Ruby classes will be taught by Liah Hansen and Sarah Allen. Blazing Cloud is offering two classes, both on Sunday afternoons, for six sessions: March 7 - April 18th. (Note: class will not be held April 4th.) Also, note that Sarah is teaching a full week of classes on Ruby and Rails March 15-19 (details below).
Ruby for Programmers, Sundays 2-4pm
This class is designed for people with programming experience in another language or who have been introduced to Ruby through Rails and want to learn more Ruby.
In this class we will focus on learning the Ruby language through exploratory development and test-first teaching. Weekly homework assignments will provide hands-on reinforcement of concepts. We will dive deeply into Objects and Classes and cover Modules, Arrays, Hashes, String, Regular Expressions, and do practical things in the file system and over http. You will build a gem!
You will receive a book, “The Well-Grounded Rubyist” by David Black, which will supplement the class instruction. All other proceeds will go toward paying instructors and covering the facilities. We don’t have refunds set up, but if you sign up and can’t make it we’ll certainly see what we can do to connect you to someone else who may be interested.
Learn to Program, Sundays 4:30-6:30pm
This is an introductory Ruby class for people who are new to programming or have up to a year of programming experience in another language. We will be using the book “Learn to Program” by Chris Pine and using test-first teaching exercises. There class will meet for 2 hours and there will be homework and reading assignments in between the classes. Everyone must bring their own laptop.
Kids are welcome as students! However, if they are 12 or under, they must bring a grown-up.
You will receive a book which will supplement the class instruction. All other proceeds will go toward paying instructors and covering the facilities. We don’t have refunds set up, but if you sign up and can’t make it we’ll certainly see what we can do to connect you to someone else who may be interested.
Ruby and Rails — full day classes March 15-19
Sarah Allen is also teaching a full week of Ruby and Rails at Marakana in March. There will be a 2 day Ruby class and 3 day Rails class, or you can sign up for both.
Scholarships
To apply for a scholarship for any of the classes, please fill out this form.