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The Good Rubyist Challenge by Schneems

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Challenge:

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(verb) to invite someone to engage in a contest

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To be a good Rubyist

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You must best yourself

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They Call me @Schneems

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Ruby Schneems

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Ruby Python

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What would you say you “do” here?

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Maintain buildpack

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Handle Ruby ticket escalations

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Open Source Software Contribution

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Write and maintain docs

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My spanish story

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I’m here to deliver the truths!

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First

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Close your Laptops

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Unless you’re commenting on rails/rails issues

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How do you learn Ruby?

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How do you learn Anything?

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You must want to write Ruby

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People do not want to use tools

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People want to build

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No one wants to Hammer

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They want to build a house

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They learn to use a tool to accomplish a goal

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Adjunct Professor

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Tired of lectures

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timesHigherEducation.co.uk

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news.yahoo.com

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Speaking at conferences works Source: me

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Learning requires a feedback cycle

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Want Try Do Reflect

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Most of learning focuses on the how

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Focus on the “how-come”

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Course time:

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Does anyone know?

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So Crates

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Hated Lectures

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Socratic Method

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1. Find an Argument

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“TDD Is 
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2. Make a challenge statement

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Panda Schneems Used TDD Yesterday “

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3. Change Statement to be true for challenge

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TDD isn’t the only software development method “

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4. Challenge the changed statement with a ???

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Can you write good software without TDD? “

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Repeat

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Truth: a statement that holds up to all scrutiny

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Socrates and the Oracle

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Nope

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Nope

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Yup

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“Socrates is the wisest man in Greece”

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“Yeah, well that’s just like, your opinion

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“the only person aware of his own ignorance”

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Today, we will be Socrates

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Become aware of our ignorance

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Who here is a Great developer?

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Who here is a Good developer?

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Challenges of a good developer

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Level 1 !

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Read Ruby

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Write Ruby

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Online tutorials

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Challenge:
 have a goal

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Build the next Facebook for dogs

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Build the next instagram for grandmas

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Build the next whatsapp for wallabies

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We don’t learn by doing

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We learn by questioning what we’re doing

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We learn by questioning what we’re doing

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Sound Familiar?

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When you have a goal you’re always asking:

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How can I use this

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Challenge: Be Weird

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Write Ruby

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Write a project just to throw it away

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Put it on github anyway

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Programmers are craftsman

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Sharpen your skills through play

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Level 2 !

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Programmers are social

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It’s true

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Writing code is sharing logic

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Challenge: share logic with humans

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Join A Usergroup

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Don’t forget

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Austin on Rails: 2 presentations & “socilization practice”

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Austin.rb 1 presentation & code kata

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Who has ever done a code kata?

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codeKata.com

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Example: Find all anagrams in a sentence

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Example: Convert roman numerals to integers

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Doing katas with real people gives you new insight.

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Doing katas with real people gives you new insight.

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Impostor Syndrome

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When you feel like you’re not a real programmer

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I suffered this for 2 years before showing anyone code

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Surprised to find out no one called me “stupid”

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No one called me “stupid”

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Other people made syntax mistakes too

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After 5+ years of going to user groups

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I’m worried I don’t have impostor syndrome anymore

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Just kidding

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Level 3 !

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Who has ever:

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Written Ruby code?

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Keep hand raised if you’ve:

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Opened an issue on an OSS repo (a PR counts)

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Submitted a pull request to an open source library?

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Had a pull request accepted

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Had a pull request accepted

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Challenge: Give Forwards to open source

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A good rubyist makes the future better

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How do you help?

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Open issues when you find bugs

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Include: version numbers

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Include: Expected behavior

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Include: Actual behavior

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Include: Reproduction instructions

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Read issues

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How many issues are open on rails/ rails now?

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600+

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Challenge: Write comments on issues

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How?

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CodeTriage .com

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Challenge: Comment on an issue

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Challenge: Write docs for a Repo

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How?

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DocsDoctor .org

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Reading docs

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Writing comments

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The path to OSS core is paved with issues and docs

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Disastrous consequences

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You’ll become a better developer

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You’ll learn things you never knew about your tools

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Even if you’re not ready today

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At bare minimum

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Click

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Pick

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Send them <3

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Even OSS developers get impostor syndrome

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Giving developer love turns into OSS code

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Be greedy: Give to your future self

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My entire salary for the has come from working on OSS software

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Level 4 !

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Bet you thought I was done

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What comes after being a good Rubyist?

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Rust?

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Go?

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Node?

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Swift?

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Nope

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There’s no need to leave Ruby to work with other languages

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Challenge: Learn how Ruby works

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Challenge: Contribute to Ruby (ask @Zzak)

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It doesn’t even have to be MRI

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Level 42 !

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Let’s ask ourselves

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Can we be better Ruby programmers ?

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Can I challenge myself today?

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You can never know it all

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By following the pursuit

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We’re all good Rubyists

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Questions @schneems