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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