I like the codeacademy lessons, but I miss coding in my own terminal. It's going good, I feel like I'm getting a lot out of it since I've been working on projects for the past month. More of a review than a first look for me.
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Showing posts with label bootcamps. Show all posts
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Thursday progress.
75% through Codeacademy's Ruby course. Hope to Will finish tomorrow. Could have maybe finished today, but spent some time researching online bootcamps again. Broke my 30 day github streak by switching gears to Codeacademy. Boo.
I like the codeacademy lessons, but I miss coding in my own terminal. It's going good, I feel like I'm getting a lot out of it since I've been working on projects for the past month. More of a review than a first look for me.
I like the codeacademy lessons, but I miss coding in my own terminal. It's going good, I feel like I'm getting a lot out of it since I've been working on projects for the past month. More of a review than a first look for me.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Wednesday's Progress
I'm taking a short break from working on Rails projects to go back to learn more Ruby. As I am gaining a better understanding of the Rails framework, I need to go back and get really solid on Ruby. I think I'll understand it better now since I've been building stuff with Rails. I started reading Beginning Ruby by Peter Cooper (while I was getting my hair done). I am also working through Codeacademy's Ruby course at home. It's going good! Definitely breezing through it so far, whew. I'm glad to find that I've understood more Ruby than I thought.
I finished reading Practicing Rails by J. Weiss this morning. I enjoyed it since the book is kind of like a pep talk to keep you going when you are starting out doing Rails and following tutorials...but its not worth it at its current price of 29$. I think the price was too much for what the book offered.
I also downloaded Sublime Text 2. I've been using Atom (free) since I started coding and originally setup my dev environment, but I want to try out what else is out there. I customized the theme and font and some other options. Looking forward to trying it out more.
I'm still debating the online bootcamps. I emailed Tealeaf to see if they've had any success stories/students from the Netherlands and they didn't know of any. That was kinda disappointing for me. The core problem I have with the online bootcamps (besides the high cost) is getting the relevant mentorship that is going to help me get a job HERE. I'm ambitious; I have no problem putting in the hard work and to get better at this stuff. Yesterday, I stumbled upon a possible jr dev/internship position which I am extremely interested in, and I've applied for it... this would really be the ideal situation for me, but I will just have to wait and see.
I finished reading Practicing Rails by J. Weiss this morning. I enjoyed it since the book is kind of like a pep talk to keep you going when you are starting out doing Rails and following tutorials...but its not worth it at its current price of 29$. I think the price was too much for what the book offered.
I also downloaded Sublime Text 2. I've been using Atom (free) since I started coding and originally setup my dev environment, but I want to try out what else is out there. I customized the theme and font and some other options. Looking forward to trying it out more.
I'm still debating the online bootcamps. I emailed Tealeaf to see if they've had any success stories/students from the Netherlands and they didn't know of any. That was kinda disappointing for me. The core problem I have with the online bootcamps (besides the high cost) is getting the relevant mentorship that is going to help me get a job HERE. I'm ambitious; I have no problem putting in the hard work and to get better at this stuff. Yesterday, I stumbled upon a possible jr dev/internship position which I am extremely interested in, and I've applied for it... this would really be the ideal situation for me, but I will just have to wait and see.
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