Railscasts.com is an excellent resource. The one person behind railscasts
took a hiatus a few months ago and has not returned just yet so he's
offering people who sign up now to pay the monthly subscription fee ($9
USD) just once and you get access to all the railscasts and there won't be
anot
I used to be a bookstore manager. I switched to an computer repair technician,
now I'm mostly a programmer. A couple of resources that helped me are:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org
http://railscasts.com
http://api.rubyonrails.org
http://ruby-doc.org
I return to these over and over again to help k
It's refreshing to know I'm not the only one out there! I'm still just
at the beginning of switching paths, but I've been working my tail off.
I've become addicted to ProjectEuler.com and it's helping a lot. It's
great practice using the kind of mindset Tamouse was speaking of.
I think my next
Lynda.com has some good courses in fundamentals of object oriented
programming.
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:04 PM, tamouse pontiki wrote:
> IMO, the *single* most important thing to switch to becoming a
> developer is to understand how to structure and break down problems
> into solvable software c
IMO, the *single* most important thing to switch to becoming a
developer is to understand how to structure and break down problems
into solvable software components. To me, this far more important than
learning any particular language, as designing solutions to problems
is at the heart of software
Interesting story. I can tell you are in the same boat as myself.
I am moving on from the oil industry with background in geophysics into
starting our own small IT company with a friend (our products are mainly
build on Ruby+Rails). My interest for RoR
started 2-3 years ago and I have since lear
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one. I'm an operations manager for a
natural food manufacturer who through his working career discovered a love
for databases (i really like to normalize data - if you have some data
needs, let me know) and after a bunch of fits and starts with asp, php,
etc..
Hello,
I am currently studying hard to switch careers also. I'm currently a
musician (drummer) and am learning on my own. I have found a lot of
resources online and many great books already. I was planning on writing a
blog post about that so I'll try to do that soon. Keep an eye out at
drumus
Awesome! Thanks Dave. What about some books that anyone has found really
helpful? Doesn't even have to be rails specifically, anything would
help.
Thanks!
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