[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcISipVTxck"]Learning Ruby on Rails in 26 Days: Prelude - YouTube[/ame]
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26 Days of Commitment: A Video Journal
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You look and sound like such a marine, lol (that's a good thing, not a bad thing).
I don't know, everyone learns differently, but best advice I can give is don't waste too much time trying to memorize the syntax, structure, and function names of a programming language. Instead, jump right in, pick a problem, and learn how to solve it via programming. Once resolved, pick a harder more complex problem, and learn how to solve that. Then just keep going, and you'll eventually have something decent. Maybe open a small site, and offer it for free to garner some name recognition and a mailing list. Then keep going, until you have something commercially viable that people will part with their hard earned money for.
Probably the most frustrating way to learn, but probably also the best, as it's what will turn you into a creative developer / problem solver. Knowing a programming language doesn't mean shit, and is not what's going to get you paid. Being a creative problem solver is what matters, and is what the size of your monthly income will depend on. That's why this bullshit about what language to use doesn't really matter much. What matters is your creativity and problem solving ability.
Good luck!
I don't know, everyone learns differently, but best advice I can give is don't waste too much time trying to memorize the syntax, structure, and function names of a programming language. Instead, jump right in, pick a problem, and learn how to solve it via programming. Once resolved, pick a harder more complex problem, and learn how to solve that. Then just keep going, and you'll eventually have something decent. Maybe open a small site, and offer it for free to garner some name recognition and a mailing list. Then keep going, until you have something commercially viable that people will part with their hard earned money for.
Probably the most frustrating way to learn, but probably also the best, as it's what will turn you into a creative developer / problem solver. Knowing a programming language doesn't mean shit, and is not what's going to get you paid. Being a creative problem solver is what matters, and is what the size of your monthly income will depend on. That's why this bullshit about what language to use doesn't really matter much. What matters is your creativity and problem solving ability.
Good luck!
He told me on Skype he hasn't killed anyone yet, so he's more Smedley Butler than GI Joe and THAT IS A GOOD FUCKING THING.
Thanks, and banking on the skill is certainly an end-goal but making money within three weeks is not the current goal. Just for clarification.
You might be interested in this, Bofu2u put me on this yesterday:
http://railsapps.github.com/rails-stripe-membership-saas/
Apparently someone Open Sourced a subscription with recurring billing platform which utilizes Stripe. Now if you understood what I said, Rails Boys might get a hard-on.
I don't know if dchuk's seen it, but its directly from the vault of Bofu.
This skips paypal and uses the latest Golden child Stripe, uses gay on fails, I mean ruby on rails, and is a recurring subscription platform to build off of.
Now imagine creating a service or business around setting up small to medium size businesses that need a solution that's more out of the box for recurring subscription, without gaypal, with your new skills?
Don't forget my 15%.
Good luck bro, I'm rooting for you.
http://railsapps.github.com/rails-stripe-membership-saas/
Apparently someone Open Sourced a subscription with recurring billing platform which utilizes Stripe. Now if you understood what I said, Rails Boys might get a hard-on.
I don't know if dchuk's seen it, but its directly from the vault of Bofu.
This skips paypal and uses the latest Golden child Stripe, uses gay on fails, I mean ruby on rails, and is a recurring subscription platform to build off of.
Now imagine creating a service or business around setting up small to medium size businesses that need a solution that's more out of the box for recurring subscription, without gaypal, with your new skills?
Don't forget my 15%.
Good luck bro, I'm rooting for you.
Building on the shoulders of giants is what makes creating internet stuff so rewarding.
fftopic:
I did the same thing for php and learned to code fairly well really fast - and got enough skill to eventually roll out two different web applications I fully coded myself. One was a virtual currency processing platform and the other one a social sharing site.
The way I did it was I watched two Lynda tutorials, starter and advanced in the first 3 days. I didn't do this to actually learn to code but to get a really good overall understanding of the programming language and its syntax.
After that I just jumped in coding of a simple web application I had in mind. Here's when it gets fun.
You have no idea what you're doing but you know exactly what you want to achieve. So I was 24/7 on google looking for code examples and basically raping stackoverflow. This is IMO the absolute fastest way to learn how to code. You just start building from nothing and in order to be able to integrate code you get curious what it does and how it works. It just sucks you in and it's a really fun process.
Doing it this way you won't need to memorize anything or even try to force yourself to remember how a language works because your brain will automatically soak it in and it will be effortless.
GL
The way I did it was I watched two Lynda tutorials, starter and advanced in the first 3 days. I didn't do this to actually learn to code but to get a really good overall understanding of the programming language and its syntax.
After that I just jumped in coding of a simple web application I had in mind. Here's when it gets fun.
You have no idea what you're doing but you know exactly what you want to achieve. So I was 24/7 on google looking for code examples and basically raping stackoverflow. This is IMO the absolute fastest way to learn how to code. You just start building from nothing and in order to be able to integrate code you get curious what it does and how it works. It just sucks you in and it's a really fun process.
Doing it this way you won't need to memorize anything or even try to force yourself to remember how a language works because your brain will automatically soak it in and it will be effortless.
GL