Any tips on how i could learn Ruby/RoR if i dont know jack bout coding and dont have a helping hand around where i live? Please help :S
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Re: Any tips on how i could learn Ruby/RoR if i dont know jack bout coding and dont have a helping hand around where i live? Please help :S
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#3If I'm right, and you are young, the best thing you can do is to learn a core set of skills, don't worry about RoR yet. Go to the website http://www.drscheme.org/ where you can d/l free software and a free textbook. If you study the book carefully, if you work hard, you will learn a lot.
Re: Any tips on how i could learn Ruby/RoR if i dont know jack bout coding and dont have a helping hand around where i live? Please help :S
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Re: Any tips on how i could learn Ruby/RoR if i dont know jack bout coding and dont have a helping hand around where i live? Please help :S
#7My first suggestion is to take a course in a programming langauge at a local college. Learning a language, any language, will start you off faster than struggling with it on your own. C# or VB.NET are non-intimidating and taught everywhere as they're the workhorse languages in many microsoft-based IT shops. They're not cool and hackerish, but have the instant gratification of easy GUI building which is helpful to beginners, and you can avoid memory management which is very intimidating to beginners. They're also taught EVERYWHERE so even in East Chucka, someone will have these courses in some format. Appreciation for the finer things (ruby and dynamic languages) is more clear when you've seen how the other half lives. Also, if you learn one of these languages, you can possibly get a QA or support job to pay for more classes. Lisp, Ruby and and Scheme are cool, but won't pay the bills while you learn.
The next thing I'd suggest is to come up with an idea for something you're passionate about creating, and learn the technologies you need to make it as you go. Having a project you're excited about is the difference between being hungry for a technology and choking it down like a cold piece of liver.
And finally, as the other posts mentioned, get the pragmatic programmers book when you're ready to learn ruby. I'd suggest starting with a Ruby course, but I'm not sure they exist on any wide-scale. Remember though, that book is focused on the framework, not the ruby language. Once you know how to code, you'll be all set.