if you could work through this entire guide front to back, you'll be a very competent rails coder: Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example | Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book and screencasts | by Michael Hartl
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^^ I have that on DVD. I started it and all it was on about was github. As I don't really know what github is for, I backed out until I'm a bit more knowledgable.
github is just a nice web front end for hosting your git repositories. Git repositories are for version control, they allow you to track changes in your app as you code it out.
Don't let the mention of github stop you, that tutorial is hands down the best for learning Rails
Excellent, that sounds good. I was planning on going through it once my knowledge was greater, as the book I'm currently working through is excellent. I really like Rails so plan to increase my learning consistently. I have a site running on a CMS I built in PHP & MySQL some years back that needs some updates/tweaks. I plan to rebuild that using Rails as my first project.
Hi,
Good to hear from you. You would need to be specialized in a scripting languages like PHP, Perl, Python, or Ruby. Python is generally the house language at Google, and Ruby has some exciting feature. PHP is very broadly used, and was developed for webdev in the first place, but there are lots of smart people using the other ones.
If you decide to go with PHP, you might want to get the book Web Application Development with PHP & MySQL. It doesn't get into any frameworks, and it doesn't go into a lot of depth regarding either PHP or MySQL, but it will get you started.
You would need to learn at least a little about MySQL.
Then, you might want to learn one of the webdev frameworks. These take over a lot of the low-level gruntwork involved in accessing the database, building the HTML, etc, and more or less force you into certain programming practices for your own good. For Ruby, it's the widely-known Ruby on Rails; for Python it's Django. There are a few for PHP also.
You probably don't need to mess with java.
Best regards,
Jeffrey Koertzen
Good to hear from you. You would need to be specialized in a scripting languages like PHP, Perl, Python, or Ruby. Python is generally the house language at Google, and Ruby has some exciting feature. PHP is very broadly used, and was developed for webdev in the first place, but there are lots of smart people using the other ones.
If you decide to go with PHP, you might want to get the book Web Application Development with PHP & MySQL. It doesn't get into any frameworks, and it doesn't go into a lot of depth regarding either PHP or MySQL, but it will get you started.
You would need to learn at least a little about MySQL.
Then, you might want to learn one of the webdev frameworks. These take over a lot of the low-level gruntwork involved in accessing the database, building the HTML, etc, and more or less force you into certain programming practices for your own good. For Ruby, it's the widely-known Ruby on Rails; for Python it's Django. There are a few for PHP also.
You probably don't need to mess with java.
Best regards,
Jeffrey Koertzen
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