[Rails] Re: new college student

2010-03-25 Thread SMR
I live in Chicago, IL - I am attending DePaul University as a grad student. They have a Ruby on Rails certification program that does give some academic credit if your son is pursuing a full blown degree. It was designed as a free-standing program, so it would certainly qualify as "community colleg

[Rails] Re: new college student

2010-03-25 Thread Adam Stegman
Absolutely. Ruby is just one language. It's a great one, but that can't be the focus of your education. Most schools won't teach Ruby, but if he wants to work in it he has several options while he's at school: 1) work on his own side projects -- he should do this anyway, in many languages, not just

[Rails] Re: new college student

2010-03-25 Thread ct9a
Most large academic institutions don't take ruby very seriously. The closest is perl. Common ones would be java and perhaps .Net (shrugs). get some basic understanding of programming, a good book on ruby and google for rails tutorials. The railsguides online and Ryan Bates' webcasts are great!