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Pragmatic Studios - Part 3

22/12/2014

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After finishing their Ruby course and being thoroughly impressed by the structure, the explanations and the overall approach to simplifying Ruby, I signed up for their Rails course and the Blocks and Iterators course. Just started Rails, it's a lesson you don't rush, so taking it one lesson a day. The reason it should be taken slowly is, like with their Ruby course, there are parallel projects happening while learning. That is, they teach using one app, and ask you to do another app using similar methods, so you need time to digest the information and apply it to two projects. If you have an idea for another app, you can start off on that as well. 
Meanwhile, I'm on their Blocks and Iterators course, which again deconstructs the topic beautifully with interactive, engaging diagrams/animation drawings. I take a screen shot of these drawings for future reference, like a ready reckoner of sorts.
Again,I keep wondering how did I miss this course? I remember seeing it while searching for online Ruby courses when I was caught by the coding bug, but for some reason didn't sign up. I am on Treehouse, Udemy and Tealeaf for Ruby, Rails and other courses but I strongly recommend Pragmatic Studios as the first step. I've also started re-taking the Ruby course, as a refresher, to relook at the concepts and see how I can apply them to say, a problem on Tealeaf. 
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Codecademy Ruby

17/11/2014

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I'm on Tealeaf Academy's Ruby course. To take a bit of diversion and supplement my Ruby adventure using an external source other than Tealeaf, I decided to take up the Codecademy Ruby as Chris suggested in one of his Tealeaf videos. 
I just finished it, about ten minutes ago. Took me a day and half of sitting in front of the computer, following the codes samples, exercises and googling some errors or referring to their Q&A section. It was a very smooth and enriching experience on the whole. The console wasn't buggy and the frustrating moments were few, thankfully. You must remember though, that the console expects every code to be letter-perfect down to the period or exclamation. For instance, if, in the exercise it tells you to 'puts "This is your balance!" and you miss out the !, it will keep throwing up errors. So develop a keen sight for these niggling punctuations. You will run into some minor errors but nothing that a short trip into the Q&A sphere can't solve. Or just google your problem and append it with Codecademy Ruby and someone else would have faced the problem in all likelihood.
The window to the left of the console where you get the instructions, and the intro is quite informative. I learnt a few things I didn't learn on other sites. I am on Team Treehouse as well, and they have a few Ruby and Rails courses. 
I'll see if I can post some issues I faced and how I managed to solve them in the next post. Meanwhile, I have to get back to creating a Blackjack game on Tealeaf.
Happy doing! 3.times {puts "Yay"}
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