More career advice for Elok

[Hauldren Collider]

Also I would trust any advice pchang gives you over any advice I give you.

[onodera]

The latest fad isn't Rails, it's Node.js and JavaScript in general.

[regexcellent]

If you had to pick one, would you pick Ruby over Rails?

Rails is Ruby. It's just a framework for Ruby. What you're asking I guess is why you would use Ruby without Rails. There are many answers for that, but let's start with the fact that Rails has lots of absurd design choices that are supposed to make it intuitive and convenient but actually lead to poorly defined behavior. For example, pluralization has semantics, but Rails sometimes screws up the fairly complicated English pluralization rules.

[al hail bobo]

The latest fad isn't Rails, it's Node.js and JavaScript in general.

I can attest to this.
I HIGHLY suggest PHP, I love it over java/C/python

Also since you are in the area, check out unallocatedspace.org There was recently a post on the message list about a CCNA course and they do a webdev course on thurs nights that I go to. FYI its a hackerspace, so everything is 100% free (Donations encouraged but not pressured). I can't attest to the the courses I don't attend, but the webdev night is taught by a very accomplished developer with the likes of bestbuy.com and whitehouse.gov under his belt.

[pchang]

Specific language is not that important. It's all about learning the process.

[Felch]

unallocatedspace.org looks awesome. They have lock pickers there the first three Wednesday nights of each month? Baller!

[Elok]

Severna Park might be a bit too far for a regular commute. Maybe not after the school year ends, though (I'm a substitute teacher). We'll see how much I know by then. I'm a quarter of the way through codecademy's HTML/CSS material right now. Might do PHP next just because it builds on/cements the HTML and CSS. Incidentally, how the heck does that site stay up? Do they have a business model yet? I didn't see a Donate button . . .

Also, Felch is right, UAS seems awesome.

[Hauldren Collider]

Specific language is not that important. It's all about learning the process.

QFT ^^^

The reason I suggest Python is that I believe the process of learning it will be more instructive than the process of learning PHP. Ultimately, once you've learned a few programming languages, it shouldn't usually take more than a day or two to acclimate to a new one. Exceptions exist, such as trying to learn an ML derivative when you've only used imperative languages before.

[Lorizael]

This thread proves I have IRL friends.

[Sava]

I still suspect you are a DL.

[al hail bobo]

This thread proves I have IRL friends.

Lorizael, we are still waiting for you to prove you have IRL friends. You should get one of them to post on this forum.