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• Why Ruby Matters • Community • Obligatory History • IRB & Rails • Resources

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Why Ruby Matters?

why learn ruby?

• it’s empowering!

• solve problems

• build stuff

• shape the world

why learn ruby over other languages?

• It’s easy

• object-oriented

• mimics real life

• It’s a great first language to learn

Rapid prototyping

• Ruby is great for quickly building robust applications

Ample Opportunities• high demand for ruby

developers

• lots of jobs

• lots of encouragement from the community

• attend conferences all over the world

“Ruby believes in empowering its programmers, giving them flexibility, freedom and power. But most of all, it believes in making programming fun for its creator”

-Matz, Creator of Ruby

Steve Wosniak

It’s not just for geniuses!

Learn to program quickly

• After two months at gSchool, we’re already building CRUD applications

• most apps on the web are crud apps.

• CRUD - Create, Read, Update, Destroy

• Ruby makes it easy to display, manipulate and interact with data

Apps made in Ruby!

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• One of the most popular places to watch your favorite TV shows, movies and Internet videos.

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• Share your slide shows with the world to educate, inform and even market your company, products or anything

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• One of the most popular places to watch your favorite TV shows, movies and Internet videos.

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• Share your slide shows with the world to educate, inform and even market your company, products or anything else.

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• The project management site that started the Ruby on Rails phenomenon.

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• Collaborative social coding hub for to better organize teams.

if you’re interested in learning more, ruby has a very supportive community that can help you…

Community

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How people start.

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Gain knowledge and friends

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Terence LeeChad Fowler

$ rspec $ rerun rackup $ roman numerals

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Obligatory: History of Ruby Slides

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Yukihiro Matsumoto"Matz"

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I really wanted a genuine object-oriented, easy-to-use scripting language. I looked, but

couldn't find one. So I decided to make it. !

-Matz 1999

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This is MatzIf you ever meet him give him a hug.

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Ruby is a powerful object oriented language.

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Server side language

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So, what’s rails?

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We haven’t officially learned rails yet

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BUT

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Rails is a super mega awesome tool that basically

makes twitter with three clicks.

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But Really

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Rails is a framework to quickly startup a web

application

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Matz is still working on Ruby full-time.

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Open Source

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Ruby Core Team is mostly volunteer based

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Rails is 10 years old already and going strong

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Brad, IRB

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Resources

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Ready to start?• Why’s (poignant) Guide to

Ruby written by Why the lucky stiff

• Introductory book with comics and eclectic humor

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• Beginning Ruby by Peter Cooper

• In-depth overview of the foundations of Ruby building towards building a full Ruby application

• Learn to Program by Chris Pine

• A book that covers programming basics with many exercises

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• Practicing Ruby by Gregory Brown

• https://practicingruby.com/

• An online journal that gives an in-depth analysis of variety of topics

• Learn Ruby the Hard Way Program by Zed A. Shaw

• http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/

• A book that assumes no prior coding knowledge and provides extensive exercises to practice coding

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• http://stackoverflow.com/

• An online platform for users to ask and answer questions and to vote answers up or down

• http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/

• Online tutorials on Ruby from basic concepts to advanced

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• https://rubymonk.com/

• Free interactive ruby lessons for beginner to advanced

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• http://www.codecademy.com/

• An online interactive website that offers free coding classes

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• http://www.codewars.com/

• Fun website where you can solve crowd-sourced “katas” using code,

• http://confreaks.com/

• Website that provides videos of talks from some of the best Ruby and Ruby on Rails conferences

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Staying connected• Ruby5 by the EnvyLabs crew

• http://ruby5.envylabs.com/

• Podcast usually in the length of about 6 minutes that covers current topics, new ruby gems or interesting blog posts

• Ruby Weekly by Jeremy Clarkson & Peter Cooper

• http://rubyweekly.com/

• Weekly newsletter that covers everything from tutorials, blog articles relating to Ruby, online training, new gems to the job offers

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Fin

Mi Ji Kim @mijikim2 Jess Owens @treetopyogi Brad Scharmann @bscharm Alex McRitchie @mcritchiealex Graham McBain @grahammcbain

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