I am indebted to:

• RailsConf for giving me the opportunity to make the kind of tutorial I wish had been around when I was learning to program
• The team at Django Girls for showing me what a kind, inclusive programming tutorial looks like
• Matthew Boeh for teaching me pretty much everything I know about Ruby and making software work good
• Amy Hanlon, Lacey Williams Henschel, Tara Planas, and Will Clifford for testing out a messy first draft of this tutorial
• Nate Smith for spending many nights making me dinner and listening to me read this tutorial aloud