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Switching career and get a programming job, would love it to be something in Ruby on Rails. Be it permanent, remote, freelance, part time, whatever. I tried di

by kahfei 14y ago

Switching career and get a programming job, would love it to be something in Ruby on Rails. Be it permanent, remote, freelance, part time, whatever. I tried different approaches this year, so far nothing come out of it. One gig was discontinued as the owner decided to switch to a local developer. The other project took half a year now and still no further progress from the owner. Just attended an interview which didn't work out. As someone already mentioned, have fun with my son. Am teaching him Scratch at the moment, hopefully can complete a simple game by end of November :-)

Nathandim 14y ago
Nice to find someone who's sharing goals with me. Though I have to admit I'm not exactly new in programming, my goal for this month is to learn programming concepts (algorithms etc.) in order to prepare myself for the switch to RoR. I must clarify that I'm beginning with Python mostly because I'm having trouble finding good programming lessons that use Ruby. This is a comment from a fellow HN user that I use for reference in material https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709336
- kahfei 14y ago
  Hi Nathan, I think there are quite a few good tutorials for Ruby and Ruby on Rails too, perhaps you already know some of them like Ruby http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram http://rubymonk.com http://rubymonk.com http://rubykoans.com http://rubykoans.com http://rubybits2.codeschool.com/levels/1 http://rubybits2.codeschool.com/levels/1 Ruby on Rails, http://railscasts.com http://railscasts.com http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book https://class.coursera.org/saas/lecture/preview/index https://class.coursera.org/saas/lecture/preview/index #coursera saas course with ruby on rails as medium Challenges or puzzle https://www.hackerrank.com https://www.hackerrank.com

by kahfei 14y ago

Nathandim 14y ago

Nice to find someone who's sharing goals with me. Though I have to admit I'm not exactly new in programming, my goal for this month is to learn programming concepts (algorithms etc.) in order to prepare myself for the switch to RoR. I must clarify that I'm beginning with Python mostly because I'm having trouble finding good programming lessons that use Ruby. This is a comment from a fellow HN user that I use for reference in material https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709336

kahfei 14y ago
Hi Nathan, I think there are quite a few good tutorials for Ruby and Ruby on Rails too, perhaps you already know some of them like Ruby http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram http://rubymonk.com http://rubymonk.com http://rubykoans.com http://rubykoans.com http://rubybits2.codeschool.com/levels/1 http://rubybits2.codeschool.com/levels/1 Ruby on Rails, http://railscasts.com http://railscasts.com http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book https://class.coursera.org/saas/lecture/preview/index https://class.coursera.org/saas/lecture/preview/index #coursera saas course with ruby on rails as medium Challenges or puzzle https://www.hackerrank.com https://www.hackerrank.com