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--></style></head><body lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><a href="http://codewars.com">codewars.com</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 April 2016 19:12:41 BST, Louis Goff-Beardsley <louis@infinitiumglobal.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Level Ruby Developer Guide 2016</a> ;)<p></p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Chat [mailto:chat-bounces@lists.lrug.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Yates<br />
<b>Sent:</b> 10 April 2016 10:51<br />
<b>To:</b> chat@lists.lrug.org<br />
<b>Subject:</b> [LRUG] Advice for a newbie<p></p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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:<p></p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1. How to prepare myself for working in (ruby) programming - i.e. what are useful things to know/learn beforehand.<p></p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">2. The best places to look for (and hopefully find) a job.<p></p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A bit about me:<p></p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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?<p></p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">And thank you very much if you've read this far! :)<p></p></span></p>
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