Amelia Bedelia Learns to Code-Eurucamp

These are the slides I used while presenting at Eurucamp 2015 in Potsdam.

Transcript

1. Amelia Bedelia Learns to Code Kylie Stradley Eurucamp 2015-Potsdam
2. @kyfast
3. I’m not here to tell you about me though
4. Meet Amelia Bedelia Illustration from: “Calling Doctor Amelia Bedelia”
5. any current or former children in the audience?
6. Meet Amelia Bedelia Illustration from: “Calling Doctor Amelia Bedelia”
7. idiom > sum of its parts
8. “Take a hike!”
10. Amelia Does Her Best Illustration from: “Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia”
11. Sound Familiar?
12. Amelia, Beginner Developer Illustration from: “Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm”
14. Amelia Bedelia Learns to Code by: Kylie Stradley illustrations by: San Smith inspired by: Peggy & Herman Parish
15. 01101000 01101001 Nice to meet you :] “Talking to a computer? That sounds like fun!”
17. “_WHY Ruby? _WHY not Ruby?”
18. “This Ruby on Rails stuff is easy!”
19. So what does Amelia do?
20. Amelia edits the db/schema.rb
21. Oh no!
22. the Rails Scaffold covers most things
23. So what does Amelia do?
24. Amelia uses Rails Scaffold for everything
25. Not so fast! Got it!
26. I want to write Rails like the designers intended
27. So what does Amelia do?
28. Writing Rails like DHH would
29. Not so fast! Got it!
30. “I need to make a lot of routes”
31. So what does Amelia do?
32. Amelia rakes the routes
33. rake != activate routes != migrations
34. “These gems are pretty handy!”
35. So what does Amelia do?
36. Carrie & Fred say, “Put a gem on it!”
37. Not so fast! Got it!
38. “I know what do with params in a Rails app”
39. So what does Amelia do?
40. Amelia adds the value to the params hash
41. parameters != params oops!
42. “I’ve made that mistake with dates before too”
43. So what does Amelia do?
44. Amelia uses DateTime when she needs dates, even for cakes!
45. The End
46. what a nice story, right?
47. it’s more like this: you never really stop making mistakes
48. I certainly haven’t
49. these things happen
50. beginners make a lot of mistakes
51. and that’s okay
52. advanced developers make a lot of mistakes
53. and that’s okay, too
54. what is important is that we share our mistakes
55. you never really stop making mistakes
56. a place that’s safe to make mistakes is a place that’s safe to learn
57. Illustrations by: San Smith san-smith.com The End
58. @kyfast Kylie Farrah Stradley