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Amelia Bedelia Learns to Code Kylie Stradley

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@kyfast

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I’m not here to tell you about me though

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Illustration from: http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/kids/gamesandcontests/features/amelia/ One Ring inscription by Sauron, Mt Doom

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any current or former children in the audience?

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Meet Amelia Bedelia Illustration from: “Calling Doctor Amelia Bedelia”

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idiom > sum of its parts

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“Take a hike!”

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Amelia Does Her Best Illustration from: “Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia”

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Sound Familiar?

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Amelia, Beginner Developer Illustration from: “Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm”

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Amelia Bedelia Learns to Code by: Kylie Stradley illustrations by: San Smith inspired by: Peggy & Herman Parish

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01101000 01101001 Nice to meet you :] “Talking to a computer? That sounds like fun!”

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“_WHY Ruby? _WHY not Ruby?”

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“This Ruby on Rails stuff is easy!”

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So what does Amelia do?

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Amelia edits the db/schema.rb

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Oh no!

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the Rails Scaffold covers most things

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So what does Amelia do?

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Amelia uses Rails Scaffold for everything

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Not so fast! Got it!

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I want to write Rails like the designers intended

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So what does Amelia do?

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Writing Rails like DHH would

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Not so fast! Got it!

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“I need to make a lot of routes”

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So what does Amelia do?

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Amelia rakes the routes

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rake != activate routes != migrations

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“These gems are pretty handy!”

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So what does Amelia do?

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Carrie & Fred say, “Put a gem on it!”

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Not so fast! Got it!

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“I know what do with params in a Rails app”

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So what does Amelia do?

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Amelia adds the value to the params hash

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parameters != params oops!

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“I’ve made that mistake with dates before too”

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So what does Amelia do?

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Amelia uses DateTime when she needs dates, even for cakes!

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The End

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what a nice story, right?

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it’s more like this: you never really stop making mistakes

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I certainly haven’t

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these things happen

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beginners make a lot of mistakes

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and that’s okay

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advanced developers make a lot of mistakes

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and that’s okay, too

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what is important is that we share our mistakes

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you never really stop making mistakes

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a place that’s safe to make mistakes is a place that’s safe to learn

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Illustrations by: San Smith san-smith.com The End

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@kyfast Kylie Farrah Stradley