From: Space Ship Traveller <space.ship.traveller@...>
Date: 2010-03-15T16:36:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Why teach Ruby in the classroom?

Dear David,

Thanks.

I will certainly be including a link to this fantastic site.

Kind regards,
Samuel

On 15/03/2010, at 8:04 PM, David Masover wrote:

> On Sunday 14 March 2010 10:37:46 pm Space Ship Traveller wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>> 
>> I'm working on an educational project. Part of this has involved writing a
>> report about why Ruby is (would be) a good language in an educational
>> context.
>> 
>> I'm currently developing this report, and am looking for feedback.
> 
> I don't know where it would fit, but you might mention Try Ruby:
> 
> http://tryruby.org/
> 
> Type 'help' to bring up the brilliant tutorial. So easy my mother can follow 
> it. The fact that the interactive shell exists -- that alone is a reason to 
> choose Ruby over any language without such a shell. (BlueJ provides a shell 
> for Java, but it's hideous.)
>