I'm following the road map laid out in "No Degree, No Problem" by Joshua Kemp. This guy really impressed me with his goal to become a self-taught developer in 8 months. He started out shoeing horses and now is a junior developer. Amazing!
I hit a snag in the first step of the plan which was to buy a Mac Book. So instead my wonderful wife let me steal her old laptop and replace the OS with a Linux OS. Hopefully this wont create any issues. I've never really used a Linux system before.
I was able to get Ruby, Rails, Sublime Text and Git all set up and running correctly without doing to much Goggling. Then I spent the last two days learning the command line.
Using the command line takes me back to when I was in elementary school and we used the old Apple IIe's. Man did I love making that triangle move around the screen. It blew my mind that you could type all these simple commands and get the triangle to move any which way.
Well tomorrow I start following a pretty hard course from a developer boot camp called Epicodus to start my journey to learning web development with RoR.
I am also looking to join a couple of Ruby meetup groups. Hopefully they wont notice my inexperience right away and I can learn a lot just hanging out with some developers.
-Ryan
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