[LRUG] Advice for a newbie

[Louis Goff-Beardsley]

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From: Chat [mailto:chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org] On Behalf Of Tom Yates
Sent: 10 April 2016 10:51
To: chat at lists.lrug.org
Subject: [LRUG] Advice for a newbie

Dear all and hello,

I am looking at a career change into the world of programming, specifically ruby. I was wondering if anyone had some advice for me on:

1. How to prepare myself for working in (ruby) programming - i.e. what are useful things to know/learn beforehand.

2. The best places to look for (and hopefully find) a job.


A bit about me:

Whilst working full-time I've been teaching myself ruby, PHP, html 5, css 3, js and a bit of SQL through watching online courses, mostly at udemy.com and messing around with the language. I've just started reading "The Ruby Way" by Hal Fulton. I've uploaded my projects to github.com/tomy8s (feel free to look!), and I've just started putting together a mess of a rails app at tomy8s.herokuapp.com . I have a bachelors degree in languages (French, Spanish and Slovene) - vaguely related to a degree in ruby, python and C?

I'd be very grateful for any advice you could give, no matter how crazy/unusual it sounds.

Best regards,

And thank you very much if you've read this far! :)

Tom
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