Amelia Bedelia Learns to Code

My first conference talk. Originally given as part of the beginner track at Rails Conf 2015 in Atlanta, GA.

Transcript

1. Amelia Bedelia Learns to Code Kylie Stradley Rails Conf 2015-Atlanta, GA
2. Welcome to Atlanta
3. @kyfast
4. Meet Amelia Bedelia Illustration from: “Calling Doctor Amelia Bedelia”
5. Sound Familiar?
6. Amelia the Developer Illustration from: “Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm”
7. Amelia Saves the Day Illustration from: “Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia”
9. Amelia Bedelia Learns to Code by: Kylie Stradley illustrations by: San Smith inspired by: Peggy & Herman Parish
10. 01101000 01101001 Nice to meet you :] “Talking to a computer? That sounds like fun!”
12. “_WHY Ruby? _WHY not Ruby?”
13. “This Ruby on Rails stuff is easy!”
14. So what does Amelia do?
15. Amelia edits the db/schema.rb
16. Oh no!
17. the Rails Scaffold covers most things
18. So what does Amelia do?
19. Amelia uses Rails Scaffold for everything
20. !!!!!! Got it!
21. I want to write Rails like the designers intended
22. So what does Amelia do?
23. Writing Rails like DHH would
24. !!!!!! Got it!
25. “I need to make a lot of routes”
26. So what does Amelia do?
27. Amelia rakes the routes
28. rake != activate routes != migrations
29. “These gems are pretty handy!”
30. So what does Amelia do?
31. Carrie & Fred say, “Put a gem on it!”
32. Not so fast! Got it!
33. “I know what do with params in a Rails app”
34. So what does Amelia do?
35. Amelia adds the value to the params hash
36. parameters != params oops!
37. “I’ve made that mistake with dates before too”
38. So what does Amelia do?
39. Amelia uses DateTime when she needs dates, even for cakes!
40. The End
41. that’s not really how it is though
42. it’s more like this:
43. WAT
44. these things happen
45. beginners make a lot of mistakes
46. and that’s okay
47. advanced developers make a lot of mistakes
48. and that’s okay, too
49. a place that’s safe to make mistakes is a place that’s safe to learn
50. Illustrations by: San Smith san-smith.com
51. Kylie Farrah Stradley @kyfast kyfast.net