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0 pointsbonesinger13y ago0 comments

I'm in the same boat as you, but the above advice is good advice. I'm looking for any job so that I can pay my bills while I take online classes and complete Ruby on Rails tutorial.

I also have 2-3 ideas that I want to develop that I can showcase. These projects are just vehicles to showcase my technical expertise. Then I'll apply for positions and use my portfolio I have made to showcase experience.

This is actively working towards your goal. If you can't find a job in the profession you want, you have to generate the opportunities yourself!

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brewerhimself13y ago· 2 in thread

I was thinking about working on a Reddit clone while making some open source contributions. How does that sound?

bonesingerOP13y ago

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.

brewerhimself13y ago

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.

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