[civild]

I just had a look at Freelancify and registered, and I'm amazed that you did it all in 12 weeks learning Ruby from scratch. Kudos!

Based on your experience, how do you think learning materials/tutorials could be improved for people learning from scratch?

[ams6110]

I had a look at it too, and from a design standpoint it looks very nice. I am not sure about your choices for project budget. For example, this description was posted for bids:

Need Drupal developer to: - do PSD/HTML to Drupal theme for one new section on the existing site. - Do additional module programming. - fix issues/error on the site - Make the entire site work

With a stated budget of $100--$300. I mean come on, that's ridiculously naive on the part of the person who posted. If you could give bid-seekers some guidelines on what to reasonably expect, e.g. some examples of what a budget of $100-$300 might buy, it would help people get qualified bids.

[james-fend]

Thank you! Without getting too much into technics in the beginning, and getting the person to get something up to feel accomplished, gain confidence.

I think that's what gets most people. That initial learning curve takes a lot reassurance that they can do it; but if they hit a wall and it takes more than 7-8 hours to get around it, a lot just quit all together.

By far, the most thorough and best written resource I used was the Rails Tutorial from Michael Hartl.