wdi-hk-sep-2014 / notes

Notes for WDI course

WDI HK Sep 2014

Here hosts links about the projects we will be building over weeks.

Projects

• Portfolio
• CoffeeScript
• 2048 Intro
• Food Dragon
• Meal Time

Code Challenges

• CoffeeScript Practice
• Arrays & Hashes
• Arrays
• jQuery web-based Exercise Drills
• Debugging Exercises
• jQuery AJAX on OMDB API
• Rails Model / ActiveRecord
• PepperLunch

5-min Quiz

• Ruby Quiz D.R.Y.
• Using http methods in Rails
• BDD
• Model Association
• JSON API

Structure

Phase 1: Fundamentals

Quick Review at: https://gist.github.com/harryworld/ceebff030e0933516b29

1. Programming History
2. GitHub
3. jQuery
4. CoffeeScript
5. Function
6. 2048 Intro
7. Variable
8. Array
9. Hash
10. Conditionals
11. Loops
12. Debug
13. Open Web
14. CSS
15. Board Array
16. Generate Tile
17. Move
18. Sum
19. Check Win
20. Check Lose
21. Deploy
22. jQuery AJAX

Phase 2: Rails Project

1. Stakeholders
2. User Needs
3. Job Stories
4. Wireframing
5. Initial HTML
6. Project Ideas
7. Ruby Env
8. Rails
9. Bundle
10. MVC

• HTTP Verbs

11. BDD
12. Browsers
13. OOP
14. Capybara
15. Routing
16. Controller
17. View
18. RSpec
19. Model
20. Relational Database

Phase 3: Advanced Rails

• 1st Pass

  1. GitHub Open Source Community
  • Fork Project
  • Pull Request
  2. Define Stakeholders
  3. Conduct need assessments
  4. Develop Job Stories
  5. Create Wireframes

• 2nd Pass

  1. Layout the architecture
  2. Building API in Rails
  3. Creating the Board
  4. Implements SASS
  5. Introduces AngularJS
  6. ng-repeat / ng-click
  7. AngularJS Controller
  8. Link the API in AngularJS ($http)
  9. Devise Ajax Login
  10. Introduces NoSQL (postponed)

• 3rd Pass

  1. Setup ActiveRecord aggregate functions
  2. Learn SQL
  3. Switch from SQLite to PostgreSQL
  4. Heroku Deployment
  5. Server Logs
  6. Heroku Addons
  7. Action Mailer / Mailgun
  8. JavaScript scope

Phase 4: Final Project

• Meteor
• RSpec
• d3.js
• Others