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This reminds me of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress .
How so?
Wye. ("Wye not?")
The ghost of _why returns to teach people programming & Ruby
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Re: The ghost of _why returns to teach people programming & Ruby
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Been fighting with it all day. I want to have .deb and .rpms eventually, but for now build your own Shoes seems to be the best way for Linux: https://github.com/shoes/shoes/wiki/Building-Shoes-on-Linux https://github.com/downloads/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/hackety... Yes, this is a non-answer for now. But better than nothing. :/
No problem, thanks for the links.. It says, "Shoes has to be built with Ruby 1.9.1." Is that strict, or will 1.9.2 work? Edit: Actually, I'll tell you in a minute. Update: This is a bit beyond what I was expecting. What do I do with the .shy file after shoes is installed?
Mind shooting me an email? This thread will just get lost in my HN replies... 1.9.2 should build it properly.
Re: The ghost of _why returns to teach people programming & Ruby
#13I haven't tried hackety-hack yet. But my initial assessment tells me that stuff like these are very good for people who want to learn new stuff. Is there something like this for Python?
Re: The ghost of _why returns to teach people programming & Ruby
#14I haven't tried hackety-hack yet. But my initial assessment tells me that stuff like these are very good for people who want to learn new stuff. Is there something like this for Python?
Hackety-hack is a wonderful piece of software for teaching programming. Take it from me, it's how I learned a lot of beginning knowledge.
Re: The ghost of _why returns to teach people programming & Ruby
#15I haven't tried hackety-hack yet. But my initial assessment tells me that stuff like these are very good for people who want to learn new stuff. Is there something like this for Python?
There isn't anything directly similar for Python, but eventually, Hackety will be language-agnostic. This is probably a loooong time off, though. And by probably, I mean "is."
Check out http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ if you want to learn Python from the beginning.
Re: The ghost of _why returns to teach people programming & Ruby
#16My sister has little programming experience but wants to learn to make webapps. Should I send her this or point her to some javascript stuff?
Re: The ghost of _why returns to teach people programming & Ruby
#17My sister has little programming experience but wants to learn to make webapps. Should I send her this or point her to some javascript stuff?
It depends. Two thoughts:
1: programming is programming. I'm trying to keep it about programming in general, not just Ruby specifically. You can read the lessons here[1], they're written in a simple DSL.
2: Webapps have both a server side and a client side component. I doubt that she'll be starting off with Node.js, eh? It could be because I'm a back-end kinda guy, but I'd rather start with simple, more old-school apps before getting into javascript heavy AJAXy client-side ones. YMMV.
1: https://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/tree/master/lesso...
Re: The ghost of _why returns to teach people programming & Ruby
#18I just finished all of the lessons. Great stuff.
I'd like to find out more about how to contribute, whether content, marketing, etc. I think it's spot on for simple step by step "learn by doing" approach to beginner programming.
I think there are a lot of possibilities...
Re: The ghost of _why returns to teach people programming & Ruby
#19Aww... you got my hopes up for _why's return and you reminded me how much I missed his contributions to the ruby community.
If you're out there somewhere _why, please come back. We miss you.
Re: The ghost of _why returns to teach people programming & Ruby
#20I just finished all of the lessons. Great stuff. I'd like to find out more about how to contribute, whether content, marketing, etc. I think it's spot on for simple step by step "learn by doing" approach to beginner programming. I think there are a lot of possibilities...
Hey vnchr, thanks!
Can you send me an email, and we'll talk about it? Its' in my profile.