From: Francois Paul <francois@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T16:59:14+09:00
Subject: Re: my mother wants to code?

To update on the situation:

I had a chat with everyone involved weighing Ruby and Java against each 
other and it was decided to go with Ruby.
my mother and my dad are now going through Chris' tutorial.
They are both enjoying it very much - and my dad (coming from the VB for 
applications world) is so impressed with how beautiful Ruby is.

They see learning ruby as something they can do together as a family 
activity and everytime I pop around for a visit my mom first has to show 
me her latest little program.

so ... we are steadily becoming a family of rubyists. (if only my little 
sister and my wife would take interest, but franky i think that would 
become scary (besides hell would have to freeze over first))

I think my parents are happier people (or at least they have more fun) 
today because of Ruby.
She'll probably join the list in a couple of months, when she gets a 
solid internet connection at home, and i'll introduce her then.

thanks for all the input.

-Francois


Warren Seltzer wrote:

>Actually, the most important thing is at-the-elbow tech support.  She should learn a
>language that is known by others who live in the same house.  If you're willing to pop
>over to provide Ruby help, then fine, but consider that if you live outside of her house
>it's also inconvenient for her to get answers.
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