From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T13:35:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Making a scripting tutorial

Vincent Foley wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am part of a Linux User Group in Quebec, and I would like to make a
> presentation one day about Ruby.  Since most people there are not
> programmers, but mostly system administrators and that most of them
> know nothing about scripting beyond piping a command into grep, I
> thought it would be a nice opportunity to show them Ruby and how it can
> help them in their everyday tasks.
> 
> Now, I would like to know, what sort of material I should cover for an
> introduction?  Is there already material out there that I could ues?  I
> will definitly need an introduction to Ruby, its syntax, etc. that is
> as concise and clear as possible.  My plan of the tutorial right now
> would be something along the lines of:

Over how many days?  You've listed quite a bit of material to present to 
non-programmers.

You might do best to show enough about scripting in general, very 
high-level, and some Ruby in particular, so as to generate interest in 
further exploration.

James


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