Ruby Monstas
Welcome
What is Ruby Monstas?
Completely free introductory Ruby course for women
We want to bring more women to tech
We want to motivate you to learn to code
We want you to have fun learning to code
Who are we coaches?
(Former) Ruby Monstas participants
Professional software developers
(Former) Ruby Monstas participants
Marion Neuenschwander
Martina Friker
Hana Harencarova
Nikoleta Doykova
Professional software developers
Ferdinand Niedermann
Marion Schleifer
Thomas Ritter
Mario Schüttel
Dimiter Petrov
Mischa Steiner
Who are you?
What's your name?
What do you do?
What's your motivation to learn Ruby?
Course Schedule
Weekly meetups
Course 'starts' every first Monday of the month
Course 'ends' never ;-)
(Almost) every Monday at 18:30 (see: Meetup)
Course procedure
Dozens of topics
We adapt to who comes each week (coaches and participants)
Don't worry about skipping meetups. You can always pick up from where you are
Meetup procedure
We present slides for a topic (lecture)
And/or practice using the exercise sheets (one or more per topic)
How to use the slides
These slides are a bit special: They can be nested vertically!
Use Space to go to the next slide, not →.
Hardware lending
ThinkPad laptops available for lending
All necessary software pre-installed for you
For individual meetups or longer term
Buying possible at cost
What will I get out of the course?
Depends a lot on you!
Have a good understanding of the Ruby programming language
Know how to use it to solve actual problems
Understand how to programs work in general and Ruby specifically
Success Story: Hana
Is building a web application for managing her paragliding school
Success Story: Nikoleta
Is building app in Rails and is learning Java as next programming language.
Success Story: Martina
Built the code4school website
Success Story: Marion
Built a members-only web application for her choir
What questions do you have so far?