Christmas Time

This has been an eventful week, with my brothers surprise Christmas visit and wonderful Christmas. I have only got four hours of studying done this past week, working with 'slightly dynamic' pages with the ROR Tutorial from Michael Hartl. I had an unfortunate error with github where instead of updating the main branch with the side branch I managed to return back where I started before the Statics pages branch.  Which while a little depressing, is getting me a little more familiar with github.

Finished up to 3.2 of Michael Hartl Tutorial

I have studied 10 hours so far this starting from Sunday. Chapter 3 deals with tests and test driven development (TDD ) something I really haven't had a lot of exposure to in the past. Although in my last programming class, (Computer Programming For Engineers), the professor provided makefiles, which automated compilation and tested our programs for specific results.

Finals are done !!!!!!

I am done both my finals but I didn't get a chance to do much ROR, but now that school is over I plan to make up for that.

Code Retreat

Spent a Full day doing pair programming at the code retreat on Dec 8th, trying to make Conway's Game of Life in 45 min sessions, and then starting from scratch except the last 2 sessions where the code from session 5 was retained and everyone returned to their original partners.

Delayed post

I got a little over 4 hours studying done with Josh on Sunday, I finally realized that the videos for learn ruby on rails in a month, were for the whole month and not just the first week.  So while I don't think it would have been a terrible value if the course had been advertised as "How to create a simple app using Ruby on Rails." as Josh commented in his review it failed to deliver on its promises.

Video watching is almost fun

Today I spent 2 hours watching videos, and for another hour I'm programming c for college homework

watched just over an hour of video, from learn how to program in one month, I wish there was a way to speed up the playback.  It seems a little slow but I think this could be great for a total newbie.

Chugging along

Got another 2 hours of studing, working on chp 2 of the Michael Hart ruby on rails tutorial.  My phone and my mobile are working now. My learn how to program in a month class starts tomorrow. I am tired and excited, now it's time for fun at work.

Stuck on lesson 8

Last night we spent 3.5 hours working on the ruby4kids.com lessons. We got up to lesson  8 and after much effort we realized that there is an error in the tutorial. Unfortuatly we have not fixed the error, but I still feel that we a lot better understanding of ruby.

Group Study session 2

We spent seven hours programming today (Wednesday night and Thursday morning) in our second study group session working on the Ruby4kids.com lessons and finished up to lesson 6 as well as customize the code, by tweaking the speed of the bullets, changing the proximity sensitivity of the bullets, and the maneuverability of the plane Happy Thanksgiving.

This Sunday was my first study group session with Josh Kemp for 3 hours on the

Ruby on Rails Tutorial.

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Completed chp 1

Today I spent 3hr and 20 min working up to deploying my first app using Ruby on rails.

My Birthday

Yesterday the the 11th I spent 4 hrs, setting up twitter, blogger, and trying to install ubuntu.
Today the 12th is my birthday and I have spent 3:15 hrs successfully setting up my computer to dual boot ubuntu and win 7, and updated ubuntu. Read up to 1.24 Ruby on Rails Tutorial, and have started installing Ruby on Rails using this site. http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/05/02/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu-12-04-lts/

It is still downloading stuff, so I will check on it later.

Genesis

Today I have created a blog. woo hoo.