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

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

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• 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 McGavren

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.