peterylai / BEWD_DC_JAN2015

Back End Web Development, Washington DC, Jan 2015

BEWD, January 2015

Producer

• Tim Foley - [e-mail]

Instructors

• Peter Lai, WeddingWire
• Greg MacWilliam, Vox Media
• Martin Johnson

Chat

• https://dcbewd4.slack.com/

Office Hours

• Tuesday @ GA (6:30-8:30 Peter/Greg)
• Sunday @ TBD (1:30-4:30 Martin)

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Syllabus

Week 1: Terminal, Git, Ruby

• Monday:

  • Introduction
  • How the web works
  • Terminal (Command Line)
  • Intro to Ruby
    • Data types
    • Variables
    • Conditionals
    • while loops

• Wednesday:

  • Git & GitHub
  • Arrays & Hashes
  • Methods

Week 2: Ruby, Ruby, Ruby!

• Monday:

  • Enumerations

• Wednesday:

  • Classes & Instances

Week 3: Database & SQL

• Monday:

  • Databases
  • SQL
  • Intro to ActiveRecord

• Wednesday:

  • ActiveRecord
  • Relationships

Week 4: Intro to Web Applications

• Monday:

  • TCP/IP
  • Request Methods
  • Sinatra

• Wednesday:

  • Sinatra
  • Params
  • ERB

Week 5: Ruby on Rails

• Monday:

  • Rails Intro
  • Bundler
  • Controllers & Views

• Wednesday:

  • Migrations
  • One-Model CRUD
  • Form Helpers

Week 6: CRUD!!

• Monday:

  • One-to-Many CRUD

• Wednesday:

  • Many-to-Many CRUD

Week 7: APIs

• Monday:

  • HTTParty
  • Project ideas & resources

• Wednesday:

  • Nokogiri

Week 8: Authentication

• Monday:

  • Devise Gem

• Wednesday:

  • Advanced Topic (TBD)

Week 9: Advanced Topics / Final Project Work

Week 10: Project Work & Presentations