Staying excited after getting excited

What to do after Rails Girls and how to stay excited from the experience of a Rails Girls Tallinn alumna

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1. Staying excited after getting excited Esta Prangel esta.prangel@gmail.com
2. Before Rails Girls
3. Getting excited is not enough!
4. How to stay excited? Do something! Start realizing your idea step-by-step and learn as you go OR follow Michael Hartl's RoR tutorial!
5. Michael Hartl's RoR tutorial www.railstutorial.org
6. Pros and cons Pros • accessible for a complete noob • you actually create something impressive (unlike tryruby.org or codecademy.com) • version control (Git), testing (RSpec), deployment (Heroku) • lots of Q&A on stackoverflow.com
7. Pros and cons Cons • easy to copy and paste without understanding anything
8. What I learned from it • don't print the book • indent style (tabs, spaces, braces etc) is very important • read the error messages
9. Other learning possibilities www.coursera.org Computer Science 101 Available in self-study mode Learn to Program: The Fundamentals Next session: 24 September 2012 (7 weeks long) Workload: 6-8 hours/week An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python Next session: 15 October 2012 (8 weeks long) Workload: 7-9 hours/week
10. Thanks for listening! Questions? Comments?