“This certification requires the completion of coursework and proficient comprehension of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Agile, GIT, RSPEC, TDD, Guard, MVC, and associated Rails technology.”
We stand on the shoulders of our teachers for a time. They map out for us the structures of our technology. They get us to understand how the thing works, why the thing works. They get us to appreciate the giants on whose shoulders they stand who wrote the thing. They transmit and cause effects in us. And we walk away enriched, carrying forward increased potentials and futures full of promise.
The Ruby coding tools, the Agile design philosophy, the GIT software version control, the RSPEC test functions, the Test Driven Development process, the Guard environment, the Model/View/Controller separation of machine functions, and the Rails conventions oriented to internet communications through browsers, … as we incorporated these tools into our own technological framework, we got to not only know the structure of the internet, but also to know how to write and direct the machines that make substantive internet communications happen.
We’ve moved beyond mere internet consumers to become internet producers. Though some of us had previously written blogs and made basic html content available, the tools we now command have amped up our ability to generate, use, transform, and produce internet content on a contemporary professional and commercial level.
Considering the major role that on-line content now plays in modern life, a fluency in that medium situates us to help shape the future of mankind. I didn’t really see that coming in any concrete way at the beginning of this course, but what an amazing place to end up.