Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Resources for Future Reference

Find Work Online
Dice.com Post resume with List of jobs/projects/ Sample Apps
Stack Overflow Careers
UpWork
CareerBuilder

How to get a Junior Dev Job
Jay Lee
Reddit
Joshua Kemp
Reddit AMA
Nico Schuele
Ycombinator
LearnWithJeff
Quora
Code Mentor


Learning Resources
45 OF THE BEST PLACES TO LEARN TO CODE FOR FREE
Reddit Rails
Reddit Ruby
RailsGirls Guides
Ruby Learning on Trello

Paid
https://pragmaticstudio.com/ruby
Learn to Program
Pickaxe

Javascript
Learning Advanced Javascript
http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/
http://eloquentjavascript.net/
https://www.javascript.com/resources


Start. Stop. Start Again

So I am kind of hot and cold with this online learning thing.

I've decided to get quite serious about it now.

I want a junior dev job paying a six figure salary. I want to do freelance ruby on Rails work.

New Plan of action

Learn Rails
CoderManual
RailsTutorial.org
Tutorials.jumstartlabs.com
Project Odin
LearnHowToProgram

Learn Ruby
RubyMonk
Ruby How to Program

Learn Javascript
FreeCodeCamp
Eloquent Javascript

Learn JQuery
Try Jquery
Codeacademy

Learn Angular
Codeschool

Take on Projects at CodeCloud and FreeCodeCamp.
Contribute to fixing bugs on FreeCodeCamp. Contribute to fixing bugs on other open source projects.
Start bidding for freelance jobs. Put resume on Dice.com to get recruiters looking for jobs. Update LinkedIn. Get to work .

Follow this advice:
http://www.quora.com/First-Jobs-2/How-can-a-self-educated-programmer-lacking-professional-experience-market-themselves-as-a-qualified-applicant-seeking-their-first-full-time-job-opportunity

Follow Josh Kemps plan.