I find it hard to learn with just one medium like a classroom or a book. I need multiple sources of information to drill …
I find it hard to learn with just one medium like a classroom or a book. I need multiple sources of information to drill home a subject (I could of course just be dense). I started learning Ruby on Rails with tutorials, which are great if you want to learn a few things and do it quickly (and also to kill time while you are waiting on Amazon to deliver your Ruby book). But tutorials aren’t enough to understand the depth of the subject they aren’t enough. The next phase of my learning is focused on working through the chapters of Agile Web Development with Rails. It does a good job of presenting the use cases for Ruby on Rails, giving you a project to work on throughout the course of the book, and also explaining what tools to use in development.
I also like learning and being outside. So I’ve started a tradition of podcasts and power walks. I really like listening to: Learning Rails. The podcast is free and you can subscribe to it on iTunes. If you visit the site you can also download the screen casts. If you haven’t yet gone through book exercises I’d recommend looking at the screen casts while listening to the podcasts, it makes it easier to follow and understand what Michael and Christopher are talking about.
I’ll cover video tutorials in the next Ruby Tuesday.
