Comment on Ask HN: How can I be competitive?parentComments−bonesinger14yGo for it man! the RoR Tutorial builds a twitter clone. The process of making the clone is the learning period.Once I'm done with going through RoR, I want to develop my own blog from scratch.I'm also taking some Udacity classes and Coursera as well.Lastly, get involved, do some volunteer work (e.g. design a site for a nonprofit, church, whatever..)Those kids from Standford started programming at a young age, but they built up a nice portfolio, you should do the same.−brewerhimselfOP14yShoot me an email at james@brewerhimself.com sometime; I'd be interested to hear what you think about Udacity. I'm taking the Introduction to Statistics class right now myself.
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Go for it man! the RoR Tutorial builds a twitter clone. The process of making the clone is the learning period.
Once I'm done with going through RoR, I want to develop my own blog from scratch.
I'm also taking some Udacity classes and Coursera as well.
Lastly, get involved, do some volunteer work (e.g. design a site for a nonprofit, church, whatever..)
Those kids from Standford started programming at a young age, but they built up a nice portfolio, you should do the same.
Shoot me an email at james@brewerhimself.com sometime; I'd be interested to hear what you think about Udacity. I'm taking the Introduction to Statistics class right now myself.