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Code School Review: Quality Courses Outweigh Cost

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Code School Review: Quality Courses Outweigh Cost

About Code School

Code School is an “online learning destination for existing and aspiring developers” based in Orlando, FL, and owned by parent company and fellow online-learning website, Pluralsight. Code School uses theme-based story lines and game mechanics within each course to effectively engage users as they learn programming. They offer quite a few free courses and projects so you can test drive their platform before subscribing to a monthly plan (which is actually a great price for how impressive their course quality is). We did a full Coding School review by going through their Python courses, keep reading to see our findings!
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Best Keyboard for Programming (Feb 2018)

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Best Keyboard for Programming (Feb 2018)

A computer programmers most important tool (besides our glorious minds, of course) is the keyboard. A keyboard is vessel in which you turn the solutions to problems into code, and thus it’s vitally important that every developer has a keyboard they feel awesome with.

But a keyboard is just a keyboard, right? No way! Keyboards come in a wide array of different styles, layouts, and build quality. That crappy Dell keyboard that came with your workstation is hurting you more than you know.

We’ve rounded up our favorite keyboards for computer programmers which you can see in the table below. The keyboards are in no particular order as each keyboard could be perfect for you depending on your needs.

Keyboard
Price
Get It
Das Keyboard 4 Pro$$$
Rosewill Mechanical Keyboard$
Vortex Poker III$$
CoolerMaster MasterKeys Pro S$$

Now we can dive into each keyboard and what makes it great, then afterwards if you want to learn more of the intricacies of these mechanical keyboards you can keep on reading.

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Best Books for Learning Ruby on Rails

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Best Books for Learning Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is a very popular and relatively young web framework that allows developers to spin up web apps extremely quickly. As a result, it’s become extremely popular with startups and the market for Rails developers has exploded over the last several years.

If you found your way here, you likely already know a bit about Rails and why you want to learn it. Before we go any further though, it’s worth quickly mentioning the difference between Ruby and Ruby on Rails for those unaware.

Ruby is a programming language first released in the mid-90’s that most people find to be extremely easy to learn and fun to code with. Ruby on Rails (sometimes just called Rails) is a web framework that is built upon Ruby that adds a lot of functionality for building a web app. It’s important to keep in mind these are two separate things.

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