From: Curso Ruby on Rails <cursorubyonrails@...>
Date: 2011-12-23T16:20:51+09:00
Subject: Re: new curse in spanish for beginning ruby on rails

Thanks a lot for your helpful opinion

Pedro
El 23/12/2011, a las 00:27, Dave Aronson escribió:

> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 17:38, Curso Ruby on Rails
> <cursorubyonrails@maccompass.es> wrote:
> 
>> As far as I have seen, to learn ruby on rails you need to know
>> several web programing languages as HTML, XHTML, XML,
>> CSS, JavaScript, PHP, AJAX, MySQL, JQuerry, Python, Ruby
>> and finally Ruby on Rails.
> 
> I disagree.  I barely knew CSS when I started with RoR, still don't
> know PHP, have only recently learned the basics of JQuery, and haven't
> seen any need at all in RoR for XHTML, XML, or Python.  It's perfectly
> possible to do quite a lot in RoR without knowing JavaScript or AJAX,
> though they do help make good responsive sites.  You could come into
> RoR knowing basic HTML and be pretty well set to start learning RoR,
> picking up what little JS or CSS or Ruby you need along the way.
> 
>> So I am creating this new course which will be in spanish from zero.
> 
> As in, teaching all of the above?  That sounds rather daunting.
> 
>> My question is : What is your opinion? Do you think all this will be
>> necessary to be a really well prepared programer for ruby on rails?
> 
> An admirable goal, but not necessary.  There are plenty of RoR books
> that assume the reader knows HTML and the general concepts of
> programming, and teach them just enough of everything else along the
> way.  Or at the very least, expose them to little enough of it that a
> decently intelligent person can learn what they need by Googling.  I
> think if you take that approach, and develop a good course in Spanish,
> that would be a great service to the world.
> 
> Alternately, and probably easier than developing a course from
> scratch, you could translate some of the more popular tutorials into
> Spanish, if that hasn't been done yet.
> 
> -Dave
> 
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