Hackety Hack for Ubuntu

[Brian DeLacey]

Hackety Hack <http://hacketyhack.net/> is a new open source program for
learning programming using Ruby. An early release on Ubuntu was released
last night. It's a pretty remarkable learning tool developed by why the
lucky stiff, <http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/> who has a long list of
technically impressive projects built in and around Ruby.

The Ubuntu pre-pre-release is now available for an early glimpse. I
installed it on the latest Ubuntu without any problems. Here's how you can
too:

This binary is built on Ubuntu Feisty (i686).  You will need to supply
firefox and wxwindows.
On Ubuntu:

 sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0
 cd hacketyhack-0.L
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib
/firefox:. ./hacketyhack

I'd be interested in any thoughts you may have on Hackety Hack. Over the
next few months, Canonical will be looking  to promote Ubuntu / Edubuntu as
an ideal teaching environment for computer programming in schools.

I've also been in contact with Dell about their upcoming release of
Dell/Ubuntu machines. Their Boston office is looking into what they might be
able to do in the way of a public meeting forum. I'll be doing a
presentation of Ruby/Rails/Hackety Hack using Ubuntu at the June 20th
meeting of the Boston Linux User
Group<http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2007-jun>meeting.

- Brian
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