Programming for the Web - LinuxBarbados

From web programming to the Internet of Things (IoT) to writing code that can take us beyond the constraints of Moore's Law.

Transcript

1. Programming for the Web Joint Session: Computer Science Club and LinuxBarbados University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados Friday, October 10, 2014
3. 1. Why Ruby? ! 2. What’s next?
4. What vs. Why
5. Open source is NOT about bashing .
6. Clients Customers Employers
9. “I pull the source code into Eclipse…” 
 -11-year-old in Chicago
10. I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. 
 -Linus Torvalds
11. Martha Chumo ! @NjeriChelimo ! Kenya USA
12. “I thought if I can't go to the hacker school, let me try to bring the school to me.” 
 -Martha Chumo
13. 1. Why Ruby?
14. What is the correct tool for the thought in your head right now? ! -@hyperjeff
18. MVC: Everything has a place.
19. Object Relational Mapping (ORM)
20. [With open source] Rather than just sit around idle waiting for some vendor to fix your problems, you get the unique chance of being a steward of your own destiny. 
 -David H. Hansson
21. Not just software.
22. Internet of Things ! (IoT)
31. Moore’s Law: The party is over.
34. Rubinius
35. 2. What’s next?
36. http://github.com
37. Get 
 this.
38. http://twitter.com Use Tweetdeck or Hootsuite.
39. http://rvm.io
41. Linux or OS X.
42. Top500.org
43. 10,000 hours of practice. (We can work on this together.)
44. Blog about what you learn.
45. Thanks!