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Congrats, Steve! Would HacketyHack be good for a smart 10-year-old who's new to programming?

• steveklabnik 16y ago
  I started with BASIC when I was 7, so I'd say yes, absolutely. The four lessons walk you through a tour of what Hackety can do, the concepts of programming via LOGO, basic programming in Ruby, and then simple things with Shoes. I've got a bunch of examples, too... you can check them out on GitHub directly, and see how you feel about them: Lessons: https://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/tree/master/lessons https://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/tree/master/lesso... Samples: https://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/tree/master/samples https://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/tree/master/sampl... The biggest thing is that it's just Ruby, with a bunch of libraries. I still need to come up with a good solution for STDIN and STDOUT, but it's all just Ruby 1.9.1.
  • rick_2047 16y ago
    It's nice that you have a very easy API to make lessons, maybe someone can port _why's poignant guide to ruby as a Interactive Fiction to hackety hack. Q: is there a way to add pictures?
    • steveklabnik 16y ago
      Yep, I include a picture of Matz in the Ruby one: https://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/blob/master/lessons/basic_ruby.rb#L51 https://github.com/hacketyhack/hacketyhack/blob/master/lesso... You can also just use a URL from the web, and the first time the program runs, it downloads and caches it.