I gave a talk at Rails Girls Berlin today about how I learned to code all on my own and turned it into a job. There have been several requests already to see the slides, so I wanted to get them up right away. I hope to add all the links in the talk as links on this article soon, as well as additional resources that I didn’t have time for in the talk. For now, enjoy the slides!
[update (5 May 2013)] I gave a slightly revised version of the talk at the Rails Girls Berlin 1st Anniversary workshop. The revised slide deck can be found here. [end update]
My projects
Rails, Git, Heroku, and Stack Overflow
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl (book)
- GitHub
- git-scm.com
- Pro Git
- Stack Overflow
- Search Stack Overflow with Google
- Heroku
- Heroku Dev Center
- Search Heroku Dev Center with Google
- Rails Guides
- Rails API
Development Tools
- Rubular (experiment with regular expressions, a.k.a. ‘regexes’)
- Markdown (simple formatting used by Github and Stack Overflow for user comments; can also be used for user input from your projects!)
- Pow (Mac-only local server tool; you can use this instead of firing up
rails s)
Design Tools
- Twitter Bootstrap
- HSL Picker (play with colors and get 3 different ways of writing each color)
- Visual Mess (guide to design basics)
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Thanks for sharing! So inspiring! I just attended a railsgirls workshop and I’m trying to absorb as much as I can right now so I can start building my own web apps and find work.