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It looks like it's a Rails course, and any mention of "every programming language in the world" is an insignificant portion of the curriculum. I'm also not seeing lots of "Buzzword filled nonsense", but just some explanations of various Rails architectures. Sure, some of those might be popular, but this looks like a cohesive course to me.



Exactly. Even though I haven't gone beyond chapter 1 in the book - but only in chapter 3 they try to teach you Ruby assuming you know Java. HTML and CSS are just the basic stuff that you'll need anyway - but there is a focus on the tools like Cucumbur, rspec etc. that's needed for agile development. Surely its not view of "every programming language in the world" course ...




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