From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2006-06-12T14:23:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Highschoolers?

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On 6/11/06, Nicholas Evans <OwlManAtt@owlmanatt.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not after a full-blown IDE. They'd be working under Windows, and I'm
> (perhaps wrongly) reluctant to open up the command prompt. I want to
> focus on programming, and not have to bother with Windows shell commands
> too.
>
> DrScheme worked out really well. I guess what I'm after is a nice
> frontend to irb, and if I have to, I'll write it myself (and release it
> to the world, of course!).


I think that Ruby is an excellent vehicle for teaching programming. I have a
couple of suggestions:

1) Get a copy of "Learn To Program" by Chris Pine. It does precisely what
you want to do: teach programming using Ruby. You should easily be able to
build a curriculum from the material in this book. You can find it here:

   http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_ltp/index.html

2) If you use the One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows (
http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/), it includes the FreeRIDE IDE (
http://freeride.rubyforge.org/).

Good luck!

Curt

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