Episode 208: 202 RR The Struggles New Ruby Users Have with Jake Day Williams

Ruby Rogues

• Episode: Episode 208: 202 RR The Struggles New Ruby Users Have with Jake Day Williams
• Website: Ruby Rogues
• Feed URL: https://feeds.feedwrench.com/RubyRogues.rss
• Duration: 00:58:47
• Published: 2015-04-08 15:00

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03:19 - Jake Day Williams Introduction

• Twitter
• Wild Academy
• [YouTube] Wild Academy
• Learn Ruby: The Beginner Guide: An Introduction to Ruby Programming by Jake Day Williams
• Learn PHP: The Beginner Guide: An Introduction to PHP Programming by Jake Day Williams

03:48 - What Do New People Struggle With?

04:59 - Teaching While Learning and Video Tutorials vs In-Person Training

• Resources:
  • Lynda
  • The Ultimate Guide to Coding Bootcamps: The Exhaustive List
• Being a “Self-Starter”  
• The EntreProgrammers Episode 51: Ship 'em Pears with Jake Day Williams
• “Work the system that does exist, not the system we wish exists.”
• Impostor Syndrome
• RailsClips
  • RailsClips Kickstarter Campaign
• Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
  • Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
• Blender Guru: Andrew Price

16:59 - Responsibility

• As Teachers
  • Planet Money Podcast: The App Economy with Marco Arment of Instapaper
• Gauging Your Own Success
• Digital Content (Updating)
  • Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails by Michael Hartl

23:05 - Feedback

• Trolling and Criticism (Niceness vs Directness)
• David Brady: Ruby Hashes and David Brady: Associative Arrays with James Edward Gray II Example
• The Job Replacement Guide by David Brady

26:22 - Leveling Up and Monetizing Content

• “MPP” (Multiple Payout Potential)
• Ethics and Morals
• Long-term Sustainability

33:26 - Impostor Syndrome and The Dunning–Kruger Effect

• Lara Hogan: On having a totally reasonable amount of self-confidence

37:42 - Is the Ruby Community Beginner-Friendly?

• thoughtbot's Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots Podcast
• The Ruby on Rails Podcast: 148: Chad Pytel of thoughtbot discusses @dhh's RailsConf 2014 keynote (and more)  

42:50 - Content Production: Is it a barrier to entry?

• Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande

Picks

Survivorship Bias (Saron)
Laurent Bossavit: 10X Programmer and other Myths in Software Engineering (Jessica)
Rachel Nabors: The Hating Game (Coraline)
How to Poo on a Date: The Lovers' Guide to Toilet Etiquette by Mats (David)
How to Poo at Work by Mats (David)
How to Poo on Holiday by Mats (David)
Steelheart (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck)
Gitter (Chuck)
The Entreprogrammers Podcast (Jake)
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg (Jake)
Laura Sydell: The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech (Jake)

 

Special Guest: Jake Day Williams.