Online Ruby Programming Course from Pragmatic Studio

I don't see how this can even compete with something like treehouse or code school. It's the same sort of online course that is being offered everywhere across the web and the price, in my opinion, is pretty outlandish.

Re: Online Ruby Programming Course from Pragmatic Studio

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Post by andyakb » Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 6:52 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #4

There's quite a healthy ecosystem in this area now, it seems. Just some links: https://rubyoffrails.com/ http://owningrails.com/ http://www.codeschool.com/ http://railstutors.com/ http://www.rubyreloaded.com/ (disclaimer: mine!) http://rubylearning.org/class/ (free) http://www.buildingwebapps.com/learningrails (free) Probably should get together a list of these someplace actually!

are there comparable options for python? from my searching, I havent seen any as thorough as some of these.

Re: Online Ruby Programming Course from Pragmatic Studio

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Post by duck » Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 6:58 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #4

There's quite a healthy ecosystem in this area now, it seems. Just some links: https://rubyoffrails.com/ http://owningrails.com/ http://www.codeschool.com/ http://railstutors.com/ http://www.rubyreloaded.com/ (disclaimer: mine!) http://rubylearning.org/class/ (free) http://www.buildingwebapps.com/learningrails (free) Probably should get together a list of these someplace actually!

Speaking of Ruby Reloaded, when is the next class? I'm thinking you're not going to make April at this point. :) Out of all of them, I think yours would be considered the only advanced one right?

Re: Online Ruby Programming Course from Pragmatic Studio

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Post by cglee » Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 7:22 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #4

There's quite a healthy ecosystem in this area now, it seems. Just some links: https://rubyoffrails.com/ http://owningrails.com/ http://www.codeschool.com/ http://railstutors.com/ http://www.rubyreloaded.com/ (disclaimer: mine!) http://rubylearning.org/class/ (free) http://www.buildingwebapps.com/learningrails (free) Probably should get together a list of these someplace actually!

Instructor at RailsTutors here. We just launched our next class, and I should point out that ours is live instruction and a month-long class-based curriculum. It's a HUGE difference from watching online videos. I don't want to market too much in this thread, but if you're interested just check out our curriculum and see what our previous students are saying: railstutors.com

Re: Online Ruby Programming Course from Pragmatic Studio

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Post by petercooper » Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 7:28 PM UTC

duck wrote: post #7

petercooper wrote: post #4

There's quite a healthy ecosystem in this area now, it seems. Just some links: https://rubyoffrails.com/ http://owningrails.com/ http://www.codeschool.com/ http://railstutors.com/ http://www.rubyreloaded.com/ (disclaimer: mine!) http://rubylearning.org/class/ (free) http://www.buildingwebapps.com/learningrails (free) Probably should get together a list of these someplace actually!

Speaking of Ruby Reloaded, when is the next class? I'm thinking you're not going to make April at this point. :) Out of all of them, I think yours would be considered the only advanced one right?

My work on O'Reilly Fluent has severely hit my time for working on it and I like to 'rebuild' the course most times I run it. I won't make an announcement until I'm 100% happy for it to go ahead as I don't want to disappoint anyone but it should be "very soon"! :-)

Mine is probably the one most focused on intermediate developers rather than beginners per se. It's for people who already know and work with Ruby but who want to flesh out their understanding of the Ruby object model, metaprogramming, project structure, library building, and so forth.

Re: Online Ruby Programming Course from Pragmatic Studio

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Post by petercooper » Wed, Apr 25, 2012, 7:30 PM UTC

zdgman wrote: post #5

I don't see how this can even compete with something like treehouse or code school. It's the same sort of online course that is being offered everywhere across the web and the price, in my opinion, is pretty outlandish.

As good as Code School is (I'm not familiar with Treehouse), its Try Ruby lessons are relatively shallow. A good introduction, sure, but I think this Prag course goes somewhat further.