[LRUG] Advice for a newbie

[Jimmy MG Lim]

Hi Tom,

Practise makes perfect. I also recommend http://poignant.guide/ as a guide
for general ruby. Although bit of an overkill but selecting a front end
like angular / react (js) will also go a long way towards full-stack.

orz

Jimmy


On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 at 15:14 Riccardo Tacconi <rtacconi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While developing in Ruby, you will use the terminal a lot, so using a unix
> terminal (bash or zsh) is useful, this is a simple but good course
> http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/. I would lear Ruby from here:
> http://learnrubythehardway.org/ (it is the easiest way not the hardest).
> From the same author you can learn SQL too. Then you will need to learn
> HTML and CSS, try https://www.codecademy.com/learn/web. From code academy
> you can learn Javascript and Ruby too. To be honest you can use JavaScript
> for the frontend and backend too (nodejs) so you will have to learn just
> one programming language.
>
> You have a bachelor in natural languages, programming (artificial
> languages) are a bit different, they are something between natural
> languages and computer hardware. However Ruby is very expressive and you
> might find it not too difficult to understand. Programming languages like
> Haskell are coming from Maths (lambda calculus) and the look much more like
> Mathematics.
>
> So if I were you I would learn HTML and CSS, then JavaScript. Then you can
> decide if you want to learn nodejs (javaScript) or Ruby. Then SQL.
>
> I assumed that you want to learn web development.
>
> Good luck!
>
> On 10 April 2016 at 10:51, Tom Yates <tomy8s at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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