From: Paul van Tilburg <paul@...>
Date: 2004-09-26T20:44:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Programming Language Tutor

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 03:19:31AM +0900, Brian Schroeder wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 01:51:58 +0900, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > | (10..15).each do |i| puts i end
> > because it's common style to use { ... } for one-liners.
> 
> I saw a style guide that proposed using { ... } for blocks without side
> effects and do ... end for blocks with side effects. This conveys more
> information and I really like and use it.

Side effects as in: modifying other (instance, class, non-local) variables 
instead of just returning anything?

> If you start right now with devising exercises, I'd like to profit from
> it, as I want to give a "real" ruby course beginning on the 4. Oktober. It
> will be four four hour sessions and I need more exercises.

OK. But I think our target group is different. Since I think our tutor
can only give help to people knowing very little of progamming or OO
programming.  In the other cases, our tutor could think it knows a
better solution, while the student already found a (in his/her opinion)
superior solution which the tutor doesn't agree with.

> If you want to see what I have devised so far (attention, i'm not yet
> proud of it) see
> http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/course/

You are not proud of it? You should be, it is very nice.

> If anybody wants to take the time to look into the slides as they are now
> and correct me or point me to include other things don't heasitate.
> Creting the course material is a lot more work than I thought :/

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brian Schr�der
> http://www.brian-schroeder.de/
> 

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