From: Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>
Date: 2006-03-09T12:03:21+09:00
Subject: Re: My Ruby talk @ work..

On 3/8/06, Stephen Waits <steve@waits.net> 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).

I like the way you mixed in a little mixin humor.

"Little Miss Mixins, you are a skanky friend-with-benefits."

--
R. Mark Volkmann
Partner, Object Computing, Inc.