LtP refers to "Learning to Program," freely available at http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram.

In addition to the reading assignments and tasks, we will convene at least weekly (maybe twice a week to allay issues with scheduling) synchronously using "Big Blue Button" to discuss the week's reading, tasks and exercises as well as any problems encountered, course feedback, etc...

Participants are expected to contribute to the course by discussing reading, tasks and exercises via the mailing list and IRC. Furthermore, participants are encouraged to read and comment on each other's submissions to the exercises via GitHub commit comments.

Week 1

• Task: Installing Ruby

  • Windows: Download and install Ruby using RubyInstaller

  • OS X: Ruby is already installed!

  • Ubuntu Linux: At the command line: sudo apt-get install ruby

• Task: Choosing a Programmer's Editor

• Reading Assignment: LtP Chapters 0-4

  Installing Ruby, Numbers, Letters, Variables & Assignment, Mixing It Up

• Task: Setting up git and using GitHub

• Exercises: "A Few Things to Try" from LtP: Chapters 1 & 4

  Submit exercises via GitHub, as described in this guide.

Week 2

• Reading Assignment: LtP Chapters 5-8

  More About Methods, Flow Control, Arrays & Iterators, Writing Your Own Methods

• Exercises: "A Few Things to Try" from LtP: Chapters 6 & 7

  Submit exercises via GitHub, as described in this guide.

• Exercises: Custom Exercise TBD

  Submit exercises via GitHub, as described in this guide.

Week 3

Continuation of week 2 exercise ...

Week 4

• Reading Assignment: LtP Chapters 9-11

  Classes, Blocks and Procs, and Beyond This Tutorial

• Exercises: "A Few Things to Try" from LtP: Chapters 9

  Submit exercises via GitHub, as described in this guide.