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Hi there!
You've just finished some of the most intensive and hardest weeks of your life. But you've made it!
Congratulations, you are now full-stack developers able to build great web projects from scratch.
But Le Wagon is just the beginning of a long journey. Being a developer is an incredibly rewarding
position because you get to learn new things every day. But it is also a challenging role. With this
repository, I want to share with you some tips and resources to keep on improving your skills as
efficiently as possible.
During the bootcamp, you may have seen teachers solving problems you had been struggling on for
dozens of minutes just by reading your error message. It takes some practice but learning how to find
your error messages and how to read them will solve 90% of your problems. Sometimes it will give
you directly an answer, most of the time it will narrow the scope of the problem. Good developers are
(almost) always happy when they see an error message because they know it will help them solve their
bug.
When the error message does not directly give you an answer, learn how to debug
with binding.pry (or debugger for Javascript). Every time I see a bug I don't quite understand, the first
thing I do is put a binding.pry in my code to see what is going on and how do my variables look like at
this specific moment. With good binding.pry skills, you will rock in the developer world.
P.S: Aaron Patterson, one of the most famous Ruby developer, is a "puts debugger". It is another way to
deal with errors. Enjoy this article to learn more.
Learn to Google a problem
When you are facing a problem you really don't know, get used to Google it. 99.9% of the times, you
will find somebody who had a pretty similar problem on StackOverflow. Google skills are the most
important ones for a developer.
Other places you can find some help are: Reddit and also directly on Github, in the issues section.
There, you can ask your question to people working with the same tool as you. Sometimes you also get
a reply directly from the creator of the project.
I'm talking about these two because they are not as much referenced as StackOverflow but are
sometimes more qualitative/recent !
After Le Wagon, a lot of things look like magic because you don't have time to learn the core concepts.
I found it super valuable to get back to the roots and learn more about topics not directly related to a
language to get this right! If I was doing Le Wagon today, I would read the resources below directly
after it.
1.Learn the most valuable Computer Science concepts in 1 afternoon with Computer Science
Distilled. Best book ever!
2.Improve your Git level by reading Ry's Git Tutorial, it is free and amazing!
To go further
Because of course!
To go further
1.Subscribe to Go Rails
Javascript is primordial but you don't know it well after Le Wagon. Take some time to improve your
skills.
1.Feel the need to practice ? Do the free JavasScript30 course by Wes Bos.
To go further
1.Read the You don't know JS books (available for free on Github).
1.It is not too late to learn Computer Science. It will be a lot of work but you can follow
the Teach Yourself CS program
2.Do the Recurse Center, it seems to be life changing.
1.Andrew NG Machine Learning and Deep Learning Specialization courses are best in class
1.Learn a functional language. Elixir and Phoenix (the most popular framework for Elixir) are
great choices for Rubyist as Elixir was written by a former Rails core contributor.
2.I heard every good developer should be familiar with at least one compiled language. Go is
still safe pick but Crystal could be an interesting choice for Rubyist.
1.Improve your CSS skills: structure it properly your vanilla CSS with BEM.
2.Learn a trendy JS library (React or Vue.js for example) in egghead. Get a paid subscription, it
is worthy.
3.Then, if you're conviced and want to create native mobile apps for Android & iPhone, learn
React Native (there are good courses in egghead too)
Learn DevOps
2.Awesome Ruby
6.A new way to setup your front in Rails, by a former Le Wagon student
7.Do you want more? Check this [resource] by a former student with a ton of miscellaneous
cools links !
Contributing
If you are a teacher, TA or experienced alumni of Le Wagon, do not hesitate to fork this repository and
send me a pull request to improve this learning path. I am sure it could be much better. ;)