From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-06-04T07:45:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Teaching Ruby

On 03/06/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Somewhat related to the other thread I just started.  In order to get
> some grassroots support for Ruby, I've offered to host a couple
> tutorial meetings regarding how to use Ruby.
> 
> The backgrounds of the people who would attend are somewhat varied,
> but are currently polarized between older people (45+) who are
> strongest with Ada and C (and some know Perl), and newer people (me
> included) in their 20s who probably know more Java-ish, C++, maybe
> Python.
> 
> My goals for the meetings is to 1)  Show them the language 2)  Get
> them productive in it 3)  Show them why we should use it.
> 
> Any ideas on how to do it?
> 
> It would be great to build up a fairly complex, well-tested,
> distributed application of some sort, I think.
> 
> 

I did a course for some CS-Students a while back. You can find the material at:
http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/course/
But it may be that this is the wrong audience for it.

good luck,

Brian

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