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Breakable Toys

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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Aaron Kalin

May 01, 2012
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  1. How can I get better at programming ruby javascript etc...?

    How can I get better at programming ruby javascript etc...?
  2. 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.
  3. It will help you apply concepts to learn something new.

    It will help you apply concepts to learn something new.
  4. They don’t need to be perfect. Hence the breakable part.

    They don’t need to be perfect. Hence the breakable part.
  5. Consider open-sourcing them. It may help someone else learn. Consider

    open-sourcing them. It may help someone else learn.
  6. Maintain them! Revise the concept to apply new knowledge. Maintain

    them! Revise the concept to apply new knowledge.
  7. funnies A webcomic scraper that makes a news feed of

    the images learned: Rails, Nokogiri, XPath, Image Attachments, many more