1.0 RUBY INTERNSHIPS WHAT WE DO TO TEACH RUBY? Maciej Rząsa PGS Software Rzeszów 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 

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STARTING POINT: 2012 AN OLD JOKE source: http://www.premierlifts.com 

STARTING POINT: 2012 small number of Ruby devs in Rzeszów Ruby taught on the local technical university action: lectures on the university, inviting to internship 

WHAT? create potentially useful application: e.g. link sharing, coffee preparing start with the Rails way later add advanced concepts: services, decorators, serializers etc. assignments in Ruby to learn the language and algorithms tools: git, JIRA, capistrano 

HOW? Iterative process based on SCRUM 1-week sprints dailies to sync plannings to learn how to estimate review to demonstrate working app and get feedback retrospectives to adapt regular code review A mentor acts as a client (and as a technical lead). 

LESSONS LEARNED everone has its own pace of learning when I explain a topic to a student I get better understanding of it what is to manage a product development giving feedback patience 

CHALLENGES multitasking effective code review: what to do if the code ugly after N-th review (N >> 3) Product Owner - Teach Lead dychotomy (solved: separate roles now) 

RESULTS potentially usable products 12 interns in 3 years (2013-2015) hiring (about 1/2 the team comes after the internship) 

2016 source: http://www.20minutes.fr