{"id":7939,"date":"2015-10-29T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T10:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webcodegeeks.com\/?p=7939"},"modified":"2015-10-24T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T13:52:34","slug":"youre-not-learning-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webcodegeeks.com\/web-development\/youre-not-learning-slowly\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re not learning too slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning a new framework or language always feels slow and sluggish at first. I\u2019m working on learning<\/a> Ruby on Rails right know after a year or two of not learning a new framework and I had also forgotten the feeling. At first, I stumbled at every step on the way and nothing was familiar even if I\u2019ve been programming for the web for many years.<\/p>\n

Not to help things, Rails is a strongly opinionated framework, so a lot of things are done by convention and not by configuration or by code. It\u2019s a great productivity boost once you know the proper conventions, but it\u2019s hard to deduce all of them at once when getting started.<\/p>\n

At first, I had the impression that I was going slower than usual. For a developer with a good grasp of the web and of other frameworks, a few weeks should be enough to get up to speed in a related technology and reach a point where they\u2019ll be able to produce work at a decent pace. Not top cruising speed, but a few months down the line nobody will notice that they were new at it.\"hourglass-300x200\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve started two months ago and I\u2019m barely getting there, but the thing is, I\u2019m going at it in my spare time. I realized it was totally normal and that I was not growing soft with some simple mathematics.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve also had the impression that you were too slow and not as productive that you could be when you started learning a framework for a new project or a new job, but it\u2019s totally normal if you look at the time involved. Here is a ballpark estimate of what you can expect depending on the time you have to learn:<\/p>\n