Ruby intensive, online course for beginners: Stakes and Opportunities for Developers

Since officially November 16, 2012, registrations are open for RubyLearning’s Ruby programming course. For those who unfamiliar: according to ruby-lang.org , “Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. Ruby’s syntax aims to be natural to read and easy to write.”

During this programming course, you will learn the essential features of Ruby that you will end up using every day. You will also be introduced to Git, GitHub, HTTP concepts, RubyGems, Rack and Heroku.

In concerning Methodology:

• The Mentors shall give you URL’s of pages and sometimes some extra notes; you need to read through. Read the pre-class reading material at a convenient time of your choice, the dates mentioned are just for your guideline. While reading, please make a note of all your doubts, queries, questions, clarifications, comments about the lesson and after you have completed all the pages, post these on the forum under the relevant lesson. There could be some questions that relate to something that has not been mentioned or discussed by the mentors thus far; you could post the same too. Please remember that with every post, do mention the operating system of your computer.
• The mentor shall highlight the important points that you need to remember for that day’s session.
• There could be exercises every day. Please do them.
• Participate in the forum for asking and answering questions or starting discussions. Share knowledge, and exchange ideas among yourselves during the course period. Participants are strongly encouraged to post technical questions, interesting articles, tools, sample programs or anything that is relevant to the class / lesson. It recommends to do not post a simple "Thank you" note or "Hello" message to the forum. Please be aware that these messages are considered noises by people subscribed to the forum.

Mentors: Satish Talim, Michael Kohl, Satoshi Asakawa, Victor Goff III and others from the RubyLearning team.

Dates: The course starts on Saturday, 1st Dec. 2012 and runs for eight weeks (one week break for Christmas and New Year). For more information, go to: RubyLearning.org.

Once the course starts, you can login and start with the lessons any day and time and post your queries in the forum under the relevant lessons. Someone shall always be there to answer them. (There is no real-time ‘webcasting’.).