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Sean Washington

Rockwell Schrock

Does Not Compute

In episode 5, Sean and Paul discuss a very helpful article entitled 10 tips for young programmers, how to use active model serializers in rails, and how to deal with programmer frustration.

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## Things Mentioned

* [Flaticons](http://flaticons.co) - Some badass icons
* [Active Model Serializers](https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers) - ActiveModelSerializers brings convention over configuration to your JSON generation.
* [Flux & Flux Stores](https://facebook.github.io/flux/docs/overview.html#stores)
* [A cartoon guide to Flux](https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-guide-to-flux-6157355ab207)
* [Some suggestions on dealing with frustration](http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/42940)
* [Exercism.io](http://exercism.io/) - Practice your coding skills
* [Project Euler](https://projecteuler.net/) - Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve.
* [Ten tips for young programmers](http://hintjens.com/blog:101)
* [We are typists first, programmers second](http://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programmers-second/)
* Conversely, [We're thinkers first, coders second](https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2008/11/19/programmers-are-not-typists-first/)

Sean Washington

@seanwashbot

Rockwell Schrock

@Schrockwell

Does Not Compute · November 10, 2015

05: Learn To Learn

Things Mentioned