Finished CodeAcademy, now what?

7 points by roseleur 13 years ago | 7 comments

Hey guys,

I'm from another background than most of you. I had an (online) marketing agency, did some webdesign and most of my experience lays in sales.

Next to my job I'm following courses on data science (big data), project management and organizational analysis. However, development and programming keeps interesting me. (As a kid I liked building websites, still do!)

I've finished the CodeAcademy Ruby tutorials, watched some videos and read a lot. Now I feel I got the basics and want your input for intermediate level courses/tutorials.

Got any tips to take my knowledge to the next level?

If you're a tech person that could use some sales/marketing advice, feel free to let me know!

hello_newman 13 years ago |

I would say it depends what you want to do. Do you want to keep learning to get a job at a start up?

Do you want to build something and start a start up with a couple friends?

Do you want to freelance?

If your not sure but love programming, I would say maybe apply to a place to learn some more. Check out:

Appacademy.io Devbootcamp.com Catalystclass.com

I'll be at Dev bootcamp in March!

If you want to keep learning ruby I have a good list of prep work geared towards learning ruby that I could email you. It really helped me.

roseleur 13 years ago | |

I'm open for new job opportunities in the data science/business analist field. So basically I'm not looking for a full-time developer job. I do have some project running, so I can apply my newly obtained Ruby skills.

Unfortunately I'm not in the position to take a bootcamp, since I have a fulltime job. Thus can't get more time off than 2-3 weeks in a row.

I'd love to see your list of prep work, please send it to me. My email is in my profile.

tjarmain 13 years ago | |

Bitmaker Labs is another option, we've had 60+ applicants from 10 countries apply to our first cohort in Toronto: http://bitmakerlabs.com/

bw00d 13 years ago | |

hello_newman- I would love to get a list of that ruby prep work as well. Thanks bwoodreid@gmail.com

shnita 13 years ago |

If you want to have a look at some front-end data visualisation software, It might be worth looking at Tableau as a number of the consulting firms have pushed all their chips in on this. (http://www.tableausoftware.com/)

Id be interested to know what data science/analysis courses you've done up until now to see which direction you are heading.

thisisdallas 13 years ago |

In my opinion, the greatest thing to learn at the start is focus. There are a thousand frameworks/languages to learn and if you are a naturally curious person it's going to be hard to focus in on only a few technologies. With that said, does frontend or backend development interest you more? You mentioned you went through the Ruby course so I would assume you prefer backend?

roseleur 13 years ago | |

I fancy Ruby because of it's simple syntax and that in some ways it looks like PHP. I have experience with HTML, CSS and can read PHP. Also, since I know how to build static stuff - I want to learn the backend of things.