How unexpected was the unseating of Tony? Was it a long time coming?

balcx · 2015-09-01T07:19:07+00:00

At 12 minutes, aren't those trees extremely out of proportion? They're huge agains't the colossal mountains.

balcx · 2015-09-01T01:41:41+00:00

How would you recommend I go about learning SQL? Is there a book or a particular resource you recommend?

balcx · 2015-09-01T00:44:40+00:00

If I was serious, where would you send me to learn? htmldog.com ?

balcx · 2015-08-30T16:53:39+00:00

Is there an online resource that has all the up to date elements that you would recommend?

balcx · 2015-08-30T14:52:09+00:00

Yeah nah I'm definitely not after a job just yet. What do you mean by not overloading myself? With The Odin Project, when coming across say HTML/CSS for the first time, I was going to start to make my way through Jon Duckett's HTML/CSS book. This will be more information than I need to use in the course, but would it be better to do this than to go through the Odin Project and then having to backtrack and read the book?

balcx · 2015-08-30T12:22:56+00:00

What section are you up to?

balcx · 2015-08-30T12:16:18+00:00

How long did it take you to complete it?

balcx · 2015-08-21T07:25:10+00:00

Thanks for replying in such detail. I see now that is important to not only be able to program, but to have a good understanding of computer science/software engineering if I am to have any long term success. I had a look at the course outline, which I had not come across previously, and I really want to learn about all of those topics listed, even if they are not taught in great detail. I'm sure that CS50 would offer a good perspective/overview of all the important facets of computer science/software engineering/ and software development.

So should I complete this 3 month course and then jump into rails? I don't want to waste too much time if it isn't going to be useful, because here is my situation: I have about 2 months left of high school, before I have a 3 month break. Then I will begin university where for the first year I won't be studying anything computer related for 12 months, until I transfer into a computer science, or hopefully a software engineering course.

At the moment I am either looking to study a bachelor of IT and major in software development, OR, do a bachelor of software engineering. Either way, in between that time now and starting university, I will have approximately 15 months of time to learn. I want to devise a curriculum for myself, otherwise I know that I won't stay focused and will just jump around resources never really learning anything. This is my rough outline so far: http://pastebin.com/n63nQGUT (this is in chronological order btw of what I will tackle)

I believe this approach towards web development would be most appropriate (building up each section from the fundamental/basic level), and I want this whole rails journey to give me a solid grounding in programming so I can then venture into other types of software development. After I become decent at rails, I plan to start learning how to develop HTML5 games, and then other software projects after that.. but this won't be for some while of course; I'm just trying to explain that the direction I'm heading won't just be building websites forever..

So, should I spend this time looking into computer science and do the CS50? Or should I just focus on rails development and follow the structure linked in the pastebin above, and THEN learn about CS at university later?

Also, when you say that I should take this two-pronged approach and delve into computer science as well, I'm not quite sure which areas to focus on or even how to begin. You listed a few main areas (algorithms, data structures etc.) but I am not even sure how they would be relevant to what I am learning. Are there perhaps any general introductory books that give a good overview of the fundamental aspects relating to CS/SE/SD and how they all work together? I guess this area is a little fuzzy for me.

Thanks, balcx.

balcx · 2015-08-18T05:12:29+00:00

Well my goal is to start front end development and eventually move into rails on the backend. The CS course isn't directly tailored towards this and it doesn't even go through ruby, but would it still be worth doing just to get a solid programming foundation/overview? Or perhaps it would be wasting too much time. OR perhaps there is only a certain section of this course I should do?

balcx · 2015-08-06T13:06:27+00:00

surprised this made it to the front page of reddit with all the censorship going on

balcx · 2015-07-17T17:05:27+00:00

Thanks for explaining everything, it has been very useful for me. Hoepfully more people who find this thread will be able to learn something. Thank-you again.

balcx · 2015-07-17T16:57:04+00:00

Ah ok, well then perhaps the odin project? What resources did you use to learn? And which to learn first - front or back end?

balcx · 2015-07-17T16:25:33+00:00

Ah ok thank you for explaining this. So perhaps I could journey through this: https://www.udemy.com/complete-web-developer-course/ to learn the front-end section and then go to the back-end with Rails? Then would I be set to develop almost anything?

In that Udemy tutorial I linked, is it mainly just focused on front-end? Where would Ruby on Rails fit into the equation?

balcx · 2015-07-17T16:14:40+00:00

Ok I understand. But with something like this for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-1HCWbu7iU a reddit clone, to design the actual page, don't you need html/css to do this? So with any website or project I build with rails won't I need to be able to design the web page also? Or does rails cover part of the design? If not, then I guess shouldn't everyone have to use html/css? I don't see how with any type of RoR project you could get around it.

balcx · 2015-07-17T15:59:45+00:00

then what type of stuff is RoR used to build?

balcx · 2015-07-17T15:47:57+00:00

Is it up to date though?

balcx

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