Learn to Program with Hackety Hack!
By Ravenhawk | June 21, 2007
I was Stumbling around the internet awhile back when I came upon a program called Hackety Hack. The basic idea is that there are not enough people in the world who know how to program: Normal people should be able to do it too, not just the technically inclined. To this end, they aim to teach normal people how to program in an easy and fun way.
Their language of choice for starters is Ruby, because the creator of Hackety Hack knows it. They hope to spread out to other languages at a later point in time. Looking at the Manifesto page now, it also mentions Gecko. I don’t remember if this was there when I downloaded it, however, they have gone up a .0.1 version since I downloaded it, so who knows what they may have added.
At the moment there are seven lessons, of which I have gone through three. The language is simple, even playful as they explain how to do basic things such as printing words on a page, and retrieving user input. Next we geared up to pulling RSS feed and sorting them, then writing tables.
I’ll feel really achieved if/when I make a post on this blog using a blogging program I’ve written myself. =)
I’m not done with it yet, but Hackety Hack seems like it’ll be fun. Ignoring the fact that their web page seems to be geared at younger people, it’ll be an entertaining way for me to add another programming language to my arsenal before I go back to heavy university classes in C++.
Tags: Programming, Gecko, Hackety Hack, Hacking, Ruby
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