Josh, Welcome to SD!
Ruby is a great language, but to be honest it's not as popular in San Diego as it is in the Bay Area. The dominant languages here are PHP, C#, and Java. You can certainly still find a job here doing Ruby, and I've heard great things about the Dev Bootcamp. If you're open to working from home, in fact, there's a growing contingent of employers that'll hire remote developers. If you already know HTML/CSS, you might start by adding Javascript to your skillset. That'd get you a job as a front-end developer at a company regardless of what their server-side language is (php, ruby, python). From there, you could work your way down the stack in the language of your choice :) Good luck in your new career! Ron On Friday, September 27, 2013 12:43:50 PM UTC-7, Joshua Sherman wrote: > > Hi SD Ruby - I just left my career as a TV sitcom writer's assistant to > try something new in San Diego (my fiancé has a career here, and I made > myself choose her or Hollywood - so obviously her!). I'm 28, with a good > understanding of HTML/CSS, and I have a math-oriented brain. I took the > UCSD Intro to Programming Java class, but it left me wanting more. > > I don't know anything about Ruby, but Dev Bootcamp seems like a really fun > way to learn Ruby and come out with a basic understanding - enough to get a > Junior Developer job, maybe. Dev Bootcamp is in San Francisco, but > ultimately, I hope to work in San Diego. > > So my question: is Ruby a valuable language in San Diego? Or is it a > language better suited to the technologies being built in San Francisco? > > Thanks everyone! > > -Josh > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
