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$6,000 for an intense 11 week Ruby on Rails class at Code Academy - You can learn for free with online tutorials $99 annually for Wordpress account to announce ourselves to the world - use tumblr, blogger, or anything else that is free $10 per month to Surepayroll after you have hired your first employee - use wave accounting, it's free $99 per month for Basecamp from 37 Signals to manage projects - use asana, its free

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There are some really cool resources to learn on the web, but nothing beats hands-on, especially for beginner coders like myself. From personal experience, Code Academy excels at being the place you go to learn, to bounce ideas/questions, and a place where the progress you make dictates the flow of class. Online resources are static, they can't flex to your needs, and really when there's no community right there on tap, it's too easy to fall off.

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