Ruby Fundamentals Curriculum

This repo contains all code for the Startup Institute Ruby Fundamentals Curriculum
Please refer to the full curriculum for more details

Links to Curriculum

• Curriculum Overview
• Notes for Teachers
• Weekly Guides
  • Weekly Guide for Students
  • Weekly Guide for Teachers

Repo Contents

• Weekly Scripts for students
• Guides
  • Repl.it
  • Get faster with Hotkeys
  • Ruby Syntax List
  • Setting up your local environment
  • How to use PRY Debugger
• Example code
  • Open and read a file
  • Parse a CSV file
  • Parse a JSON file
  • Connect to a JSON API

How to make changes

Philosophy

Less is More

Strip everything that isn't strictly necessary to learn the concept.

Small Wins

Break large exercises into small components. Provide explicit steps and milestones.

Don't D.R.Y. the code

Best coding practices usually make code more abstract. Abstraction is hard follow for new students to follow. Prefer duplication.

5 Whys

When a student is confused, drive to the core of the confusion. The 5 whys technique is helpful to identify the core confusions.

Converting to student versions

1. Copy the script directory to the student scripts directory
2. Search and remove all Answers. This is currently done via Sublime regex search: # Answer(.|\n)*?# /Answer

Wish list

• Script to convert to student versions
• More example code
• More detail in weekly scripts
• One off guides need more detail