I taught a week-long class this summer for gifted and talented kids. We used Ruby Warrior on Ubuntu systems, so a good bit of the material was too basic for a class like this. However, we used Chris Pine's Learn To Program book, and it was a big hit.
Also, to get started we needed a new version of Ruby installed on every box. Too lazy to it myself, I made a page and had every kid copy/paste it into a terminal window. It's a great way to get them to do something, then tell them what they're doing while it's going on. http://fairanswers.com/cbk/rvm.html Joe On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Jeff Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > Before I was a full-time Ruby developer, I trained school teachers and fellow > developers in web development (HTML, Javascript and Ruby). It was a lot of > fun, and I'd like to do it again. I would love to help put together a Ruby > Bootcamp. > > - Jeff Sutherland > -----Original Message----- > From: Marty Haught <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:26:00 > To: bdrg<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Boulder Ruby Group] PROMISCUOUS PAIR PROGRAMMING FOR ALL! > >> Open question to anyone in a similar vein. What do we have for training in >> the area? I would imagine basic Ruby, Rails, and other training would be of >> interest and fairly valuable. > > As far as I know, the only public training available regularly is the > Pragmatic Studio. I fully agree that having some other alternatives > would be very useful. I have even thought about putting something > together as I've done a couple private training sessions but it's a > lot of work. Furthermore, I'm not sure if I want to become a trainer > as sorts but maybe it would be better for the local community if > someone did. > > Now that I don't have conference organizing taking all of my free > time, I could ponder putting together a Ruby Bootcamp program. I was > originally thinking something that met weekly in the evenings and > lasted for around 6 weeks. > > The other thought along this line was to take on an apprentice to work > with me on my next project. Though I would only be willing to take on > one, it would be very beneficial to that one developer. Doing a Ruby > Bootcamp would help more people in a shorter time frame (the > apprenticeship would likely be a 3 month thing). > > Just thinking out loud here. > > Cheers, > Marty > _______________________________________________ > Bdrg-members mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > _______________________________________________ > Bdrg-members mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > -- "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’." - Edward Tufte _______________________________________________ Bdrg-members mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members
