Intro slides for the first Seattle RailsBridge Workshops. April 23rd 2011

1. Seattle’s First RailsBridge Ruby on Rails (RoR) Workshop

2. Why Are We Here? Ruby Community Women in Computing Learning Something Cool!

3. Ruby Community Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto “I believe people want to express themselves when they program. They don't want to fight with the language. Programming languages must feel natural to programmers. I tried to make people enjoy programming and concentrate on the fun and creative part of programming when they use Ruby”. – Matz 2001

4. Seattle.rb Ryan Davis – ryand-ruby@zenspider.com Open Hacking Night: Every Tuesday Where: Usually VivaceCafe on Broadway and Republican. When: 7 PM - whenever (9ish)

5. Women in Computing 1842: Ada Lovelace - analyst of Charles Babbage's analytical engine and described as the "first computer programmer” 1965: Mary Allen Wilkes - first developer of an operating system (LAP) for the first minicomputer (LINC) 1949: Grace Hopper - first programmer of the Harvard Mark I, known as the "Mother of COBOL". Developed the first ever compiler for an electronic computer known as A-0.

6. Women in Computing Where are they Today? DevChix AWC GeekGirls LinuxChix Look Around You!

7. Learn Something Cool! What is Ruby on Rails? Why Should You Care? Who Uses RoR?

8. What is RoR? Ruby is a language Rails is a Framework Web Apps

9. Why Should You Care? Useful Tools! Geek-Out! Build Something! Think Differently! Work Together!

10. Who Uses RoR? Twitter Shopify Shop It To Me Oakley Groupon Hulu Hark PennyArcade SlideShare YellowPages

11. Where Do I Start? HERE! Today’s Curriculum: http://www.wiki.devchix.com/index.php?title=Rails_3_Curriculum Wireless:

12. Saturday Schedule ▪ 10:30-11:20 session 1 (Build and Deploy, Make it Your Own) ▪ 11:30-12:20 session 2 (A Closer Look, Adding Topics) ▪ 12:30-1:30 lunch ▪ 1:30-2:20 session 3 (Routes, Creating a Topic) ▪ 2:30-3:20 session 4 (The Topics Page, Allowing Voting) ▪ 3:30-4pm large group wrap up (What's Next?)