Jay McGavren's guest appearances

Jay McGavren

CodeNewbie

The Ruby on Rails Podcast

Scott Hanselman

Penelope Phippen

Dave Thomas

Marty Haught

Colleen Schnettler

Molly Struve

Ali Spittel

Greg Baugues

Chad Fowler

Kanika Tolver

Kristy Tillman

Chris Coyier

Laura Elizabeth

Lara Hogan

Mina Markham

OwlTail

In this episode, we talk Ruby with Jay McGavren, author of Head First Ruby and Head First Go, and web developer at Kajabi. Jay talks about the pros and cons of using Ruby, what coding in Ruby looks like, and if it’s a good language for beginners to first learn. Show Links AWS Insiders  (sponsor)  Ruby Head First Ruby Head First Go Kajabi Commodore BASIC Scratch Visual Basic Perl Programming Perl Unix Scripting language Programming Ruby Yukihiro Matsumoto Ruby on Rails Dave Thomas Java Go Stack Overflow New Relic Unit Testing Head First Java Head First Design Patterns O'Reilly Media Keynote Head First HTML and CSS Sinatra MINASWAN The Rails Way  Jay McGavrenJay is the author of the books Head First Ruby and Head First Go. He has over 15 years of software development experience, including 4 years of teaching development online.

<p>In this episode, we talk Ruby with Jay McGavren, author of Head First Ruby and Head First Go, and web developer at Kajabi. Jay talks about the pros and cons of using Ruby, what coding in Ruby looks like, and if it’s a good language for beginners to first learn.<br><br></p> <h4>Show Links</h4> <ul><li><a href="https://link.chtbl.com/awsinsiders?sid=podcast.codenewbie" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AWS Insiders </a> (sponsor) </li> <li><a href="https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ruby</a></li> <li><a href="https://headfirstruby.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Head First Ruby</a></li> <li><a href="https://headfirstgo.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Head First Go</a></li> <li><a href="https://kajabi.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kajabi</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_BASIC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Commodore BASIC</a></li> <li><a href="https://scratch.mit.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scratch</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Visual Basic</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.perl.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Perl</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-perl-4th/9781449321451/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Programming Perl</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unix</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_language#:~:text=The%20term%20%22scripting%20language%22%20is,such%20as%20the%20text%2Dprocessing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scripting language</a></li> <li><a href="https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby-2nd-edition/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Programming Ruby</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yukihiro Matsumoto</a></li> <li><a href="https://rubyonrails.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ruby on Rails</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thomas_(programmer)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dave Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.java.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Java</a></li> <li><a href="https://golang.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Go</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stack Overflow</a></li> <li><a href="https://newrelic.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Relic</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a5LocoW6QM2ocscZbeXl9FgVc6-lM_evgwmD1NzmlJw/edit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unit Testing</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-java/0596009208/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Head First Java</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-design/0596007124/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Head First Design Patterns</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">O'Reilly Media</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.apple.com/keynote/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Keynote</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-html/9781449324469/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Head First HTML and CSS</a></li> <li><a href="http://sinatrarb.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sinatra</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MINASWAN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MINASWAN</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-rails-way/9780321445612/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Rails Way</a></li> </ul><h4> Jay McGavren</h4><p>Jay is the author of the books Head First Ruby and Head First Go. He has over 15 years of software development experience, including 4 years of teaching development online.</p>

S13:E5 - Why you should consider learning Ruby ( Jay McGavren)

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<p>Fewer frogs, more programming, and an interview with Jay McGavren, author of "Head First Ruby". The waiting is the hardest part.</p> <p><a href="http://devbootcamp.com/ruby" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">devbootcamp.com/ruby</a>: Thinking about becoming a software developer? Check out Dev Bootcamp, the original, short-term, immersive software development program that transforms those new to coding into job-ready, full-stack web developers.</p> <p><a href="http://braintreepayments.com/railspodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Braintree</a>: An easy way to accept multiple payment types with one integration. Quick, knowledgeable developer support if you have any questions. Start accepting Apple Pay, PayPal, Bitcoin, Venmo, cards, and whatever’s next. With the Braintree v dot zero SDK — one small snippet of code, and you’re all set up in less than 10 minutes. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to <a href="http://braintreepayments.com/railspodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">braintreepayments.com/railspodcast</a>.</p>

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