Dan Pereda - Yeah! You found me. » Programming http://danpereda.com A Blog of Business, How-to, Rants, Reviews, and What I like to do. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:04:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Burning the midnight oil to learn to program Ruby on Rails and Ubuntu 10.04 http://danpereda.com/2010/05/burning-the-midnight-oil-to-learn-to-program-ruby-on-rails-and-ubuntu-10-04/ http://danpereda.com/2010/05/burning-the-midnight-oil-to-learn-to-program-ruby-on-rails-and-ubuntu-10-04/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 05:39:25 +0000 Danpereda http://danpereda.com/?p=320 My current busy schedule doesn’t give me much free time to learn new things, but I burning the midnight oil to learn Ruby on Rails. I don’t like to make things easy on myself either. I forced myself to use Ubuntu (10.04).

I spent the last few nights not doing much in the way of learning ruby and rails. I was really focused on getting my Ubuntu 10.04 development environment up and running. i also took a detour to learn about GIT and github.

GIT and Gihub are not hard, but there is not that many resources that teach you what GIT is and how it work from the ground up. Most if the information out there just assume you know what it is and WHY you need to use it.

I did get rails and everything working from the Command line, but I also install Radrails and there was some glitches getting it to work. I got thru a few chapters of the book and have an outline of the DEMO shopping cart system working. Hopefully now I can pick up the pace and start working on my own ideas soon.

]]> http://danpereda.com/2010/05/burning-the-midnight-oil-to-learn-to-program-ruby-on-rails-and-ubuntu-10-04/feed/ 2 Total Beginner- Android Programming. Part 3 http://danpereda.com/2009/07/total-beginner-android-programming-part-3/ http://danpereda.com/2009/07/total-beginner-android-programming-part-3/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:00:29 +0000 Danpereda http://danpereda.com/?p=230 So I have been diving thru all the java books and online videos I can find. The one thing I seem to find it that alot of books focus on getting you to start writing code and alot of the code you just don’t understand fully (Well at least I didn’t). They really don’t explain what and how things are working. I started looking more at Java text books and that really spent too much time on theory and high level coding ideas. I watched some great Videos on line, but they started with test driven development, but I really needed the basics in simple to understand english.

What I needed is a ground up java class in a book. What I stumbled upon was Head First Java, 2nd Edition. After just a few days I am about half way thru this book. It is the first programming book that you can actually read. You don’t have to read it next to a computer.

The book teaches you the basics and the meaning behind them, it challenges you with different learning styles. The code that is in the book is easy to read and are fun relevant things you might want to try. No boring hello world, how about creating a battleship game? I will be working on Android code soon at this rate.

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