spring-2016-daily_lesson_plan.md

Week 5

• Friday 3/25
  • System Check: Restaurant Reviews
  • Facilitation: JS Fundamentals
  • Afternoon Challenge: Help Jerry AND Nebula
  • Weekend Challenge: Dark Nebula
  • Weekend Readings:
    • Intro to JS
    • Interactive JS
    • JS Fundamentals
    • JS Functions Basics
    • Unit Testing w/ Jasmine

• Thursday 3/24
  • Facilitation: Building an API (Sinatra API) (Rails API) (Video)
  • (Optional) Afternoon Challenge: MOTD
  • Clinic: System Check Review
  • (Optional) Evening Readings: Rails Defaults and Rails SimpleForm
  • Evening Exercise: none

• Wednesday 3/23
  • Facilitation: Nested Routes (Video Part 1) (Video Part 2)
  • Afternoon Challenge: Rescue Mission cont.
  • Clinic: User Auth (Repo) (Video)
  • (Optional) Evening Reading: Building a Rails API
  • Evening Exercise: None

• Tuesday 3/22
  • Facilitation: Rails Assets/Partials/Forms (Related Links) (Video)
  • Breakable Toy Talk
  • Afternoon Challenge: Rescue Mission cont.
  • Clinic: Foundation in Rails (Notes/Code) (Video)
  • Evening Reading: Nested Routes
  • Evening Exercise: Nested Routes Go Camping

• Monday 3/21
  • Facilitation: Intro to Rails/Routing/Controllers (Slides) (Video)
  • Afternoon Challenge: Rescue Mission
  • Evening Exercise: Wings Order Form
  • Evening Readings:
    • Rails Requests
    • Rails Forms
    • Rails Partials
    • The Asset Pipeline

Week 4

• Friday 3/18
  • System Check: Project Planner
  • Facilitation: Intro to Rails (Slides) (Video)
  • Afternoon Challenge: Heroku Deployment
  • Weekend Challenge: On Route to Success
  • Weekend Readings:
    • Model, View, Controller
    • Intro to Rails
    • Rails Routes
    • Rails Controllers

• Thursday 3/17
  • Facilitation: Deployment (Code/Instructions) (Video) (Video)
  • Afternoon Challenge:
  • Clinic: System Check Review (Notes) (Practice Repo)
  • Evening Reading: None
  • Evening Exercise: None

• Wednesday 3/16
  • Facilitation: Migration Marathon!
  • Optional Afternoon Challenge: TV Shows - Sinatra
  • Clinic: Associations Review
  • Evening Reading: Creating a Side Project
  • Evening Exercise: None

• Tuesday 3/15
  • Facilitation: ActiveRecord Associations
  • Afternoon Challenge: Meetups in Space Cont.
  • Clinic: FactoryGirl (Notes) (Old Video - Password is Winter!2015)
  • Evening Reading: ActiveRecord Validations
  • Evening Exercise: Brussels Sprouts Recipe Blog w/ Validations

• Monday 3/14
  • Facilitation: ActiveRecord Migrations
  • Afternoon Challenge: Meetups in Space
  • Clinic: ActiveRecord Livecode (Repo) (Video) (Starter Sinatra App)
  • Evening Reading: ActiveRecord Associations
  • Evening Exercise: ActiveRecord Querying and Associations

Week 3

• Friday 3/11
  • System Check: Grocery List Postgres
  • Facilitation: Intro to ActiveRecord
  • Afternoon Challenge: Contact Manager
  • Weekend Reading: ActiveRecord Migrations AND ActiveRecord CRUD

• Thursday 3/10
  • Facilitation: Migration Marathon!
  • Afternoon Challenge: Movie Catalog Deluxe
  • Clinic: System Check Review (Video) (Notes)
  • Evening Reading: none
  • Evening Exercise: none

• Wednesday 3/9
  • Facilitation: SQL Joins (Notes) (Video)
  • Afternoon Challenge: Hollywood Trivia
  • Clinic: Planning an App (Notes) (Video)
  • Evening Reading: Database Indices
  • Evening Exercise: Database Indices Exercise

