1. Intro To Ruby
A day of coding by women, for women

2. Goals for the day
Have fun
Learn some Ruby
Pair program
Build a project
Resources to keep learning

3. What is programming?

4. What is programming?
Creating a set of instructions that
computers use to perform specific
operations or to exhibit desired
behaviors ... operations are generally
performed on a set of input data and the
result of the operations is output in
some format

5. What is programming?
Instructions
Creating a set of instructions that
computers use to perform specific
operations or to exhibit desired
behaviors ... operations are generally
performed on a set of input data and the
result of the operations is output in
some format

6. What is programming?
Instructions
Creating a set of instructions that
computers use to perform specific
operations or to exhibit desired
behaviors ... operations are generally
Input
performed on a set of input data and the
result of the operations is output in
some format

7. What is programming?
Instructions
Creating a set of instructions that
computers use to perform specific
operations or to exhibit desired
behaviors ... operations are generally
Input
performed on a set of input data and the
result of the operations is output in
Output
some format

8. Why Program?

9. Why Program?
Automate : Households, Cars, Science
Create: Art, Music, Design
Innovate
Communicate
Change the WORLD!!

10. How to learn?

11. How to learn?
WHAT

12. How to learn?
WHAT

13. I want to be a Web Developer..

14. I want to be a Web Developer..

15. I want to be a Web Developer..

16. I want to learn Ruby

17. Pair Programming
What is it?
How do I do it?
Why it works.

18. Exercises and Projects
Work through Mini Ruby Introduction
Build the Texter Program (Iterations 1 ... ? )

19. What did your learn?
Input, Output, Processing
Ruby Basics:
Numbers, Strings, Methods, Arrays, Loops, ...
Pairing
Networking

20. What next?
Get setup on your own computer
Take online classes and tutorials
Ruby Monk
Hartl
SF Resources