Beginner Talks Volunteers

[Patrick McSweeny]

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a few volunteers to present some beginner talks at our upcoming meeting. Ideally the length would be around 30 minutes in order to make sure there isn't an information overload. The topics should be pretty basic so this would make it easy to come up with something.

You don't have to be an expert or an experienced presenter to to a beginner level talk.

Thanks,

Patrick

[Jason Rogers]

And when is the next meeting?

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[Patrick McSweeny]

March 31

http://www.meetup.com/Ann-Arbor-Ruby/events/220501213/

[Jason Rogers]

Ach! Nevermind. March 31st @ 7 PM.

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Jason Rogers

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Jason Rogers <jacae...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Julien Vanier]

Hi Patrick,

Is it more "Intro to programming", "Intro to Ruby for people that know at least basics of programming" or "How to do cool things with Ruby like deploy an application to the cloud?"

I could give a 15-minutes demo on creating a new Rails application and deploying it to Heroku, giving the names of the technologies used along the way. I find that one of the hardest things with a new environment is getting things to work the first time. Once the project is set up, doing incremental changes is something people can experiment with on their own.

Julien

[Patrick McSweeny]

Julien, that sounds like a good idea. I can put you on the schedule if you like.

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[Julien Vanier]

Hi Patrick,

I just want to confirm that I will be able to present next Tuesday.

Are there any other volunteers to present?

Julien

[Patrick McSweeny]

Julien,

Yes you are still scheduled to present. As for other volunteers Sarah Gibbons will be doing a talk on debugging and I will doing a talk on Ruby's message based syntax.

[Julien Vanier]

Patrick,

I think the topics in the RubyMonk Primer would be good to cover for a beginner Ruby talk: https://rubymonk.com/learning/books/1-ruby-primer

I can take data structures (string, array, hash, number, range) and blocks since you are doing messages (and classes I assume).

Julien

[Sunny Beach]

Any thoughts about bringing a kid to the meeting?

I have a 10 year old that is interested in programming. 

I know this content would be "advanced" but it  can be useful to show kids that there is more to programming than Scratch or simple games. 

Sunny

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[Tom Smyth]

I love that idea!

Tom Smyth

Worker-Owner, Sassafras Tech Collective

Specializing in innovative, usable tech for social change 

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[John Miller]

+1

[Patrick McSweeny]

I'm fine with kids being there but we are already bursting at the seams as far as our RSVP list is concerned so keep that in mind: http://meetu.ps/2GxzBr

[Steve Schwartz]

Hey guys, I’m feeling sick and won’t be able to make it tonight. Enjoy and let me know what I missed!

-- Steve Schwartz