The turtle that codes

A lightning talk about coding and turtles and how these two relate to each other, given at Rails Girls Linz 2014.

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1. The turtle that codes. Nadja Lederer Rails Girls Linz, 14.6.2014 <% @ladiesandgents.each do |lAg| %> <%= lAg.stayCurious %> <%= lAg.keepOnCoding %> <% end %>
2. I like turtles. [1]
3. They set out to save our world... [2]
4. … like pizza…. [3]
5. …some of them even read code.
6. RubyTurtle
7. The “magic” behind it ¡  turtle.turn ¡  turtle.forward ¡  turtle.penUp ¡  turtle.penDown
8. RubyTurtle – go wild…
9. More tools that help learn coding
10. Light-Bot
11. Ruby-Hamster-Modell
12. What it’s like to be a developer?
13. [4]
14. ;) THANK YOU! [5]
15. References RubyTurtle: http://www.swisseduc.ch/informatik/turtles/download.html Light-Bot: http://light-bot.com/hocflash.html Ruby-Hamster-Modell: http://www-is.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~dibo/hamster/ruby.html [1] http://boncia.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/picture-of-a-sea-turtle-163.jpg [2] http://steve-lovelace.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/teenage-mutant- ninja-turtles-in-hogwarts-colors.png [3] http://www.dylancooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ngbbs4a295a544f815.gif [4] http://imgur.com/x0ml8 [5] http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/keep-calm-and-code-on-768.png