Here is the opensecrets.org api description. http://www.opensecrets.org/action/api_doc.php Gray...
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Derek Harmel
derekharmel
Nov 11, 2009 3:46 pm
Looks like someone already picked that one up, though I think the API could be improved. There are three more "Ruby Wrapper" requests that haven't been ...
1954
Charles Calvert
cbc-novarubygroup@...
Nov 12, 2009 8:37 pm
All, A colleague of mine knows an 8 year old who is curious about programming. My mind immediately went to Ruby (my 8 year old likes it for fiddling around...
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Joel Nylund
jnylund
Nov 12, 2009 8:42 pm
Ive been planning on trying out this on my kids http://www.alice.org/ but havent gotten to it yet Joel ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Paul D. Bain
pauldbain
Nov 12, 2009 9:03 pm
... Hello, Charles, One of Manning's best-selling books is relevant to your query: http://www.manning.com/sande/ Sincerely, Paul Bain...
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David Medinets
medined
Nov 12, 2009 9:09 pm
Check out: http://www.educational-software-directory.net/children/programming On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Charles Calvert...
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Thomas, Mark - BLS
mark_th0mas
Nov 13, 2009 12:51 pm
Over the summer, I taught my daughters (14 and 12) to program using this book: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ltp2/learn-to-program-2nd-edition It went well,...
1959
andyschneider@...
andrew.schne...
Nov 13, 2009 1:08 pm
Alice is brilliant. My 12 year old watched me look at the introductory video and can't wait To start trying it. I am thinking of learning more, and perhaps...
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Jeff Casimir
jeffcasimir
Nov 13, 2009 3:45 pm
Charles, As recommended before, the "Learn to Program" book by Chris Pine is fabulous. I think it's the perfect fit. The only drawback is that it's almost...
1961
gherter
Nov 13, 2009 7:55 pm
The NovaJUG meeting on Polyglot Persistence next week might be interesting to some of us. http://www.eventbrite.com/event/489061797 Gray ... Polyglot...
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gherter
Nov 13, 2009 8:02 pm
Ruby is not on the list! I think for an 8 year old, they will be willing to start, but have very little attention span or grasp of the abstract concepts...
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Matthew M. Burke
burkemat
Nov 14, 2009 2:20 pm
Alice is not a bad choice, but for that age I'd learn towards Scratch. Book recommendations: Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using ...
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Roy Nicholson
rsnicholson2001
Nov 14, 2009 4:00 pm
I loved Logo as a kid. More modern answer I've seen is python's turtle module - http://pythonturtle.org/ || http://docs.python.org/library/turtle.html or if...
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Karen Gillison
karengva
Nov 15, 2009 12:01 am
Here are a couple of sites I recommend. They all have good content for interested 8 year-olds. <http://csunplugged.com/> <http://www.squeakland.org/> ...
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SERGEY VOLKOV
prostovsv
Nov 15, 2009 2:19 am
FYI ... From: Karen Gillison <karengva@...> Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [novarubygroup] Programming for kids To:...
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gherter
Nov 17, 2009 6:56 pm
What do you folks think Aman should speak about at the next meeting? Here is what he sent me: "I'm not sure if people are interested in hearing about...
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Carl Fyffe
sixty4bit
Nov 17, 2009 8:05 pm
I would love to hear a talk on EventMachine or amqp. Both are interesting. I wouldn't mind hearing about the low-level Ruby stuff either. Event based...
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navjeet
Nov 18, 2009 1:30 am
I would be interested to hear about the event machine, amqp, perftools etc., the more practical stuff. Navjeet Blog: http://chabbewal.blogspot.com Twitter:...
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David Medinets
medined
Nov 18, 2009 12:24 pm
Wasn't he going to talk about MongoDB? Otherwise, I'd like to hear and see hooking up Ruby and C to drive some API without Ruby bindings. On the gripping hand,...
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Aman Gupta
themastermin...
Nov 18, 2009 1:19 pm
The threading talk dives into some technical details, but it focuses primarily on the tools and techniques used to debug ruby's threading issues. Ideally you...
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Matthew Podwysocki
matthew.podw...
Nov 19, 2009 3:17 pm
Believe it or not, but I've found a language like Haskell quite easy for younger audiences to pick up. Some coworkers of mine have done teaching to grade...
1973
Ken Chien
bigtummy77
Nov 19, 2009 3:17 pm
"why the lucky stiff"'s (AKA _why) "Hackety Hack" project was created especially for this purpose. The original was taken down, but it has been resurrected on...
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Ryan McGeary
rmm5t
Nov 19, 2009 3:19 pm
Charles, "Hackety Hack is a free Ruby-based environment aiming to make programming easily available to beginners" http://github.com/steveklabnik/hacketyhack ...
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gherter
Nov 19, 2009 3:24 pm
No, MongoDB is Tony Pilate in January. Gray...
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gherter
Nov 19, 2009 3:37 pm
I suppose it is up to you to present whatever you want. I didn't sense much of a consensus in our responses. I will through up your bio and something vague in...
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David Medinets
medined
Nov 19, 2009 5:00 pm
http://ruby.about.com/b/2009/10/22/how-can-twitter-help-you-find-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer.htm - since two people were looking for jobs at our last meeting,...
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Trevor Rosen
trevrosen
Nov 20, 2009 2:40 pm
Hi all, I'm using Rails to build a web service that takes a POST of XML with a chunk of base64-encoded binary data and some metadata. I want to save the...
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Charles Calvert
cbc-novarubygroup@...
Nov 20, 2009 2:50 pm
All, On 11/12/2009 3:37 PM, Charles Calvert wrote: [snip] ... Thanks for all of your suggestions. I've passed them on to my colleague and will keep them in...
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Joel Nylund
jnylund
Nov 20, 2009 3:42 pm
We are currently looking to hire intelligent people who can communicate well. In addition they must have several years of J2EE, .NET, PHP, or Ruby on Rails...
1981
Victor
vmgoldberg2
Nov 20, 2009 3:58 pm
Hi Joel, Your list of languages suggests an interest in OO people. If that's the case, Smalltalk might be acceptable to you. In general, I like your...
