Ruby-based intro programming course?

ruby-talk
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I'm considering switching from C++ to Ruby in our CS1 course. Does
anyone know of places this has been tried? Is it working?

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On 5/5/07, Tom Payne <thp@orpheus.cs.ucr.edu> wrote:

I'm considering switching from C++ to Ruby in our CS1 course. Does
anyone know of places this has been tried? Is it working?

Pat Eyler's old post could get you started. See here -

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Satish Talim

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Hi,

Tom Payne wrote:

I'm considering switching from C++ to Ruby in our CS1 course. Does
anyone know of places this has been tried? Is it working?

FWIW, some background material:

  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/184541

Regards,

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Bil Kleb
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov

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Sorry if this OT but following some of the links given in this thread
I just discovered this.

http://hacketyhack.net/

Amazing that I have not read about this before here!

Cheers
Robert

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--
You see things; and you say Why?
But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
-- George Bernard Shaw

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It's kind of new and a bit confusing at times due to art.

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On May 6, 2007, at 1:28 AM, Robert Dober wrote:

Sorry if this OT but following some of the links given in this thread
I just discovered this.

http://hacketyhack.net/

Amazing that I have not read about this before here!

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> Sorry if this OT but following some of the links given in this thread
> I just discovered this.
>
> http://hacketyhack.net/
>
> Amazing that I have not read about this before here!

It's kind of new and a bit confusing at times due to art.

Really, we are just in 0.4, I think it has great value.
Why is a hack of a hecker, or something like that :wink:

Cheers
Robert

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On 5/5/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:

On May 6, 2007, at 1:28 AM, Robert Dober wrote:

--
You see things; and you say Why?
But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
-- George Bernard Shaw