# Ghana: Aiti to Train Over 100 Tutors in Ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ghana-aiti-to-train-over-100-tutors-in-ruby/68530>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 13, 2006, 12:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ghana-aiti-to-train-over-100-tutors-in-ruby/68530 "2006-09-13T12:16:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zoat)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 12:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ghana-aiti-to-train-over-100-tutors-in-ruby/68530/1 "2006-09-13T12:16:53Z")

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As part of the on-going collaboration between the Ghana-India Kofi  
Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT and the Finatrade Foundation, over  
one hundred ICT tutors from forty four Senior Secondary Schools (SSS)  
are expected to be trained in Ruby P.ming Language. Ruby is a new  
generation and a dynamic object oriented programming language. It is  
relatively easy to learn and can be mastered within a relatively short  
period of time. It is a useful tool for developing software  
applications to enhance productivity in the economy.  
[http://allafrica.com/stories/200609120015.html](http://allafrica.com/stories/200609120015.html)

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**Author:** ![zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zoat)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ghana-aiti-to-train-over-100-tutors-in-ruby/68530/2 "2006-09-15T01:06:48Z")

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Yes. Very interesting news. We’re going to try and teach people Ruby  
so that we can get more programmers. Moving up from doing it in QBasic  
to doing it in Ruby should make it more understandable for the kids  
involved, I think.

– G.

PS: I am a developer in residence at the centre mentioned below and am  
a bit confused as well. The message contains information (signal) but  
is a bit cryptic 🙂

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**Author:** ![zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zoat)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ghana-aiti-to-train-over-100-tutors-in-ruby/68530/3 "2006-09-13T19:13:36Z")

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zoat wrote:

> As part of the on-going collaboration between the Ghana-India Kofi  
> Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT and the Finatrade Foundation, over  
> one hundred ICT tutors from forty four Senior Secondary Schools (SSS)  
> are expected to be trained in Ruby P.ming Language. Ruby is a new  
> generation and a dynamic object oriented programming language. It is  
> relatively easy to learn and can be mastered within a relatively short  
> period of time. It is a useful tool for developing software  
> applications to enhance productivity in the economy.  
> [http://allafrica.com/stories/200609120015.html](http://allafrica.com/stories/200609120015.html)

This is actually interesting news–and not spam as  
one may have suspected 🙂