Comments from a non programmer who keeps meaning to learn:
I like that your first step is 5-10 hours, feels much more realistic than those guides that say you can become a master in ten seconds and makes me trust you.
I like that the second step includes explanation of things like github, I keep being linked to it but have no idea how to extract anything useful from the website.
I have now worked out that “rails” is short for “ruby on rails” and is a “web application framework” not a programming language.
I barely understand the rest, but I like the periodic reminders to reevaluate your priorities. Makes for a nice change from the programming evangelists.
I’ll try and work my way through your recommendations and let you know how it goes.
Never really got anywhere. Its long enough ago that I don’t really remember why, but think I generally found it unengaging. Have periodically tried to teach myself programming through different methods since then but none have stuck. This probably speaks to the difficulty of learning new skills when you have limited time/energy resources, and no specific motivation, more than anything else. (Have had similar difficulties with language learning, but got past them due to short term practical benefits, and devoting specific time to the task).
Comments from a non programmer who keeps meaning to learn:
I like that your first step is 5-10 hours, feels much more realistic than those guides that say you can become a master in ten seconds and makes me trust you.
I like that the second step includes explanation of things like github, I keep being linked to it but have no idea how to extract anything useful from the website.
I have now worked out that “rails” is short for “ruby on rails” and is a “web application framework” not a programming language.
I barely understand the rest, but I like the periodic reminders to reevaluate your priorities. Makes for a nice change from the programming evangelists.
I’ll try and work my way through your recommendations and let you know how it goes.
Now that it’s been about a month, I’m curious—were you ever able to start working on the programming guide? No worries if you haven’t!
Still slowly working my way through codeacademy, intending to do the rest once I’m done. Will try and keep you updated
How did it go? Please share even if it didn’t work out it could be helpful for others.
Never really got anywhere. Its long enough ago that I don’t really remember why, but think I generally found it unengaging. Have periodically tried to teach myself programming through different methods since then but none have stuck. This probably speaks to the difficulty of learning new skills when you have limited time/energy resources, and no specific motivation, more than anything else. (Have had similar difficulties with language learning, but got past them due to short term practical benefits, and devoting specific time to the task).
How’s it going?
Thanks for the compliments. I look forward to it!
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Hopefully it will make sense once you get there. Let me know if it doesn’t!
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Well, Ruby is the programming language and Rails is the framework.