Ruby’s popularity and usage is growing exponentially with each passing day. Don’t get left behind. Here’s your chance to learn Ruby programming for free, at the comfort of your home and along with an online teacher.
This course is ideal for those of you who want to complement your skill-set with Ruby, but haven’t quite found the time to do so. There would be online lessons, exercises, quizzes and assignments all the way. You are free to ask all your Ruby related doubts, queries and questions and rest assured that they would be answered.
The course is open to all and will cover Core and Advanced Ruby. The syllabus is already available online, so you can get started early by planning what you’re going to cover. The course proper begins on Monday, 7th January 2008 and to take part, all you have to do is register at the class and enroll in the course. Detailed instructions are available there.
The first such course was held in August 2006 with over 100 students participating. The second held in August 2007 had over 500 students participating. This would be the third batch.
The parent RubyLearning site is a great Ruby resource for newcomers to the language. The current course is designed using Moodle a free, open-source course management system (CMS).
Interested? Register now. Registrations close on 6th January 2008 at 18.00 hrs IST.
Do pass this word to all your friends, colleagues. Don’t let this opportunity slip away.
Update: -
The batch has started with 2190 participants.
My sincere thanks to the following for writing about this course and making it popular.
- Fabio Akita from Brazil
- DZone
- Remco van ‘t Veer from Netherlands
- Lucas HĂșngaro from Brazil
- Obie Fernandez
- Fernando Quadro from Brazil
- Francesca B. Cice from Italy
- BR-Linux.org
- Robert Evans from USA
- Jeff Whitmire from USA
- Pat Eyler from USA
- Ganesh Iyer from India
- Peter Cooper from UK - Ruby Inside
- Learning Rails Podcast
- Mohan Kumar from India
- IronRuby from India
- Cristiano Coelho Ribeiro from Brazil
- Ahmed Mahmoud from Egypt
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Posted by Satish Talim



hi im newbe here & want to learn RoR
hi
im rasheed….from hyderabad,doing my MCA from GRIET ,JNTU,hyderabad.
I came to know about ROR few months back…and i want to do my project on RoR…
Till now I dont know RoR programming but i am disparate to learn it.
can any one suggest me how i have to proceed …..is it possible for me to learn RoR & do project on it…. i am thinking about going for some CMS kind of projec…but i dont know how to start & how to analyse or get specifications….
till this point i dont have any experience of doing project…and i have to submit abstract by next week….
i had alredy discussed this with my project guide she said ok but she diclared that she cannot help meout if i get suck up some where in the middle of project….problem is my HOD have to accept this project..
but i decided to take risk….and im seeking your help
thanx in advance
Hi, could you give me more details please ? If you cannot do it here, then how can I contact you ?
Waiting for a reply, Thanks
You can email at mail[at]satishtalim[dot]com
the class sounds great - but the site is down…
The site is up and kicking. If the site was down when you tried to access it, it must have been a temporary phase.
thanx for the tutorial, i have never used ruby before and I am interested in the content
regards
The tutorial is good enough to start…
covers most of d basics…
Thanx a lot Mr.satish…