re: learning Ruby: at the SF Ruby conference in 2012, Steven! Ragnarök gave an interesting talk called "Sugar-Free Ruby" about an object-first approach to teach

re: learning Ruby: at the SF Ruby conference in 2012, Steven! Ragnarök gave an interesting talk called "Sugar-Free Ruby" about an object-first approach to teaching/learning Ruby. Start with methods on objects, and introduce syntactic sugar like `a + b` later. video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNbBC2pSiVw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNbBC2pSiVw slides: https://speakerdeck.com/nuclearsandwich/sugar-free-ruby https://speakerdeck.com/nuclearsandwich/sugar-free-ruby