Slide of my Ruby World Conference talk: http://2015.rubyworld-conf.org/ja/program/

1. My experience of Ruby
Education in Taiwan
Mu-Fan Teng（@ryudoawaru）
Ruby World Conference
~台湾にRuby教育で得た知⾒見

2. はじめに
発表する機会をいただき
ありがとうございます

3. 自己紹介
鄧 慕凡（Mu-Fan Teng）
a.k.a: 竜堂 終
両方どもある小説の登場人物
Github / Twitter: @ryudoawaru
http://ryudo.tw

4. 台湾人であり

5. 仕事は

6. 五倍の紅宝石
http://5xruby.tw/en

7. 弊社の業務

8. Ruby / Rails の 教育業者

9. コンサルタンシー / オフショア
海外の取引先は日本、シンガポールなどを持ちます

10. Rubyの広める
RailsGirls / RubyConf…etc

11. RWC初めの海外スポンサーになりま
した

12. ここから、英語で話
す

13. AGENDA
Introduce Ruby Taiwan Community.
Ruby Employment Market in Taiwan.
Our Ruby/Rails Courses, how and
why.
Cooperate Training.
My findings in teaching Ruby.

14. Ruby Taiwan Community
Established in 2008, only Ruby Community in
Taiwan.

15. Ruby Community
Events in Taiwan

16. Ruby Tuesday
Regular Ruby Meetup

17. Taipei.rb
Meet-up with Technical & Soft Topics

18. RubyConf Taiwan
Anniversary Ruby Seminar

19. Rails Girls Taipei
5 times from 2013.9

20. Rails Girls Weekly
Spin-Off of Rails Girls

21. Chronicle
Appear in
OSS Community
2006
Ruby.TW
Established
2008
2nd
RubyConf.TW
2011.8
2010.04
First
RubyConf.TW
2012.12
3rd RubyConf.TW
1st
RailsGirls Taipei
2013.09
4th RubyConf.TW
5th
RubyConf.TW
2015.09
2014.04

22. Ruby Jobs in Taiwan

23. Statement
The following data is baed on what I see
and hear, no guarantee.

24. Ruby Company Distribution
30%
30%
40%Foreign Company
Local Companies
Local Startups

25. Many Oversea Companies
From 2010.
Mainly from Silicon Valley.
For Relatively Cheaper Salary Level.
Rise Salary Level of Web Engineers Taiwan

26. Average Salary LevelAnnualSalary
100万￥
225万￥
350万￥
475万￥
600万￥
Junior Intermediate Senior
Other Ruby

27. Engineer Skill Level
Junior: Entry-Level Skill.
Intermediate: Eligible Skill.
Senior: Fluent Skills and Experience on both
Front-End and Back-End.

28. Summary
The Actual Market
Demand of Ruby engineers are growing.
Employers always look for compact
power（即戦⼒力）.
Lack of experienced ones.
Juniors become depressed easily.

29. Our Ruby/Rails
Courses, how and
why.

30. Courses
Free
Monthly Ruby Basic
Promotional Courses in Campus
Commercial
Main Ruby on Rails Curriculum
Others

31. FREE Ruby Entry COURSE

32. FREE Ruby Course
Monthly and Free
No Qualification
Hand-made Texts

33. Syllabus—Ruby Intro
Install & Write your first Ruby Program
Basic Syntax（variable / flow control…etc）
Basic Class
Block, Proc and lambda
OOP
Use Rubygems & rake
Introduce Ruby’s Ecosystem

34. Campus Ruby Classes

35. Campus Ruby Courses
Topics: Ruby + Rails
Period: Between 2 and 5 days.
The skill level of students are more even.
Usually in computer class:
Difficult to keep learning.

36. Commercial Course

37. Class Type
Main Curriculum: Ruby on Rails From Zero
Other: Additive for Main Course, or other
independent topics.

38. Ruby on Rails from Zero
Separate into 3 parts：
“Prototyping”
“Handcrafting”
“Go Shopping”
3 + 3 + 7 = 13 hours a week, 3 weeks in a row.
Student can elect any one or all parts.

