Ever-growing Ruby list
1. LRTHW
2. Chris Pine
3. Ruby Bits
4. Ruby Koans
Monday, notes to self
- Progress: 90% through with Codecademy Ruby. Learned Blocs, Procs & Lambdas. SPLAT. Twitter API with Ruby, learning to parse XML, JSON. HTTP: GET POST PUT UPDATE.
- This week I’d like to finish Codecademy Ruby by tomorrow. Finish Learn Ruby the Hard Way. Test myself this weekend with the rest of Ruby Bits. Continue to read the end of Chris Pine.
- My next post will be on my Jekyll blog. Which I’ll use Git on.
- Ps, self, how great are these API intros? Like this one on NHTSA? www.codecademy.com/tracks/nhtsa
Journalism & tech bookshelf
An ideal bookshelf:
Start with some history -
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Tim Wu
- Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
Visualizing data -
- Visualize This, Nathan Yau
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte
Reference -
- The Elements of Style, E.B. White
I need a more in-depth book on cartography and mapping. Maybe an “Elements of Style” for data visualization, if such exists.
Progress.
Reviewing front-end
- Finished HTML, CSS, Responsive Design, Sass and Try Ruby in Code School
- Finished Web Fundamentals on Codecademy
- Reading Advanced CSS (Shay Howe)
Back-end: Ruby
- Finished Learn Command Line the Hard Way (Zed Shaw)
- Obsessively Typing.io
- Up to Exercise 35 of Learn Ruby the Hard Way (Zed Shaw)
- Up to Chapter 8 of Learn to Program (Chris Pine)
- Up to Course 7 on Codecademy: Ruby
- Making flashcards now…
Done this week so far
■ Learn Command Line the Hard Way: http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/
■ Command Line Tutorial: http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/command-line/
My intentions
Today I continue to pedal on through a never-ending learning journey to make (web) apps.
By September 15, 2013, I will learn back-end scripting, databases and become an as-full-stack-as-I-can developer.
To have culture, people have to participate in society; to have political change, people have to vote and organize; to have global economic success, companies must make products that the world wants. None of this happened [in Japan], however, and in its place, we got nothing new…
We all know that 2013 will just see a little more slouching in the same direction — more nothing. And while the stakes are getting higher and higher for this great nation to turn things around, the stakes for any individual action, field, or event could not feel any lower.
“
| — | W. David MARX, in Neojaponisme on The Year 2012 in Japan |
