Go for it man! the RoR Tutorial builds a twitter clone. The process of making the clone is the learning period. Once I'm done with going through RoR, I want to

Go for it man! the RoR Tutorial builds a twitter clone. The process of making the clone is the learning period. Once I'm done with going through RoR, I want to develop my own blog from scratch. I'm also taking some Udacity classes and Coursera as well. Lastly, get involved, do some volunteer work (e.g. design a site for a nonprofit, church, whatever..) Those kids from Standford started programming at a young age, but they built up a nice portfolio, you should do the same.