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by phaedryx 1904 days ago
I don't see this mentioned on the website, but, if I remember correctly, they also have materials for teaching kids how to code. I was thinking about running something at my son's school last year before Covid shut everything down.

The "hotloading" is really nice and the community on Discord is excellent.
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lloeki 1904 days ago
Instead of DR, I think I'll use Ruby2D as a very first step: it's incredibly limited, having only basic primitives, but it's also much more approachable, in a BASIC/LOGO-like way.

Coincidentally because of that use case I just remembered yesterday that I had a PR open on Ruby2D...

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jonnydubowsky 1901 days ago
I think this is what you mean? https://wndx.school/p/dragon-ruby-game-toolkit-tutorial

Looks like a great resource.

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