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Use this gist to write down notes and questions as you read through the lesson plan. https://github.com/turingschool/lesson_plans/blob/master/ruby_04-apis_and_scalability/react_in_theory.markdown

What does React do?

It is a small view rendering library that works in components.

How does React interact with the DOM?

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Rails Models

Generating models

$ rails g model User

Associations

belongs_to

has_one

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Picking A Project to Work On

• Find a Repo that is primarily written in a language you're comfortable with.
  • Check out 24pullrequests.com
  • Talk to mentors that regularly contribute to open source for suggestions
  • Think about tools you already use like rspec or minitest.
  • Browse around Github
• Avoid 'dead' repos - look at open PRs for the project - if a ton unmerged, project may be dead. Also look at stars for the repo and last commit date on master.
• Look at the open issues for ones you can help with
• Look at coverage reports and builds for areas that are untested
• Fork the repo

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class Player
  
  def play_turn(warrior)
    if warrior.feel.empty?
      warrior.walk!
    else
      warrior.attack!
    end
  end
end

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Beginning Regex

Intro to Regular Expressions by Michael Fitzgeral
http://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Regular-Expressions-ebook/dp/B008K9OGDA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1374171971&sr=8-2&keywords=Regular+Expressions

Using Regular Expressions in Ruby: Part 1 by Nell Shamrell 
https://www.bluebox.net/insight/blog-article/using-regular-expressions-in-ruby-part-1-of-3

Intermediate Regex

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<http://nokogiri.org>
- Includes helpful tutorials

<http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/chapters/html-parsing/>
- An easy to understand explanation

<http://railscasts.com/episodes/190-screen-scraping-with-nokogiri>
-Railscast Video

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Katrina's Beautiful Mapping Layout (most impressive) https://github.com/MappingKat/gschool-map-blog

Simon's Intentionally Tacky Style https://github.com/srt32/gschool-blog/tree/styling
https://db.tt/dQoh2Kb4

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Simon
https://github.com/srt32
http://www.simontaranto.com/

Louisa
https://github.com/LouisaBarrett
http://www.linkedin.com/in/louisabarrett

Kevin
https://github.com/x46672

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I can explain the difference between function declarations and function expressions.

I can explain what the value of this is in a normal function.

I can explain what the value of this is when called from the context of an object.

I can explain how to explicitly set the value of this in a function.

I can explain the difference between call and apply.

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Array Prototype Methods

I understand that functions in JavaScript can take any number of arguments.

I can describe the similarity between blocks in Ruby and anonymous functions in JavaScript.

Where are the methods available to all arrays (e.g. forEach, map, etc.) defined?

I can explain the difference between using a for loop and the forEach method.