Breakable Toys

This is a lightning talk about a way to teach yourself programming concepts, languages, frameworks, etc by making small examples. I have used them throughout the years to learn new things by putting them into practice with a small idea.

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1. Breakable Toys Breakable Toys Neil Bailey
3. @martinisoft @martinisoft
4. How can I get better at programming ruby javascript etc...? How can I get better at programming ruby javascript etc...?
5. Simple Simple
6. breakable toy breakable toy
7. ??? ???
8. It’s a small project that teaches you something you didn’t know before. It’s a small project that teaches you something you didn’t know before.
9. it’s an Experiment it’s an Experiment
10. It will help you apply concepts to learn something new. It will help you apply concepts to learn something new.
11. They don’t need to be perfect. Hence the breakable part. They don’t need to be perfect. Hence the breakable part.
12. GO SIMPLE GO SIMPLE
13. GO SIMPLE GO SIMPLE
14. Make it FUN! Make it FUN!
15. take a RISK! take a RISK!
16. Consider open-sourcing them. It may help someone else learn. Consider open-sourcing them. It may help someone else learn.
17. Maintain them! Revise the concept to apply new knowledge. Maintain them! Revise the concept to apply new knowledge.
18. Re-inventing the wheel is ok. I’d encourage it. Re-inventing the wheel is ok. I’d encourage it.
19. My Breakable Toys My Breakable Toys
20. snitch reports who’s in the office by querying your router learned: SNMP, Renee
21. funnies A webcomic scraper that makes a news feed of the images learned: Rails, Nokogiri, XPath, Image Attachments, many more
22. listbotto PHP Frontend to Spatial Audio Manager learned: API’s, XML, ADODB
23. scriptular Local Regular Expression tester for Ruby/Javascript learned: Regex, Spine.js, Sinatra, Rubygems, Jasmine
24. Check them out! https:/ /github.com/martinisoft Check them out! https:/ /github.com/martinisoft
25. RECAP RECAP
26. breakable toy breakable toy
27. it’s an Experiment it’s an Experiment
28. GO SIMPLE GO SIMPLE
29. Make it FUN! Make it FUN!
30. take a RISK! take a RISK!
31. Now, go make your breakable toy breakable toy Now, go make your
32. thanks! thanks!
33. @martinisoft @martinisoft