[dynamic-lang] Meeting topic: "Teach Me Ruby"

[Catherine Devlin]

Hi, SIG guys!  I just got back from PyCon...  I'm happy, so happy.  What a
blast.  :)

And I got an idea for April, or whenever our next empty meeting slot is.  I
want to lead a session called "Teach Me Ruby".

Because I don't know Ruby.

Got that?

It's a new, incredibly awesome teaching technique which (AFAIK) was invented
on Saturday at PyCon.  You can read about it on my blog:

http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/2008/03/teach-me-twisted.html

Basically, the person leading the discussion *doesn't* know the topic.
Instead, she asks questions to the experts and makes them talk her through
the task - on her own terms.

I need promises from at least two people to promise to come and play the
role of Ruby experts, though.  ("Expert" can be rather broadly defined here
as "knowing a lot more about Ruby than me", which isn't a very tall
hurdle.)  Alternately, I could lead Teach Me PHP.

Want to try it?  If we can achieve even one-tenth the awesomeness of the
PyCon version, it will be well worthwhile for everyone.

See you in April!  (Oh, and don't forget Penguicon, April 18 - 20:
http://www.penguicon.org )

-- 
- Catherine
http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/
*** PyCon 2008 * Chicago * March 13-20 * us.pycon.org ***
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