39. Prototyping
Environment Setup / Scaffold / HTTP Basic
HTML / CSS / Git Basic / Ruby Basic
Rails Convention / Bootstrap / Useful
Gems / Deploy to Heroku

40. Concept & Goals
Foundation of the following parts, like HTTP/
GIT/Ruby Syntax
Get a quick taste of Rails by Generators and
some useful Gems
Use Bootstrap Framework to decorate HTML
Help Students build confidence by deploying
their first APP to Heroku

41. Handcrafting Part
MVC Structure / Assets
Layouts / Helpers / Form Objects
ActiveRecord / Association / Scope /
Validation / Callback

42. Concept & Goals
Learn Common Parts of Rails
Bottom-Up Style, not only Generator
Students will write a voting system as
homework

43. Go shopping
Detail User system by Devise/Facebook
Connection
Establish an E-Commerce site with
shopping cart
ActionMailer and Delayed Job
Paypal Integration

44. Homework Flow
Instructor create a new
Github repo and puts initial
codes.
Trainees then fork &
implement.
Send PR for review.

45. Other Courses
Supplementry
Advanced Ruby
HTML / CSS
Independent
Ruby Motion

46. HTML / CSS
Name: “Evolution From Designer to Front-End Engineer”
14 hours, 2 days
Target: Designers who want to become Web Front-End
Engineers.
Goal:
Foundation of Rails Course.
For Designers to Write Modern HTML and CSS3 by
Hand.

47. Advanced Ruby
Class name: Ruby’s Note to Oneself
1 day, 6 hours
Target: Ruby programmer who want to advance metaprogramming
ability.
What will learn：
How to write OOP in Ruby
Write Metaprogramming in Rails
Write DSL
Write Command Line Program in Ruby

48. RubyMotion
Name：iOS App Development Guide for
Rails Workers
4 days, 18 hours
Target Audience: Rails Programmer who
want to keep using Ruby to write iOS App
Use ProMotion and Related RubyGem
instead of teach Cocoa framework

49. Corporate Training

50. Customer Background
Convert existing projects from other
languages (PHP,ASP…etc) to Rails.
Used to use other languages, planning to
develop new projects in Rails.
Currently using system based on Rails
(Redmine,Gitlab…etc) and want to
customise.

51. Difference
Taught at Customer’s office.
Programs are customized.
Students usually have web programming
skills of other languages.

52. Programs
Ruby + Rails
Git + Github + GitFlow
Test Driven Development

53. Services Besides Training
Consulting Service
Outsourcing Development
Human Resource Service

54. Special Outsourcing +
Consulting Service
We develop customer’s commission
project.
Use the project’s code as example on
training.
Assign issues to students, and review their
results.

55. Actual Migrating Case
Mission: Migrate old site to Rails.
Target: An online cosmetic catalog website
which has ran for 10+ years based on
ASP,PHP and MySQL.

56. My Findings

57. Problems in Class

58. Environment Building
Environment building is
always a pain.
Even for Mac.
Spends too much time.
OS Distribution
5%
35%
60%
Windows Mac
Linux

59. Workaround for Windows
Install VM and Linux:
Sometimes fails.
Unable to Keep Learning.
Rails Installer:
C-Binding Issues on Some Gems.
Windows Console is Awkward.
Cloud Web IDE platforms:
So far the best solution.

60. Cloud Web IDE Platforms
My recommendation：Nitrous.io and C9.io
Pros：No need to work on student’s computer setup anymore.
Cons：
Free plan runs tardily with low resources and no SSH.
Sometimes boots very slowly, especially when many
instances boots concurrently in class.
In case we told students to register and create instance
before class.

61. Inconsistent Skill Level
Program Experience
40%
20%
40%
WEB Programmer
Other programmer
Non
Git Experience
No
65%
Yes
35%
Yes No

62. Three Kind of Students
Total Rookie.
Experienced Web Programmer.
Rails Beginner who wants Instructor to help
with exercising and practicing.

63. Question & Response
Students are shy.
Need Time for Internalising Knowledge.
People are too Busy to Gather at one
Place.

64. Online Communication Tool
Slack is easy and
convenient.
Our usage:
Per Private Channel
for one class.
Distribute text and
code,url…etc

65. Enrolment

66. Enrolment Status
0
10
20
30
2014/4 2014/7 2014/10 2015/1 2015/3 2015/5 2015/7
会社成⽴立
Split into ABC parts

67. Motivation of Learning
Transfer from PHP or .NET or Java.
Learn New Skills.
Become Full-Stack.
Communicate with Programmers.
Become a Programmer.

68. Conclusion

69. Education is
Communication
Feedback is important

70. Education is
Experience
Keep Accumulating Experience

71. Education is Balance
Finding Balance Between Instructor and
Programmer

72. ご清聴ありがとうございました

73. Any Questions?