Boston Ruby Group: May Meeting

May Meeting

Brian Delacey — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:00:00 +0000

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:

Hackety Hack Wiki

Hackety Hack Home

Hackety Hack Talkety Forum

So, let’s roll out the ruby red carpet to meet and greet Hacky Mouse at the May gathering of Boston Ruby!

"May Meeting" by Brian DeLacey

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:51:52 +0000

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?

"May Meeting" by Jason Morrison

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:50:33 +0000

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.

"May Meeting" by Eric Mill

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:04:34 +0000

Luke: give him time.

"May Meeting" by Luke Stark

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:54:21 +0000

That so rocks! I wish my kid was older.