Ruby Syllabus 2015 Notes

The current experience

What are the typical motivations for learning ruby at codebar?

Where do people get stuck?

(some of which will be things we can avoid as you can learn them later once motivation and momentum is strong, some of which are important parts of learning)

• Navigating between directory on a computer in explorer/finder and understanding that directory is also available via a Terminal.app/cmd window
• Understanding gets, blocking and inputting text into the terminal
• Understanding the difference between public, private and protected - especially protected
• How to test a CLI (automation not encouraged by the tutorial, but I have had this as a follow up question)

How well do tutorials as a format work?

• No validation of understanding - e.g. people move on to one tutorial once they've finished it, rather than assessing whether they understand it