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24 alternatives to all I wanted to do was learn Rails - ended up going way further
This is a personal project that documents one developer's journey beyond initial Rails learning goals. Started in 2012, it serves as a record of how a straightforward programming education effort expanded into… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. all I wanted to do was learn Rails - ended up going way further launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Codecademy's new learning interface now teaches you Rails
2015 · codecademy.com · its alternatives →
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I've been a longtime member @ HN, but I haven't been a developer. In fact, my only HN submission has been one asking how to learn to code (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820741). My cofounder and I decided to solve the problem by making a simple, interactive way to get started with Codecademy. We'd love your feedback. If you're interested in helping us to get more courses up (on any topic!), please send us an email at [email protected].
2011 · codecademy.com · its alternatives →
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One Month Rails▲104The easiest way ever developed to Learn to Code
2013 · onemonth.com · its alternatives →
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Practicing Rails▲104Learn Rails without getting overwhelmed.
2014 · justinweiss.com · its alternatives →
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DHH talks software, evolving Basecamp, and "unicorns"
2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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talking about a blog post complaining about Rails
2015 · developingstory.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working for about 8 months on http://www.Learneroo.com, a site to teach programming and more through challenges. I created the site and all the content on it, and I'm looking for some feedback. Thanks!
2013 · its alternatives →
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I needed to get out of localhost:3000 land and ship a (somewhat functional) web app. Anyways, I built Current Ride as a place to put your bucket list items out in the open. The goal is really to inspire the community to do more things! Building the app helped me understand Rails a lot better and allowed me to hack-break-fix bugs/features more effectively :) Enjoy! http://www.currentride.com
2012 · currentride.com · its alternatives →
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Two years ago, I started building this site that allows people to document their learning and progress in real time. The idea is: as you learn new things, you document your progress piece by piece, creating a collection of failures, breakthroughs, and knowledge. Along the way, your friends can cheer you on, and the community can give you tips and feedback. Over time, we'll create a public collection on how different problems were solved. With each progress, the site prompts you to reflect on questions like, "If you could go back in time, what do you wish you had known?" This was my first web…
2024 · opus.cafe · its alternatives →
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What I built: Bonjournal, a travel journal app - iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bonjournal/id719266933) - web app (https://bonjourn.al) What and how I learned (in order of importance): * Ruby on Rails * - Michael Hartl's Ruby On Rails Tutorial - Railscast - Code School - Ruby Toolbox * Objective-C * - Nerd Ranch iOS Programming - NSScreencast - Code School - WWDC Videos (for performance improvements) - CocoaPods Rank (https://gist.github.com/luvtechno/8842522) And of course, a lot of Stack Overflow. I didn't think it would…
2014 · its alternatives →
- 12MF
2013 · rewardbox.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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Launch of podcasts, API-first, React.js and Heroku
2015 · 5by5.tv · its alternatives →
- 14MF
I'm getting my feet wet in programming again and wanted to learn Rails. So I followed railstutorial.org (you'll recognize the similarity if you've gone through it yourself) and changed a few fields around and created LinkRawr, a simple site to find and share links. It's here: http://linkrawr.heroku.com It works like Twitter, you follow others' links and people follow your links. You can follow me here: http://linkrawr.heroku.com/Justin I created this over the past couple of days and I'm a relative newbie when it comes to programming, so it's far from a polished project, but I thought I'd…
2011 · linkrawr.heroku.com · its alternatives →
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Sam Lambert from GitHub shares how he chooses systems
2015 · 5by5.tv · its alternatives →
- 16FP
A little background. For the last 1.5 years I lost what could be considered an embarrassing amount of money hiring other people to work on a project that I thought had potential, I got some important people involved, had some great coders, but couldn't launch. The failure was depressing, rejection by YC didn't help.. I had to take a job, I didn't enjoy and I had a girlfriend who stood by me despite going into debt. But bouncing back over the last 45 days I've taught myself Rails some Jquery, and Javascript and built this www.hangout.io. It's empowering to build something myself because I'm…
2011 · its alternatives →
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Fixed mindset vs. growth mindset and how to fight resistance
2016 · dain.io · its alternatives →
- 18DE
A software engineer and designer. This is my blog where I'll post bits & bobs about software & other hobbies.
2014 · adamcooke.io · its alternatives →
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1 month in, and launching The Side Project Accelerator
2016 · hackingui.com · its alternatives →
- 20MF
I quit my job a month ago and have been heads down working on my startup. It's my first time working with Ruby or web development at all. I launched on the 7th - http://www.onefatpig.com Now I'm done with the easy part (code) and working on the substantially harder part (getting users). Any advice?
2011 · onefatpig.com · its alternatives →
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How to help more people discover software development
2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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Learn to build Rails web applications from design to code
2016 · mackenziechild.me · its alternatives →
- 23MF
Please have a look at www.socialeaks.com and tell me what you think. This is my first adventure in coding (my background is not CS). I started learning rails about a month ago via railstutorial.org. When I finished that, I felt the best way to continue learning would be to just build an app from scratch. I came up with this concept while observing how crazy the world had gone over WikiLeaks. I thought this was a funny idea. I also thought it would be fun to build! So, here I am. I built this in rails 3 and it is currently living on Heroku. It took me about two weeks to code, doing just about…
2011 · its alternatives →
- 24MF
2016 · westoq.com · its alternatives →
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