Thanks Laurie, I finally had a chance to look at this well written Tutorial.
The language creator stresses that system design needs to emphasize human,
rather than computer needs. Nice :-)
Wikipedia has a nice summary about the Ruby programming language if anybody
is curious and wants to brush up the background. Seems to be similar to
Python and Pearl (ala the reference to a gemstone)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_programming_language
I smiled when I read where Ruby is said to make use of POLS (Principal of
Least Surprise)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_surprise
Regards Roland
On 16/07/07, Laurie Savage <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Ruby is free, simple and installable on Windows machines. It is
> preinstalled with MacOSX and Linux. Here is a
> lovely tutorial written by Daniel Carrerra. If the attachment
> doesn't arrive or you can't open a tar.gz (Winzip understands)
> here is a link.
>
> http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/
>
> Laurie
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 07:39:45AM +1000, Lappin, Jason M mentioned:
> > Hi List
> > I have just started to panic!
> > I have just been handed a Year 11 ICT class for all of term 3 and have
> just finished going through the course outline and realised that we do not
> have any programming software on the school network. I am sure I would be
> able to purchase some but it would have to be cheap.
> > Does anyone out there have a series of tutorials that can help me teach
> myself and the kids some programming.
> > I know that this is at late notice but I have reading the year 12 list
> and the people on there have been extremely generous.
> > Thanks in anticipation.
> > Cheers
> > Jason Lappin
> > *NEW* Yera 11 ICT Teacher - Rutherglen High School
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen
> > Sent: Fri 13/07/2007 3:32 PM
> > To: Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] Interesting pen type
> interface
> >
> >
> > Do you mean this one? ROTFL
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQL9V2dnKFY
> >
> > Greg! Very good! I will add that to my growing collection to bring to
> school.
> >
> > Regards Roland
> >
> >
> > On 13/07/07, Greyruin <greyruin at gdurkin.com> wrote:
> >
> > Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> > > Here is a video of an interesting pen based interface. Nice eye
> candy
> > > but I must admit to still wondering it will really improve my
> > > productivity or make my computer desktop look as messy as my
> real
> > > desktop.
> > >
> > OK - I confess that, at first, I thought this was a send-up, so I
> > checked their website. I've read it thoroughly and I'm still none
> the
> > wiser. If it IS for real, though, Ananda Agarawala and co appear
> to be
> > post-doctoral graduates of the Microsoft Academy of Vapourware
> since not
> > even their FAQ has been written yet. {Well, of course, you can't
> answer
> > the frequently asked questions if nobody has had a chance to ask
> any
> > questions at all, such as, for example, "Are you guys for real or
> what?"}
> >
> > That said, though, I rather like the idea. Have you checked out
> the
> > parody site? The link is on the "BumpTop" website.
> >
> > Hmmmmmm
> > Greg Durkin
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