Since I’ve been learning on my own, I’ve found that there are many resources online to help me chart a syllabus and figure out what skills I would specifically need. These are some of the links I bookmarked to figure out what I have to start learning next or what I need to work on more.
Odin Project
This was one of the first free resources I found online about web development. The format for this was similar to Treehouse’s tracks except that this one is written instead of as video tutorials.
Thoughtbot Guides
This covered a lot of detail about the tools thoughtbot uses. I’m not familiar with all of them but I found that the ones I do know are covered very well here. It’s not an introduction to them but, if you just started working with it, the guides offer general guidelines to follow until their purposes are better understood.
Sitepoint Ruby
Sitepoint has a lot of introductory material or tutorials on how to use libraries or frameworks. There’s a great variety in what they’ve written about and they publish frequently enough that there are a lot of material to go through that is very up to date.
Jumpstart Lab Tutorials
This site has a lot of projects a person could go through and create. I found their github repository a while back and saw a lot of sample apps that could be used to learn about a specific functionality.
Turing Standards
This site has a lot of questions a Ruby on Rails developer could be reasonable asked. I go through them because I feel like they’re a very good example of interview questions.
Practicing Ruby
These articles are very in-depth and valuable to learning more than just the basics of different Ruby categories. In particular, my favorite was the article about building the Enumerable module from scratch. I consider that module as one of the most important in Ruby’s standard library since it’s used a lot by Ruby programmers.
Rails Diff
Since a lot of Rails tutorials can include previous versions of Rails, I use this a lot to make sure the ones I’m following could be easily migrated to a more current version.
Ruby Regex
This is an interactive app to check Ruby regular expressions and their results. I use this a lot to make sure the regular expressions I’m using are correct. When I first started learning about regex, I used this website to practice different characters and shortcuts.
Awesome Ruby
This is a collection of libraries and tools that are written in Ruby. Looking at all of this was overwhelming at first but it’s a really great way to see what’s out there and what you could use. The first thing I looked at from here was the coding style guides which include resources for Ruby, Rails, and Rspec.
Big O
This was a good introduction on data structures and algorithms in Computer Science. I don’t use the specific things in here very much but having a working understanding of these concepts are helpful to decide which methods to use. Also, I’ve been told this is a common interview question that could stump entry level programmers especially self taught ones.
Commands I’ve learned
find / -type d -name 'folder_name'