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I have been frequently checking
Facebook and
Google Plus Ruby Groups for jobs and general tips. Although a lot of it is still absolutely Greek to me I enjoy trying to figure out what people are talking about. I recently saw an individual post his Git to the facebook group and noticed that he was in Bloc. I quickly messaged him and to my surprise he was helpful and offered a good amount of encouraging info, especially with me starting
Bloc in 2 weeks!
I am very happy with the Ruby Community and pleased with their willingness to help new students.
*I changed his name to
Bill to protect his identity.
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Brian Douglas
I don't blow up the comments on your post, but do you have any advice for someone starting in in 2 weeks. I am nervous to start and want to do well.
Who is you mentor?
I am paired with the Adam guy.
Bill
I would just say that you need to pace yourself
make sure you schedule out at least 2-3 hours a night Monday-Friday
do you have any programming experience?
12/5, 4:42pm
Brian Douglas
I have done the tutorials and self taught with HTML,css, basic stuff though. Never really did anything with it. I have done all the pre reqs as well a codecademy. I guess no official experience
Bill
well they start you out with the basics but if there are areas you're not sure about take your time
the mentors make themselves very available and aren't condescending
you also have access, almost 24-7, to a live chat area called Office Hours
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Bill
a lot of people try to breeze through the first few weeks of checkpoints
so they can get to the project challenges and the capstone project
take your time to make sure you understand everything
do some extra reading on the side too
ask your mentor to recommend additional books and tuts
Brian Douglas
Awesome thanks. Are you planning getting career in development or starting a project. Do you feel well equipped
Bill
this is the Ruby bible http://it-ebooks.info/book/59/
I've been doing PHP, HTML and some basic jQuery
but wanted to learn Ruby and needed someone to kick my butt
Brian Douglas
Cool, I hope to get into freelancing after the program
Bill
I've done a lot of self study
and have a Bachelor in Web Design & Development from Full Sail University
honestly I wish I would have never done that degree and went straight to Bloc
you could definitely do it
a lot of grads from Bloc do
Brian Douglas
Wow, did you go to the Orlando full sail?
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Bill
but when I started they still were teaching Flash and ActionScript
they didn't change their curriculum until Jan 2011
I only got 1 class in PHP
Brian Douglas
Well good thing you didn't take that flash class
Bill
they made me take the Flash class
I took 6 months of Flash & ActionScript
not even Adobe supports Flash for mobile
I don't want to get on my soapbox
- and 2 classes in JavaScript
Brian Douglas
Oh, that's to bad. I actually considered going back to school but found Bloc
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Brian Douglas
I lam looking forward to it
Bill
Codecademy for JavaScript
JavaScript is very important for web application development now
and just websites in general
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Bill
if you need anything let me know
Brian Douglas
I appreciate that, I will
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man.. that conversation says it all!! we don't need to go back to "formal" school to learn to code, it can be done in so many other, less time-consuming and money-sucking ways.
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