[ANN] Ruby Course 1.0

[Brian Schröder]

I just finished giving my ruby course. I removed all the bugs in the
slides and extended them with some additional themes (GUI, Test::Unit,
Assignments...), so I officially declare it version 1.0.

Feel free to use it to your liking, but please drop me a note when and
how you used it.

Regards,

Brian

[Ruby Course 2004](http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/course/)

 

[Jamis Buck]

I just finished giving my ruby course. I removed all the bugs in the
slides and extended them with some additional themes (GUI, Test::Unit,
Assignments...), so I officially declare it version 1.0.

Feel free to use it to your liking, but please drop me a note when and
how you used it.

Regards,

Brian

[Ruby Course 2004](http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/course/)

Wow! This is amazing! Thanks for a great resource--I'll be forwarding
this to my Ruby Users Group.

- Jamis

 

[Curt Hibbs]

I just finished giving my ruby course. I removed all the bugs in the
slides and extended them with some additional themes (GUI, Test::Unit,
Assignments...), so I officially declare it version 1.0.

Feel free to use it to your liking, but please drop me a note when and
how you used it.

I know I asked this once already, but I just want to be sure... I would like
to add this to the WhyRuby? repository at:

http://whyruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Ruby_Presentations

Please let me know if this is ok.

Thanks,
Curt

 

[Gavin Kistner]

[Ruby Course 2004](http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/course/)

Very nice work, Brian. (I especially like the progress bar at the
bottom

One minor note: on page 18, you say:
"A block is a piece of code, similar to an anonymous function, but it
does not open a new scope. "

This is incorrect, I think; as a closure, it inherits the previous
scope, but there certainly is a new scope:

rb(main):01> def echo(s); yield s; end
#=> nil

irb(main):02> foo = 'Hello, '
#=> "Hello, "

irb(main):03> echo(12){ |arg| arg_as_string = arg.to_s; puts foo +
arg_as_string }
Hello, 12
#=> nil

irb(main):04> arg_as_string
NameError: undefined local variable or method `arg_as_string' for
main:Object
from (irb):4

 

[Brian Schröder]

I know I asked this once already, but I just want to be sure... I would like
to add this to the WhyRuby? repository at:

http://whyruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Ruby_Presentations

Please let me know if this is ok.

Thanks,
Curt

Hello Curt,

yes. Please add it to the repository. It would be nice though, if you
could also link to my site.

Regards,

Brian

 

[Curt Hibbs]

Hello Curt,

yes. Please add it to the repository. It would be nice though, if you
could also link to my site.

Absolutely! I always credit the authors -- at a minimum by name, plus
anything alse they want (url, email, etc.). Do you want me to just use:

http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/

or did you have a specific url in mind?

Thanks,
Curt