Staying excited aftergetting excited

Esta Prangelesta.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 101Available in self-study mode

Learn to Program: The FundamentalsNext session: 24 September 2012 (7 weeks long)Workload: 6-8 hours/week

An Introduction to Interactive Programming in PythonNext session: 15 October 2012 (8 weeks long)Workload: 7-9 hours/week

Thanks for listening!

Questions? Comments?