[LRUG] It begins!

[Murray Steele]

On 17/04/07, Suw Charman <suw.charman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I guess one thing to ascertain is what type of beginners we have? As I
> see it, there are two types:
>
> - developers who know another language and want to now learn Ruby/RoR
> - people who don't know any languages and are starting with Ruby/RoR


Good point.

I think they'd need different approaches. For example, the subjects
> you've suggested are already too advanced for me but probably aren't
> for others. I could do with a really basic introduction, but that
> might be too ground-level for others.


Maybe as an alternative to my suggest-a-subject approach we could have some
small group tutoring sessions?  E.g. someone takes a group of the new to
programming beginners and they all huddle round a desk with a laptop and go
through some excercises or just answer questions that the group want
answered.  Someone else can do the same with the new to ruby group, and then
someone else with the new to RoR group, etc...

Of course, when I talk about groups here, it doesn't matter if the group is
just one person, we want everyone to get *something* out of the evening.
Remember, LRUG is run pretty much on a "if someone asks for something, or
volunteers to do something, we'll do it" basis, I don't see why this
shouldn't apply to these "beginner"* sessions too.

Muz

* That's "beginner" in quotes, as I'm fairly sure that everyone would
benefit from hearing someone else explain some aspect of ruby, even if it
just makes lets them confirm their own understanding.

Suw
>
> On 4/17/07, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As mentioned on the other thread, and at the meeting last night, there's
> > quite a bit of support for a beginners session for Ruby or Rails (or
> both).
> > I think a beginners session would be quite nice for next months meeting
> > (14th May) to give a little back to everyone confused by the fairly
> complex
> > discussions we've had at the last couple of meetings.
> >
> > What would people be interested in covering in a beginners session?
> > Obviously a beginner session could cover all manner of stuff, but maybe
> a
> > more focused session, covering a couple of topics in detail would be
> more
> > useful.  We could even split the group into 3 or 4 mini groups that
> cover
> > something different each.  I don't know what would work best or what
> people
> > would prefer.
> >
> > So, "beginners", tell the list what you'd be particularly interested in
> > hearing about and maybe some of us "begunners" can reply with either a
> bit
> > more info for you to help you straight away, or offers to lead a mini
> group
> > in exploring that facet of ruby.
> >
> > For example, two things from the meeting last night that could be
> considered
> > for a beginner session might be:
> >
> > 1. Blocks, Procs, binding and such-like (from the discussion after
> Paolo's
> > talk last night, although this discussion might be going on in the other
> > thread as I type this)
> >
> > 2. Routing in Rails (sort of from the end of the discussion about REST
> last
> > night, cover the basics like map.connect, map.resource, but also the
> weird
> > bits like regexp conditions or /* )
> >
> > Anyway, don't be shy, let us know what you want (even if that is
> > "everything"), and we'll do our best to cover it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Muz
> >
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