[LRUG] Advice for a newbie

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On 10 April 2016 19:12:41 BST, Louis Goff-Beardsley <louis at infinitiumglobal.com> wrote:
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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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