[kahfei]

Switching career and get a programming job, would love it to be something in Ruby on Rails. Be it permanent, remote, freelance, part time, whatever.

I tried different approaches this year, so far nothing come out of it. One gig was discontinued as the owner decided to switch to a local developer. The other project took half a year now and still no further progress from the owner. Just attended an interview which didn't work out.

As someone already mentioned, have fun with my son. Am teaching him Scratch at the moment, hopefully can complete a simple game by end of November :-)

[Nathandim]

Nice to find someone who's sharing goals with me. Though I have to admit I'm not exactly new in programming, my goal for this month is to learn programming concepts (algorithms etc.) in order to prepare myself for the switch to RoR.

I must clarify that I'm beginning with Python mostly because I'm having trouble finding good programming lessons that use Ruby.

This is a comment from a fellow HN user that I use for reference in material https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709336

[kahfei]

Hi Nathan, I think there are quite a few good tutorials for Ruby and Ruby on Rails too, perhaps you already know some of them like

Ruby

http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram

http://rubymonk.com

http://rubykoans.com

http://rubybits2.codeschool.com/levels/1

Ruby on Rails,

http://railscasts.com

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

https://class.coursera.org/saas/lecture/preview/index #coursera saas course with ruby on rails as medium

Challenges or puzzle

https://www.hackerrank.com