From: Samantha Date: 2007-02-06T10:36:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Newbie Advice. On Feb 5, 8:27 pm, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Well, I've never been able to learn anything unless I had a reason to > learn it... I think you just hit that point. > > You've got to find something that interests you... based on your situation > I would suggest a "resume builder". > > Define your resume in YAML. That is, put all your past jobs, your > experience, anything that is "repeatable" into a YAML file. Then write a > script to parse those YAML files and spit out nicelly formatted ascii > text, HTML, and PDF files. I think you just hit the proverbial nail on the head. I've not looked at YAML, so now I get to learn a few things and not just obsessively focus on the fact that I don't know what to write. ;) > You'll learn a lot and it will be useful. > > Then when you're done with that, move it to the web and create your first > Rails project to do the same thing. I've actually been wanting to take a look at Rails. My mom does SEO and has been trying to get me to learn PHP, but I want to learn Ruby and RoR, not PHP. Sometimes things just spark your interest, and PHP didn't really spark mine. > I did that several years ago when I wanted to learn the Smarty template > language for PHP and it worked great. My project was small enough that I > understood it, but big enough to let me play around with somethings I > normally didn't get to play with. > That's awesome. I really appreciate the input and my first project! > But I like chocolate chip cookies! :) Me, too. Especially when they are made with dark chocolate chips. > > Good luck! Thanks, I'll keep ya'll posted! Samantha http://www.babygeek.org/