• Tuesday 3/8
  • Facilitation: Database Relationships
  • Afternoon Challenge: Korning
  • Clinic: Sinatra w/ DB Livecode (Code) (Base Code) (Video)
  • Evening Reading: SQL Joins
  • Evening Exercise: Lost Dog Collars

• Monday 3/7
  • Facilitation: Ruby + Persistence (Video) (Slides)
  • Afternoon Challenge: News Aggregator Postgres
  • Clinic: Refactoring
  • Evening Reading: Database Relationships
  • Evening Exercise: Brussels Sprouts Recipe Comments

Week 2

• Friday 3/4
  • System Check: Grocery List in Sinatra
  • Facilitation: Intro to Databases (Notes) (Video)
  • Afternoon/Weekend Challenge: CSV to DB
  • Weekend Readings:
    • Persisting Data
    • Database Persistence
    • SQL Queries
    • Practical Postgres

• Thursday 3/3
  • Facilitation: Consuming/Producing APIs
  • Afternoon Challenge: API Dashboard
  • Clinic: System Check Review (Video) (Code) (Final Code) (Extra Practice)
  • Evening Reading: none
  • Evening Exercise: none

• Wednesday 3/2
  • Facilitation: Acceptance Testing (Video) (Slides)
  • Afternoon Challenge: Acceptance Test the TV Guide
  • Clinic: Foundation (Notes/Code) (Video)
  • Optional Clinic Exercise: Foundation Tutorial
  • Evening Reading: Consuming Web APIs
  • Evening Exercise: Local Events API

• Tuesday 3/1
  • Facilitation: HTTP Post and HTML Forms (Slides) (Video) (Related MDN Docs)
  • Afternoon Challenge: News Aggregator
  • Clinic: Problem Decomposition and Debugging
  • Evening Reading: Acceptance Testing
  • Evening Exercise: Acceptance Testing Pickled Beets

• Monday 2/29
  • Facilitation: Sinatra and Dynamic Views (Slides) (Repo) (Video)
  • Afternoon Challenge: Kickball Site
  • Clinic: Atom Shortcuts
  • Additional Clinic: Rack
  • Evening Reading: HTTP Post and HTML Forms
  • Evening Exercise: Need the Ingredients

Week 1

• Friday 2/26
  • System Check: Cohort Stats
  • Facilitation: HTTP GET/POST (telnet demo)
  • Career Services Presentation: Week 1 Materials
  • Afternoon Challenge: HTTP Challenge
  • Afternoon Readings: HTTP HTTP In Depth
  • Weekend Challenge: Veggie Recipe Printer
  • Weekend Reading: Dynamic Web Pages

• Thursday 2/25
  • Facilitation: OO Inheritance/Modules Video password: Spring!2016
  • Afternoon Challenge: Chillow
  • Optional Challenge: Minesweeper
  • Clinic: System Check 1 Review Repo Video password: Spring!2016
  • Evening Reading: No evening reading or challenges
  • Evening Exercise: Prepare for System Check

• Wednesday 2/24
  • Facilitation: Object Oriented Marathon
  • Afternoon Challenge: Continue working on Blackjack
  • Clinic: Pair Programming
  • Optional Challenges:
    • Connect 4
    • Bounding Box
  • Evening Readings:
    • Inheritance
    • Modules
    • Inheritance Examples
  • Evening Challenges:
    • Inheritance & The Launcher League
    • Party Module

• Tuesday 2/23
  • Facilitation: Object Composition Video password: Spring!2016
  • Afternoon Challenge: Blackjack
  • Clinic: Unit Testing Repo Video password: Spring!2016
  • Evening Challenge: Continue working on Blackjack
  • Evening Reading: Exceptions and Error Handling

• Monday 2/22
  • Afternoon Challenge: Test Flight
  • Evening Challenge: Testing Blackjack Score
  • Evening Readings:
    • Testing Command Line Interactions
    • Object Composition
    • Building A Card Deck