Hackety Hack

26Apr07

_why has just released Hackety Hack, a starter kit for kids who want to learn to program. It’s Ruby and is aimed at kids 13 and over. As someone who got their first introduction to programming writing BASIC on an Apple II1 many moons ago, I think this is incredibly cool. I [...]

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Ruby Newbie at Ruby Tuesday

14Feb07

I went to my first Ruby Tuesday meeting of the Ruby Ireland user group last night at La Taverna di Bacco in the grandly named Italian Quarter1 just off Ormonde Quay here in Dublin. There was a pretty sizeable turnout for this relatively new and small but growing group. We did manage to [...]

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