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Staying excited after getting excited Esta Prangel esta.prangel@gmail.com
Before Rails Girls
Getting excited is not enough!
How to stay excited? Do something! Start realizing your idea step-by-step and learn as you go OR follow Michael Hartl's RoR tutorial!
Michael Hartl's RoR tutorial www.railstutorial.org
Pros and cons Pros ● accessible for a complete noob ● you actually create something impressive (unlike tryruby.org or codecademy.com) ● version control (Git), testing (RSpec), deployment (Heroku) ● lots of Q&A on stackoverflow.com
Pros and cons Cons ● easy to copy and paste without understanding anything
What I learned from it ● don't print the book ● indent style (tabs, spaces, braces etc) is very important ● read the error messages
Other learning possibilities www.coursera.org Computer Science 101 Available in self-study mode Learn to Program: The Fundamentals Next session: 24 September 2012 (7 weeks long) Workload: 6-8 hours/week An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python Next session: 15 October 2012 (8 weeks long) Workload: 7-9 hours/week
Thanks for listening! Questions? Comments?

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Staying excited after getting excited by Esta Prangel

  • 1. Staying excited after getting excited Esta Prangel esta.prangel@gmail.com
  • 3. Getting excited is not enough!
  • 4. How to stay excited? Do something! Start realizing your idea step-by-step and learn as you go OR follow Michael Hartl's RoR tutorial!
  • 5. Michael Hartl's RoR tutorial www.railstutorial.org
  • 6. Pros and cons Pros ● accessible for a complete noob ● you actually create something impressive (unlike tryruby.org or codecademy.com) ● version control (Git), testing (RSpec), deployment (Heroku) ● lots of Q&A on stackoverflow.com
  • 7. Pros and cons Cons ● easy to copy and paste without understanding anything
  • 8. What I learned from it ● don't print the book ● indent style (tabs, spaces, braces etc) is very important ● read the error messages
  • 9. Other learning possibilities www.coursera.org Computer Science 101 Available in self-study mode Learn to Program: The Fundamentals Next session: 24 September 2012 (7 weeks long) Workload: 6-8 hours/week An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python Next session: 15 October 2012 (8 weeks long) Workload: 7-9 hours/week
  • 10. Thanks for listening! Questions? Comments?