Ruby for Beginners
Date and time
Description
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Join us for an introductory dive into Ruby, a beginner-friendly language used on servers in backend web development (i.e., the stuff that goes on between entering a URL and getting a web page back). In this workshop, we will walk you through the basics of the Ruby language and how to use it to set up a basic web server.
- All the tools you need to get up, running and coding with Ruby
- Ruby syntax for basic programming concepts like variables, loops, methods, strings, arrays and hashes
- The basics of how the World Wide Web works under the hood
- Setting up a simple web server and sending HTML pages to a browser
- Using your server to interact with Twitter via its API
- Please bring your own laptop (Mac, PC or Chromebook)
- Please download and install Sublime Text (Hint: the download button is on the homepage).
- Light snacks will be provided
- This event is open to all adult (18+) beginners
Anne Spalding: Prior to joining Dev Bootcamp, Anne was a professor of Computer Science at Colorado Mesa University. She brings more than 15 years of experience designing and teaching courses software development, programming, web development and mathematics. Anne thrives on helping people overcome learning obstacles to achieve their goals and she loves that she gets to do that every day here at Dev Bootcamp. Anne is also an avid mountain biker and when she’s not at work, she’s outside getting mud on her face.
