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Make sure to mention IRB in the lesson on terminals.

Change all earlier irb based stuff to use the irb prefix in the code highlighting.

The Heroku lesson should not be in the first week. Move it somewhere else.

Somewhere early there has to be an explanation of what a Gem is.

Change all code blocks to use highlight and the proper lexer(http://pygments.org/docs/lexers/):

ruby - ruby
irb - irb
zsh - zsh

Include discussion of symbols and custom objects.

When do we teach recursion? Maybe methods?

Need to explain what the terminal outputs - like return - and how to do a put statement. Also maybe show them what an error looks like.

Where do we have a discussion of local, instance, and global variables? Would also be worth treating singleton stuff since we are also discussing objects and methods.

Add a discussion of string interpolation.

Add a button to each file that allows you to add make the page into a pdf. One possible option:

Convert this page to a PDF

or

https://gitprint.com/

Include a bit in Methods about Private vs Public methods.

Tab for autocomplete and up arrow for previous stuff. And more....

Break the initial RSpec session into multiple lessons.

Add a bit on concerns in Rails 4 to the modules section.

Show the students how to get an element out of an array of an array - stuff[0][1]