My story of learning to code to build a side project.

Thank you for sharing! I always like to read this kind of stories. For me, I started coding in a silly way. First wave of motivation was when I tried to impress my current girlfriend, her sister needed a website and I said I can code it for her. Right after saying that I jumped into YouTube and searched for "How to create a website". Then somehow I forget about coding when I got my internship at one company, which required me to visit hospitals and some other boring stuff. I didnt want to do it, but it was a requirement internship at university. My roommate was a great programmer so I requested a transfer to software department counting on my friend and knowing only a little bit of HTML/CSS. Suddenly, even a single week didn't pass and my friend had to leave, so I was kinda forced to learn ASP.NET and other stuff. After that terrible time of continues googling, stackoverflow, youtubing I became a programmer for a living :)

Great story. Can you add some detail on how much time you've dedicated to learning on a daily/weekly basis and how it fits into your family and work life?

Great story. Great blog post too. And it looks like a great tool. You just earned another potential user :)<p>Good luck and keep up the great work!

Inspiring! I am also trying to learn Ruby on Rails. Like you, I also have an itch for startup. Learning Ruby on Rails is on my top list for 2012!

Great insight. I love the "outsiders" view on programming you take. Finding out that the learning curve isn't that great is encouraging.

Very compelling story, I appreciate the amount of detail you went into to explain your adventure.

Thanks for sharing<p>How much time have you spent doing tutorials / projects vs. pair programming? 50/50?

Did you know HTML/CSS/Javascript before, or was all that new too?