From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-10-11T22:20:10+09:00
Subject: Re: my mother wants to code?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francois Paul [mailto:francois@bagasie.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 2:20 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: my mother wants to code?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> my 50 year old mother wants to learn to code.
> She has no computer experience, but she is surrounded with 
> programmers 
> (three sons and a husband) and she wants to be able to 
> understand what 
> we are talking about.
> She is also quite tired of being a math teacher and is 
> considdering to 
> quit her job in favour of helping with my webdev company (doing some 
> mundane inhouse development).

Dave Thomas just announced recently that he was looking for folks with
little or no programming experience to review a new book by Chris Pine
(October 4th, "Looking for book reviewers").

I'm guessing the book is based on Chris' online tutorial.

Regards,

Dan