How I got started in Ruby & Rails after a RailsBridge Workshop

Slides from my talk at RubyFuza in Cape Town, South Africa - Feb'15.

When I started as an accountant at GitHub a little over 2 years ago I didn't know anything about coding. After a Railsbridge workshop I had the minimum technical knowledge to start hacking on side projects.

As they say, it takes a village. I wasn't alone in my learning process & many people offered to help and paired with me along the way.

Now 2 years later, I've commited to several internal rails apps and am continuing to build my technical skill set as a Data Analyst.

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1. How I got started in Ruby & Rails after a RailsBridge Workshop
2. Alyson La Accountant @ GitHub Since October 2012
3. Alyson La Data Analyst @ GitHub Since 2 weeks ago
4. Nov. 3, 2012: Yesterday I learned what it means to fork, commit, & push! Today = Railsbridge. Woot!
5. Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women
6. Meta IRB MVC scaffold variable parameters method conditional server Localhost git Heroku cd ls
12. My First Pull Request
16. Let me know if I can help!
17. @glenngillen
19. Back for Seconds
20. Internal Apps
21. @jonmagic
23. You only live once, that’s the motto, #YOLO
24. +
28. THE TEAM APP
29. #realtalk
30. Sheetsee.js @jllord
35. Aspiring Hacker
38. MTK
41. Thanks!