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I'm currently teaching a complete beginner how to program. She's interested in the web, but I was concerned about the breadth of RoR; instead we've gone with Si
by jandy 15y ago
I'm currently teaching a complete beginner how to program. She's interested in the web, but I was concerned about the breadth of RoR; instead we've gone with Sinatra, which seems to be much easier to swallow. It's much closer to the metal, and has considerably less moving parts than RoR.
It's working out pretty well so far.
- gamechangr 15y agoI have heard that starting with Sinatra is the answer. Your answer is my confirmation. glad it works
- korussian 15y agoCould you please suggest the best way to get started with Sinatra for a beginner who just knows HTML/CSS? Most Sinatra tutorials I've found seem to deal either with very specific hacker-interest cases ("How to combine Sinatra with x to do y better") or teach you how to do specific basic stuff and then stop short, promising more tutorials later. I'm looking for something that takes me from Part 1 to Part 10, so that I can really learn to use Sinatra to make cool stuff that average people would like. Maybe this means one source, or maybe a list of multiple sources in order. It would be great to get a list like: 1. Read this 2. Read that 3. Try this 4. Now you can do that 5. Get really good at #4, then read this
- gamechangr 15y agoI'm facing the same issue. It looks like there are plenty of those "roadmaps" for Rails, but not much for Sinatra. I think the community assumes a higher level of learning. I've started working on Sinatra with friends. Let me know if you land the information, I couldn't fast enough-so went to people instead of the web.