demo.md

Welcome WDI8

DAY ONE NOTES

Intro

• Joel
• https://github.com/coldhead & https://github.com/wofockham

Culture

• edit text files
• solve problems
• high capacity for frustration
• https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/become-the-best-web-developer-you-can-be-in-1-simple-step-b24e3b3d751
• Keep a blog GiveIt100.com , tiddlywiki.com
• the jargon file: catb.org

Syllabus

• web browsers
• text editors
• writing
• design: system, not visual
• Traditions: The Spit to Manly (half point), Project Burning Airlines (W: 8), Bowling, Unbearable Tragedy

Week 1: Intro to Prog

command line Git basics Ruby

Week 2: Intro to the Web (HTTP)

How the web works Sinatra (basic Ruby) HTML/CSS Forms and POST File I/O

Week 3: Sinatra MVC

SQL Sinatra & SQL Sinatra & Activerecord ActiveRecord Associations Intro to MVC Bundler/gemfile Deployment (Heroku)

Week 4 - Week 12:

Week 4: Week 5: Project Week #1 Week 6: JavaScript Week 7: Javascript Frameworks Week 8: Group Project Week #2 Week 9: Client Side Javascript Frameworks Week 10: Performance, Optimisation, Advanced Rails Week 11: Computer Science Week 12: Project Week #3

How the Internet Works

• see Skitch .png

Command Line

• 'top' (table of processes)
• 'Q' or 'CTRL C' (quits program)
• 'CTRL + D' (closes bash)
• 'ls' (list of files)
• 'ls -l' (list with details)
• 'cd /' (goes back to root directory)
• 'cd' (goes to home directory)
• 'whoami' (tells you your log in)
• 'mkdir' (make directory)
• 'open .' (opens folder where you are)
• 'cd ..' (go to previous directory)
• 'cd Projects/demo' (relative path into folder)
• 'cd -' (brings you back to directory you were in)
• 'cd Pr' + TAB (auto completes)
• 'cd ls -la' (long listing of all files)
• 'touch README'
• 'open -a “Sublime Text” README'
• 'cat README' (read file via terminal)
• 'history' (shows history)
• 'cp README README.backup' (copy source destination)
• 'mv File NewFile' (renames file)
• 'mv File ..' (moves files to other directory)
• 'rm' (remove files)
• 'ls c*' (list files starting with c)
• 'ls *txt' (list files ending with .txt)
• /\ (up arrow to se history of commands)
• 'which ruby' (shows you where that command is)
• 'ruby —help' (shows options you can pass into ruby)
• 'man' (manual)

gist.github.com (share one off documents)

• updated .bash_profile to open Sublime using “sub” and changed the prompt to show directory

Ruby Basics