Indoctrinating the Next Generation: Teaching Ruby to Kids
summary
Argues that teaching kids Ruby works best with short, concrete goals, 15-minute iterations and visual immediate feedback; recommends installing lightweight tools and choosing based on age and time available — e.g. use Shoes or Hackety Hack for younger kids, Sinatra for older ones, or a Small Ruby Logo clone; gives a concrete classroom moment where students spent 20 minutes mixing RGB to recreate “periwinkle,” then added a periwinkle method, and stresses practice and continuous iteration.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 1:02Why?
- 2:35Why should you teach?
- 3:44Teaching: not rocket science
- 4:25Agile teaching
- 4:41Set goals
- 6:50Form a plan (but expect to adapt)
- 7:51Notice a theme?
- 8:22Your plan
- 8:53Keep iterations short
- 9:15Listen to the customer
- 12:56Deploy continuously
- 14:12To sum up
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