I've been asked by a client to deliver a training programme for Ruby on Rails. Because of the target audience (experienced developers, but not necessarily Ruby or web programmers), I'm giving it a re-vamp.
One of my bugbears is that currently training is all back-to-front: it focuses on syntax and then at the last minute suggests you go off and discover version control, TDD, BDD, code coverage, improved security techniques, etc. So I've decided whilst giving my material a dusting off and bringing it up to date with latest Rails (it was written originally a little before 2.0, and for online-only, not for classroom stuff as well), I've decided to also re-vamp it in terms of tone and put things like TDD and version control right in at the beginning so they become habits right from the start of learning Rails. What other techniques do you think I should be putting in there? What do you know now you wish had been in that first Rails tutorial you picked up? Am I being too harsh on my students? :-) Oh, and I'm thinking that once this programme has been delivered, it might be fun to run this for free with NWRUG'ers as Guinea Pigs. It's currently set up for 3 days, but will be re-vamped to go to 6 days of classroom time plus assignments, so it might be a 6-week course of Saturdays along with some moddle stuff. If it were free, would people be interested in becoming a guinea pig and helping me improve the material so I could go and sell it? -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU Correspondence: 55 Velvet Court, Granby Row, Manchester, M1 7AB --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nwrug-members@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
