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Instructor at RailsTutors here. We just launched our next class, and I should point out that ours is live instruction and a month-long class-based curriculum. It's a HUGE difference from watching online videos. I don't want to market too much in this thread, but if you're interested just check out our curriculum and see what our previous students are saying: railstutors.com
I took the Rails Tutors class in February. I can say that Chris and Kevin have structured the course very well. I am also currently around 70% through this Pragmatic Programmers course... another great investment. I'm making a career switch from advertising sales and the education I am receiving from the vast resources online is amazing. I would say for any newbie, learn the Ruby basics from Pragmatic Programmers first.
Yes, Chris and Kevin did the course very well, I even met Chris once. Couldn't follow up after the course, but I enjoyed the course thoroughly. It was very affordable (was lucky to get into the first batch).
Thanks guys! We've improved the course a lot based on all the students' feedback. Very glad you enjoyed it, and drop me a line when you ship your project. We'd like to start featuring an "alumni showcase" of projects our students have built.
Speaking of Ruby Reloaded, when is the next class? I'm thinking you're not going to make April at this point. :) Out of all of them, I think yours would be considered the only advanced one right?
My work on O'Reilly Fluent has severely hit my time for working on it and I like to 'rebuild' the course most times I run it. I won't make an announcement until I'm 100% happy for it to go ahead as I don't want to disappoint anyone but it should be "very soon"! :-)
Mine is probably the one most focused on intermediate developers rather than beginners per se. It's for people who already know and work with Ruby but who want to flesh out their understanding of the Ruby object model, metaprogramming, project structure, library building, and so forth.
I'm currently in the market for a class of this nature. If the bloc offering is similar to RailsTutors, why does it cost more than 6.5x as much ($3,000 vs. $450)?
Based on the class descriptions, it looks like bloc.io lasts approximately twice as long (8 weeks vs. ~4). However, the first three weeks will be spent covering Michael Hartl's rails tutorial.
I don't mean to be flip, but I am having a hard time determining what the value proposition is here. Hartl's tutorial, after all, is more than clear enough to work through on an independent basis. Shouldn't it be a course pre-requisite, and not part of the core material - especially at these rates?
Hi Doktrin, I'm also one of the guys tutoring at Bloc.
We don't make any assumptions about your skill level. We'll take any motivated person, and come up with a plan that will challenge them. Whether or not that includes Hartl tutorial is actually up to the individual mentor teaching the cohort.
We put a ton of time into each cohort. It is basically our full time job to make sure each and every person gets as much as possible out of the course. We typically have somewhere like 15+ of office hours a week. For most of the course, we basically coach you as you build real projects of your choosing.
Thanks for elaborating on your program, Hani. 15 weekly office hours is a great resource. I'm also glad to hear that your program can be tailored to the needs of the students. I'll doubtlessly have some more granular follow up questions, but will address them over email (if you prefer).
Currently has free courses with new, paid content coming shortly. $5 per month, all you can eat for access to the paid courses (free courses remain free). Course creators get royalties (and keep copyright, of course).