Dissecting Ruby on Rails 5 - Become a Professional Developer
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1 points • andreobrown
It can’t hurt to learn something new. And if you do it with a self-paced course, then there should be very little or no pressure on your studies. Don’t learn at the pace of university. It’s designed to teach you important and fundamental computer science stuff, but not at your pace. Semesters are there to make running a university manageable, not to enhance your learning experience.
Most computer science courses are also far removed from the real world stuff that most people end up doing (business applications). I think that learning Ruby on Rails at your own pace, while doing your degree, will ultimately make you a better programmer quicker.
When I was in university all the best programmers were people who were writing software. They were either learning additional stuff tangential to the course (eg. how to use UI libraries not covered in the course), or were already programmers but were not formally educated.
My only advice is that you do a course that is different in teaching method than your university course. I would recommend a video based course, perhaps something from Udemy. I did this Rails course and I can recommend it (if it’s more than $50, sign up, mark the course as a favourite, and wait for it to go on sale). It’s not heavy on theory, and that’s the idea: learn the practical stuff yourself while you are taught the theory in school.
Good luck! Let us know what you decide and how it goes.
[Edit: recommendation to buy the course when it goes on sale.]
1 points • nahuak
I'm learning Rails right now. I found this following flow quite helpful:
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Read 1/3 of Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial, get very confused by it.
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Do a Udemy course on Rails (such as by Jordan Hudgens), feel as if you knew more about Rails now.
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Find a simple personal project to do on your own (say the CS50W's Pinocchio Pizza shop web app), get constantly blocked by things you don't know how to do until StackOverflow isn't too helpful anymore (or you don't know how to ask the questions).
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Read Agile Web Development with Rails 6 (or 5.1), follow the project in the book, and re-read each chapter slowly. Now some blockers on step 3 are gone, and you'll feel like you actually know Rails a bit better.
Not a single resource is the best and a combination of them really helps. But caution that I'm a slow learner. This approach might not suit everyone.