Thanks for attending Ruby on Rails last night!

[Lenore Kubie]

Hello everyone!

Thank you for attending last night’s Ruby on Rails crash course. We were thrilled with the turnout! I hope you all enjoyed getting your feet wet with Ruby on Rails.

If you’d like to start hanging out more with TechTalk Laramie and/or you’re interested in attending more programming sessions and our upcoming hackathon, we encourage you to join our mailing list. You can do so by clicking this link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/techtalklaramie/join

I highly encourage you to practice your new skills on your own and at your own pace!

Codecademy ( https://www.codecademy.com ) is great because it is free and has so many diverse tutorials. While you can jump right into their “Learn Ruby on Rails” course, it also has resources for learning more fundamental programming and many different languages. If you’re a newly fledged coding-fiend and conquer the ruby on rails tutorial, you should also check out the jQuery and Git tutorials Codecademy has! That way you are super-confident for our next crash-course!

If you need to install rails on your computer because you didn’t last night, this website has a great step-by-step tutorial for installing rails for different operating systems: http://installrails.com/.

Still stuck? Ask us!  Just want to hang out with us more and be more involved? Join us! We have a Slack team that you are welcome to come hang out in! Don’t know what Slack is? It’s a messaging application that’s great for programming because it lets your paste code right into the chat! It’s like AIM or IRC but different… am I dating myself? I have opened our Slack team up to anyone with an *@uwyo.edu email address. If you want to sign up with an email address with a different domain (e.g. *@gmail.com) you need to be sent an email invite to join the slack team. If that’s the case, just shoot me and email and I’ll be happy to send an invite your way! We will probably rely on it heavily in preparation for and during the hackathon.

You can download slack here: https://slack.com/downloads/ It’s also available as an app for smart phones.

If you have an @uwyo.edu email address you can join us now! https://techtalklaramie.slack.com/signup

Upcoming events:

-Tuesday, April 18th: Git and jQuery Crash course

-Friday, April 28 5PM to Sunday April 30 5PM Hackathon!

Best,

Lenore 

Lenore Kubie, PhD

Token female programmer

[Emma-Jane Alexander]

it sounds like i missed a fantastic session last night! well done everyone, whether you were leading or learning! please may i ask if there is still the non technical session happening in parallel, for those not looking for technical components? and do you still use the 15 minute time frame also? the idea of the slack channel is great, id love to join.

i had a little thought i wanted to share with the group with regard to the development of content for the hackathon. because essentially (as i understand it) the individual participants will be contributing towards an open source tool (in their own time), id like to suggest to anyone with an employer to check that being involved in development of such a tool, revolving around competitive tuition will not put them in contravene with their current employment contract. so for example uw employees would look here to check that they can indeed participate, without the need to declare the interest. http://www.uwyo.edu/generalcounsel/_files/docs/uw-reg-updates-2017/uw-reg-4-2.pdf

techtalk laramie is such a fantastic group to get off the ground, the interest and involvement so far has been great. let's keep on it, and grow it! thanks to all :-)

i hope make the next session,

all the best

ej

Emma-Jane Alexander
emmajane....@gmail.com

USA 307-343-2926

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