I am a recent graduate. I have been coding in Java professionally for the
past one year.
I am trying to get better at Ruby by using it on my hobby projects after
work. I want to accelerate my learning and get better at programming.
Let me know if any of you are open to mentoring. I would need 20 minutes
per month of your time.
A quick high level review of the side-project I am working on, advice on my
coding style and concrete, actionable items I can work on to become a
better programmer.
Regards,
Karthik
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Karthik Kottapalli,
Software Developer,
New York, New York.
Phone: 201 381 8762
I am trying to get better at Ruby by using it on my hobby projects after
work. I want to accelerate my learning and get better at programming.
Let me know if any of you are open to mentoring. I would need 20 minutes
per month of your time.
When you're new, it's difficult to access the quality of any would-be
mentor. A better strategy may be to start reading the source of
widely used libraries, and experiment, experiment, experiment. When
things don't make sense, come back to this list with a small code sample
and ask for help.
If a library is widely used, more often than not, it's been refined,
refactored, optimized and documented. Start small so you don't feel
overwhelmed, but don't shy away from looking under the hood of the
larger libraries.
A few for consideration...
minitest
rake
rubygems
nokogiri
rack
rails
Once you get a bit more experience, if you still think a mentor makes
sense, you're in a much better position to judge. Also, don't forget
the value of collaborating on an existing project. Fixing an open bug
and helping document are great ways to learn, add value, and begin
collaborating with more experienced devs.
Most importantly, make it personal. Find an area you're passionate about
and dive in. The rest will follow.
*I* couldn't do that in 20 minutes per month. I think 20 minutes may
be a vast underestimation of what it needs - otherwise you probably
won't get useful feedback.
If you do not want to put a larger burden on any individual you could
start using a public forum such as this or a blog to present your code
and collect feedback.
Let me know if any of you are open to mentoring. I would need 20 minutes per
month of your time.
A quick high level review of the side-project I am working on, advice on my
coding style and concrete, actionable items I can work on to become a better
programmer.
That would have an (intended) side effect of being more widely
useful to the others who might learn from questions, mistakes
and advice as well.
The private kind of public counsel is called "support".
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On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 07:58:11PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
If you do not want to put a larger burden on any individual you
could start using a public forum such as this or a blog to
present your code and collect feedback.
*A better strategy may be to start reading the source of
widely used libraries, and experiment, experiment, experiment. When
things don't make sense, come back to this list with a small code sample
and ask for help.
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I am starting with a parser. This gem seems to be simple and small enough
for me to not get intimidated.
*you could
start using a public forum such as this or a blog to present your code
*
*and collect feedback.
*
*
*
I will use this mailing list community for code reviews and feedback.
Thanks for the help.
Regards,
Karthik
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Michael Shigorin <mike@osdn.org.ua> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 07:58:11PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> If you do not want to put a larger burden on any individual you
> could start using a public forum such as this or a blog to
> present your code and collect feedback.
That would have an (intended) side effect of being more widely
useful to the others who might learn from questions, mistakes
and advice as well.
The private kind of public counsel is called "support".
