Hey guys,<p>I'm from another background than most of you. I had an (online) marketing agency, did some webdesign and most of my experience lays in sales.<p>Next to my job I'm following courses on data science (big data), project management and organizational analysis. However, development and programming keeps interesting me. (As a kid I liked building websites, still do!)<p>I've finished the CodeAcademy Ruby tutorials, watched some videos and read a lot. Now I feel I got the basics and want your input for intermediate level courses/tutorials.<p>Got any tips to take my knowledge to the next level?<p>If you're a tech person that could use some sales/marketing advice, feel free to let me know!
I would say it depends what you want to do. Do you want to keep learning to get a job at a start up?<p>Do you want to build something and start a start up with a couple friends?<p>Do you want to freelance?<p>If your not sure but love programming, I would say maybe apply to a place to learn some more. Check out:<p>Appacademy.io
Devbootcamp.com
Catalystclass.com<p>I'll be at Dev bootcamp in March!<p>If you want to keep learning ruby I have a good list of prep work geared towards learning ruby that I could email you. It really helped me.
If you want to have a look at some front-end data visualisation software, It might be worth looking at Tableau as a number of the consulting firms have pushed all their chips in on this. (<a href="http://www.tableausoftware.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tableausoftware.com/</a>)<p>Id be interested to know what data science/analysis courses you've done up until now to see which direction you are heading.
In my opinion, the greatest thing to learn at the start is focus. There are a thousand frameworks/languages to learn and if you are a naturally curious person it's going to be hard to focus in on only a few technologies. With that said, does frontend or backend development interest you more? You mentioned you went through the Ruby course so I would assume you prefer backend?