KidsRuby: Coding Is Fun!

This is a presentation for the Fukuoka Ruby Award Committee 2012. Thank you for considering KidsRuby for this great honor.

KidsRuby helps teach kids to write code using Ruby. To learn more, go to http://kidsruby.com

Transcript

1. KidsRuby: Coding Is Fun! Ron Evans - @deadprogram The Hybrid Group
2. Hello, Fukuoka Ruby Awards Committee!
3. Introduction
4. Kids like to have fun.
5. Kids like to play games.
6. Kids like to make their own games.
7. Ruby is a fun language.
8. Ruby is a fun way to learn to program!
9. The Birth Of A Coder
10. Many great programmers learned to code on simple computers, when they were kids.
11. Apple ][
12. TRS-80
13. Commodore 64
14. What was so great about these simple computers?
15. You turned them on, and they were ready to enter code.
16. But these days, no easy way for kids to get started!
17. That is why we created KidsRuby.
18. "Enter Your Code Here"
19. KidsRuby has a simple editor.
21. Enter the code on the left.
22. Click on the "Run" button.
23. See what happens.
24. The output from the code is displayed in the "Output" tab on the right.
25. The code is run against a "real" Ruby (currently Ruby 1.9.2).
26. That's it!
27. Lessons and Tutorials
28. There is a "Help" tab with a series of lessons on learning Ruby.
30. The KidsRuby tutorials have been written with the help of many people. Thank you!
31. We've helped to bring them all together in one place.
32. No internet connection required, so the help system is always available.
33. Turtle
34. KidsRuby includes fun and colorful turtle graphics.
36. Kids can write code that displays a visual result.
37. KidsRuby's "Turtle" is fully code compatible with Hackety- Hack.
38. And is really fun too!
39. Gosu
40. KidsRuby includes the Gosu game programming library.
42. Kids can program their own games.
43. A Gosu tutorial is included in the KidsRuby Help system.
44. International
45. KidsRuby is available now in English
46. Español
47. Français
48. 日本語
49. Thank you to the many people around the world who have helped make this possible.
50. More translations in progress...
51. Svenska
52. Português
53. Pу́сский язы́к
54. Yкраї́нська мо́ва
55. Italiano
56. And many more...
57. Our goal is to cover the globe with KidsRuby!
58. Community
59. The Ruby community loves KidsRuby!
60. KidsRuby used for classes at conferences and schools.
61. Bug reports, pull requests, and translations.
62. Ignition Grant Presentation to KidsRuby at RailsConf 2012
63. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=7B61q7Rzx48
64. Most importantly, kids are having fun with KidsRuby
65. http://instagram.com/p/Lon6uip_C_/
66. Kids love KidsRuby!
67. http://twitpic.com/9xhxog
68. How KidsRuby Is Made
69. Written using Ruby, so easy to contribute back to KidsRuby.
71. Built using Ruby 1.9.2
72. QtRuby
73. JavaScript
74. HTML/CSS
75. Standalone Installers
76. Need to make it easy for kids to install without help.
77. Windows
78. OSX
79. Debian (Ubuntu + ...)
80. Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)
81. Robots
82. Robots might be even more fun to kids than games.
83. Added support for Sphero robot at RubyConf 2012 in Denver
84. Thanks to @tenderlove @wycats @m_seki @jimweirich & @kiafaldorius
85. Just in time to use KidsRuby to program 40 Sphero robots the next day!
86. https://twitter.com/coderjonny/statu s/265213691404886016/photo/1
87. KidsRuby installers now have built-in support for the Sphero robot.
88. More robots will be added soon...
89. The Future Of KidsRuby
90. The future is bright for Ruby
91. The future is bright for KidsRuby
92. More language translations
93. More lessons
94. More robots
95. More fun
96. KidsRuby 2.0? Yes!
97. Thank you, Fukuoka Ruby Awards Committee
98. kidsruby.com Thank You! @deadprogram