[ale] A Hal Fulton Blog article on CompSci degrees

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For many yrs, the ATLRug had free Ruby training about 8 months of the
year every other Saturday morning. When they switched to using an 100%
online dev environment, I stopped going and helping.

Very few Rubyist use the built-in system ruby.  That is NOT a best
practice.  You want/need to control most of the stack for your web-app
and using an old Ruby that can change under you by the action of someone
else is NOT ideal.


On 09/17/2015 02:43 PM, leam hall wrote:
> The issue I'm hitting is the same in other languages; going from a very
> small thing to figuring out how to do a very big thing. The PHP community
> has the https://phpmentoring.org/ site and it's pretty cool. When I hit
> Freenode's #ruby channel I get a lot of grief about using an old Ruby, yet
> that's what's on my servers so that's what I can use day to day. If it's
> not day to day it isn't going to sink in.
> 
> I need to see if the Ruby community can pick up the mentoring idea.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Scott M. Jones <eff at dragoncon.org> wrote:
> 
>> And the best way to learn something is (still) to take on a project and
>> force yourself to use the knowledge.
>>
>> need to learn > want to learn
>>
>> On 9/17/15 1:59 PM, leam hall wrote:
>>> I am discontent and "want to" learn deeper languages like C, Go, and
>>> Assembler. Yet my "want to" seems more a love for the idea of the thing
>>> than the thing itself. I have hundreds of dollars in study materials for
>>> them but get more done and have more fun with Ruby. I whine about Ruby's
>>> resource consumption and then use it anyway.
>>>
>>> My ego doesn't like the truths my actions proclaim.
>>