May Meeting 4
This next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 8th from 7 to 9pm at 1 Broadway St, Kendall Square, Cambridge.
We plan an introductory demonstration and discussion of _why’s latest creation, Hackety Hack. The tour will be led by a tag-team of beta testers (including Eric Mill, Kevin Driscoll and Brian DeLacey) who have been using this since early March. Some highlights, in the words of _why:
“Hackety Hack is fundamentally a browser and a programming language”
“[I]t’s about simply offering a place for plainspeople to tinker with code”
“Common things are one-liners.”
“Help files are clean, short, simple. Lots of short examples”
“Hackety Hack is free and will remain free henceforth.”
“Beginners should be greeted to Hackety Hack by a cartoon character. (For the sake of argument, let’s call this character: Hacky Mouse.)”
This is still pre-release but there’s a rich and growing library of functionality. (Check out the interactive tutor!) Yes, it is most certainly fun. You can learn more about it at the following places:
So, let’s roll out the ruby red carpet to meet and greet Hacky Mouse at the May gathering of Boston Ruby!
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That so rocks! I wish my kid was older.
Luke: give him time.
Oh man, I wish I could attend! H-ety H rocks my rocks, & I’m moving to Boston in July. Out of curiosity, will there be any get-kids-started-on-programming sort of summer-camp things in Boston this summer that HH might make an appearance at? If so, I’d love to help.
Great idea about Hackety Hack and get-kids-started-on-programming summer-camp. The nearby Media Lab has done some neat things in conjunction with Intel and the Computer Clubhouse program – www.computerclubhouse.org – maybe HH could play like that too?