So far I'm about 10 lessons into One Month Rails, and I'm not exactly liking what I'm seeing. Basically this website is showing me how to create a pinterest type website in a few hours. The biggest problem I have is that the site is "showing" me, not "teaching me how to do so.
Mattan seems to know his stuff, but the issue is that Mattan regularly tells you to do this or that, but does not tell you what for. Regularly I am confused as to whether the code Mattan is writing in is CSS, HTML, Ruby, or PHP, or even some other code. Mattan never really teaches you what the functions or methods are, he just basically says "now do this, because it uploads this to the website."
That all being said, I'm still going to the finish the course. I'm about half way through so I might as well keep at it. I'm off to Code School next so we'll see what I learn there.
Quick note, here is my discount plan for learning Ruby on Rails. I finished Codeacademy's course for free first. Then I noticed that after googling OneMonthRails.com, I kept getting a discount code on Facebook. I took the discount code and started the first kind of lessons. Then I noticed that New Relic will give you a free month of Code School if you sign up and deploy at this address. Now that I have a free month I'm going to get started on Code School and try to finish up what I can in a month.
If you have any questions about anything let me know!
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