Hackety Hack and _why (Interview)

Steve Klabnik joined the show to talk about learning to program with Hackety Hack and why the lucky stiff.

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Show Notes:

Steve Klabnik, maintainer of Hackety Hack, newest contributor to The Changelog
Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute basics of programming from the ground up.
_why, creator of Hackety Hack. Help keep his memory alive.
Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s on first?”
Yakety Yak is a song written, produced, and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958
Shoes is a tiny graphical app kit for ruby
GTK is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform compatibility and an easy to use API.
MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks.
The Shoebox is a gallery of Shoes apps.
Mad props to Heroku, Sinatra, and MongoMapper for handling a LifeHacker traffic spike
Ruby is a great language to teach programming
_why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby
ChunkFive is a nice bold free and open source typeface
Steve is intrigued by projects like cool.io and node.js and the evented style of programming.

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