It's like we're both building the same company here, Paul! Parfait is also currently building a BDD with Rails course, in association with a large Rails company that I can't yet mention (sorry). I'll let you all know when it's ready and you can all have a choice of guinea pig projects.
Good luck, Paul. Cheers - Jamie van Dyke - Parfait On 7 Oct 2008, at 11:48, Paul Robinson wrote: > I've been asked by a client to deliver a training programme for Ruby > on Rails. Because of the target audience (experienced developers, but > not necessarily Ruby or web programmers), I'm giving it a re-vamp. > > One of my bugbears is that currently training is all back-to-front: it > focuses on syntax and then at the last minute suggests you go off and > discover version control, TDD, BDD, code coverage, improved security > techniques, etc. > > So I've decided whilst giving my material a dusting off and bringing > it up to date with latest Rails (it was written originally a little > before 2.0, and for online-only, not for classroom stuff as well), > I've decided to also re-vamp it in terms of tone and put things like > TDD and version control right in at the beginning so they become > habits right from the start of learning Rails. > > What other techniques do you think I should be putting in there? What > do you know now you wish had been in that first Rails tutorial you > picked up? Am I being too harsh on my students? :-) > > Oh, and I'm thinking that once this programme has been delivered, it > might be fun to run this for free with NWRUG'ers as Guinea Pigs. It's > currently set up for 3 days, but will be re-vamped to go to 6 days of > classroom time plus assignments, so it might be a 6-week course of > Saturdays along with some moddle stuff. If it were free, would people > be interested in becoming a guinea pig and helping me improve the > material so I could go and sell it? > > -- > Paul Robinson > > http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 > > Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 > Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU > Correspondence: 55 Velvet Court, Granby Row, Manchester, M1 7AB > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
