Ruby Makes My Brain Happy

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Claims that Ruby on Rails and Ruby’s syntax literally increase programmer happiness, backed by teaching experience: a six‑month bootcamp, five years instructing at Coder Academy and hundreds of career changers observed. Compares Ruby, JavaScript, Python and a bit of C, shows learners who start in a language that fits them stick with coding more, reports easier flow and trust when working in Ruby. Grounds the pedagogy in Piaget’s assimilation and accommodation, recommends broad early exposure to languages so learners find what actually works.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:50Biancas background
3. 3:10About this talk
4. 4:17My experiences learning to code
5. 6:09My siblings
6. 8:50Neurodiversity
7. 9:53Learning Styles
8. 11:48Piaget
9. 16:21Learning
10. 17:21Happiness
11. 21:12Preferences
12. 22:39Balancing
13. 23:59Tools and environments
14. 27:37Practice

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