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Course brainstorming and notes.md

Overall Goals

Ruby

  • Programming basics (if necessary)
  • Primary types - String, Array, Enumerable, etc
  • OO

Rails - lecture and build an app iteratively with TDD

  • CRUD
  • Auth
  • Relationships
  • Migrations?
  • Mailer
  • File uploads
  • Deployment

Git and Github

TDD/BDD with Rspec and Capybara

Intro to community

Encourage hacking on "side" apps - Open Data projects?

Heroku - woud like to be able to equip students with ability to push production code

Will probably model course along lines of Rails in Action book

Day 1

Intros - instructors and class

Review syllabus / goals for course

Assess existing student knowledge

Environment setup - Nitrous.io and Github

Encourage students to work on something on their own

Ruby segment - Ben

  • Intro to Ruby - history, design goals, etc
  • Ruby ecosystem - open source, gems
  • Where to start may be determined by student starting points
  • TryRuby.org maybe
  • Introduce ruby koans (run in Nitrous?) and possibly allow some pairing time to work on a few

Rails lecture - Jim

  • MVC
  • Structure of rails app

Resources

  • tryruby.org
  • gitimmersion.com
  • try.github.io
  • Rails guides
  • Ruby koans
  • Michael Hartl tutorial
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@janders223 - This gist is basically just a dump of my notes from this evening. Use as you like.

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Thanks, I'll run through them with Bill tomorrow to make sure we're all on the same page.

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