Seattle’s First

RailsBridge

Ruby on Rails (RoR) Workshop

Why Are We Here?

Ruby Community

Women in Computing

Learning Something Cool!

Ruby Community

Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto

“I believe people want to express themselves when they program. They don't want to fight with the language. Programming languages must feel natural to programmers. I tried to make people enjoy programming and concentrate on the fun and creative part of programming when they use Ruby”. – Matz 2001

Seattle.rb

Ryan Davis – ryand-ruby@zenspider.com

Open Hacking Night: Every Tuesday

Where: Usually Vivace Cafe on Broadway and Republican.

When: 7 PM - whenever (9ish)

Women in Computing

1842: Ada Lovelace - analyst of Charles Babbage's analytical engine and described as the "first computer programmer”

1965: Mary Allen Wilkes - first developer of an operating system (LAP) for the first minicomputer (LINC)

1949: Grace Hopper - first programmer of the Harvard Mark I, known as the "Mother of COBOL". Developed the first ever compiler for an electronic computer known as A-0.

Women in Computing

Where are they Today?

DevChix

AWC

GeekGirls

LinuxChix

Look Around You!

Learn Something Cool!

What is Ruby on Rails?

Why Should You Care?

Who Uses RoR?

What is RoR?

Ruby is a language

Rails is a Framework

Web Apps

Why Should You Care?

Useful Tools!

Geek-Out!

Build Something!

Think Differently!

Work Together!

Who Uses RoR?

Twitter

Shopify

Shop It To Me

Oakley

Groupon

Hulu

Hark

Penny Arcade

SlideShare

YellowPages

Where Do I Start?

HERE!

Today’s Curriculum:

http://www.wiki.devchix.com/index.php?title=Rails_3_Curriculum

Wireless:

Saturday Schedule

       ▪       10:30-11:20 session 1 (Build and Deploy, Make it Your Own)       ▪       11:30-12:20 session 2 (A Closer Look, Adding Topics)       ▪       12:30-1:30 lunch       ▪       1:30-2:20 session 3 (Routes, Creating a Topic)       ▪       2:30-3:20 session 4 (The Topics Page, Allowing Voting)       ▪       3:30-4pm large group wrap up (What's Next?)