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Best list of Rails lessons yet.

9/29/2015

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Instead of listing out I'll just link to MacKenzie Childs list. 

https://medium.com/@mackenziechild/how-you-can-finally-learn-to-build-stuff-with-rails-eff61e7bcb6f?__s=d5jaaaqqxfju9itv9xup

Having searched in this space for the last few months I'm certain that this is very comprehensive.

His 12 weeks of rails videos are great as well although they don't include any deployment tips which makes them a bit frustrating to retro deploy. Other than that well worth playing around with
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MacKenzie Child - Rails 4 - Wikipedia Clone Tutorial Review

9/16/2015

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Beginner   level:  10+ hrs with rails

Format:   video and github files

I've just completed this 1hr and 10 minutes hour long video tutorial. It is one of a series of 12 which show quick and raw versions of popular web applications using Rails 4

It took me about 4 hours to complete when you include breaks, bugs and mistakes. Overall I found it to be pretty straightforward and only had to copy and paste the Github file once.

I still couldn't explain the whole thing to someone but I am starting to understand how models interact a bit better as a result. I am now enthused to try a few others in this series.

http://mackenziechild.me/12-in-12/9/



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Drilling the Basics

9/1/2015

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Aside from programming I am learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ). The one common thing you hear in both programming and BJJ is that understanding and going over the fundamental concepts is probably the most valuable thing that you can do.

In both disciplines there seems to be new techniques and practices emerging all the time. It sometimes leads to panic that you are not learning the latest thing and can be left behind. While some of these techniques may well be adopted, experienced practitioners with tell you that most of them won't. So for early stage learning its probably best to just keep drilling the basics.
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Breaking a rut

9/1/2015

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I have spent the last month bouncing between short tutorials without making much progress.  Anxiety mounts and progress slows. Only by going back to the course that I enjoyed most, although didn't fully understand at the time, have I been able to break this rut. For me that was baserails.com/etsydemo

Other tactics I have developed in order to keep momentum are.

1. Don't finish your learning session on a bug or somewhere you are stuck. You will feel anxious just coming back to it.

2. Finish a section of the tutorial and skim over the next part without starting it. This will serve to allow you estimate how long it might take and for me reduces the anxiety in starting a potential black hole of confusion.

3. Finish and start with Anki.  2-3 long term memory takeaways from each learning session is enough for me. I have only recently accepted that I couldn't explain what rake routes,  generate scaffold and generate listing even did. This in spite of the fact that I have now typed them all 15+ times.
http://ankisrs.net/






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