Rails Girls Glasgow - What is programming?

This is the introductory talk Matt gave to the group of 25 women who came to the free Rails Girls workshop to try programming for the first time.

Transcript

1. What is programming? @mattwynne Glasgow September 2013
2. bampot
3. blether
4. Programming is Communicating
11. Please can I see your homepage?
12. Please can I see your homepage?
13. Please can I see your homepage? Sure! This is how to draw my homepage
14. All programming languages
15. Why Ruby?
16. Why Ruby?
17. Why Ruby? Designed for programmer happiness
18. Why Ruby? Designed for programmer happiness Friendly Community
19. Why Ruby? Designed for programmer happiness Friendly Community Open Source
20. Why Ruby? Designed for programmer happiness Friendly Community Open Source
22. Browser
23. Browser Terminal
24. Browser Terminal Text Editor
26. http://tryruby.org
27. http://guides.railsgirls.com/app/