CSC321.01 2016F, Class 03: Deploying Rails Applications

Overview

Preliminaries

I know that some of you are still working on HW1 from the Saasbook.
- I've updated the due date to Friday.
- I'd love to see some 100's from the autograder!
I'm still trying to find a mentor for CSC 321 and I'm not having much luck. If you know of anyone who has taken it already and might be available, let me know.
I've heard that some of you are not getting my email messages. I'm going to send a message to the class at the start of class, and we'll check in about fifteen minutes to see if everyone got it by then.
Sorry for the initial confusion on EdX and such. As I mentioned, we're trying a new approach with EdX, and it's not working quite as smoothly as anyone expected.
- It looks like we'll probably just treat it as a textbook that appears in the wrong order.
Use the Slack channel for questions! (That's also a reminder to me to check the Slack channel.)
We'll spend today's class working on the first chapter of Hartl. I'd suggest that you work in pairs, but if you want to work alone, that's okay, too.

Upcoming Work

For Friday: Finish Chapter 1 of Hartl (including all construction and exercises).
10pm Thursday: Reading Journal on Hartl, Chapter 1
- Message subject: CSC 321 2016S: Journal for Class 4 (Your Name)
- What, in your own words, is the MVC framework? Why do programmers use such a framework?
- Which task was the most difficult for you to complete? What instructions would have helped you get through that task faster?
- If you wanted https://yoursite.c9users.io/goodbye to show the text "Thanks for Visiting", what steps would you do? (You should have solved this as an exercise.)
- What is something you found particularly confusing or puzzling in the reading?

Good Things to Do

CS Extras (Thursday, 4:15 p.m., 3821): Graduate school
Convo, September 8 (Thursday, 11:00 a.m., JRC 101): Roberto Gonzales on "From Undocumented to DACAmented: Understanding Legal Status in a New Policy Context".
- Get a free copy of his book Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America by visiting Macy 203 during regular office times.