From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-03-09T09:01:37+09:00
Subject: Re: My Ruby talk @ work..

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Stephen Waits wrote:

> I just finished my "Learn Ruby" talk for the programmers here at work. (Game 
> programmers, strong in C/C++).
>
> I flew through a massive amount of stuff.. leaving continuations and 
> metaprogramming on the table for another day.  I managed to get it done just 
> over my goal of 90 minutes (maybe 100).
>
>
> I found that the programmers who'd worked in dynamic languages previously, 
> through a University course or otherwise, followed along pretty well.  Those 
> without that experience dazed out once we got into things like lambdas.
>
> Overall though, I'm satisfied.
>
> I did my presentation in HTML generated from ERB.  I just set my browser to 
> full-screen -- it worked pretty well.  I've posted both the ERB and HTML 
> files at: http://www.waits.net/~swaits/LearnRubyTalk/
>
> I'd very much like to improve the document, so any feedback is appreciated. 
> It also might be useful to others in my situation (teaching Ruby to 
> programmers).
>
> --Steve

very nice.  i'm stealing your template.  ;-)

-a

-- 
knowledge is important, but the much more important is the use toward which it
is put.  this depends on the heart and mine the one who uses it.
- h.h. the 14th dali lama