Overview

• Preliminaries.
  • Admin.
  • Upcoming Work.
  • Extra Credit.
  • Questions.
• Work time.

Preliminaries

Admin

Upcoming Work

• For Friday: Work on chapter 6 of Hartl.
• For Friday: Journal
  • Subject: Reading Journal for Class 10 (Your Name)
  • What do you see as the strengths and challenges of using CSS?
  • What do you see as the strengths and challenges of using Bootstrap?
  • What aspect of the chapter 5 reading confused you the most? Try to explain it in your own words.
• For Monday: SaaSBook 2 and 4.

Good Things to Do

• Contra at 7:30 in Bucksbaum Dance Studio
• Convocation Thursday: Higher Education
• CS Extras Thursday: Internships
• Cool concert Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Sebring-Lewis. Get there early! (Doors open at 7:00 p.m.)
  • There's also a talk at 4:30 in BCA 152. Good luck finding that!
• Davis Hart '06 at 2pm today in ARH 102.
• Constitution day talk on Friday on Trans Rights. JRC 101. 7:00 p.m.
• KNiko and KAdam and some backup singers, Saturday Bucksbaum Rotunda at 8 or whenever.

Questions

Work time

Hartl is all just copy-and-paste. How are we supposed to learn anything?

1. He does give you the occasional problem. Do the problems. They aren't just copy-and-paste (although most are pretty easy).

2. You are in a 300-level class. You should be going beyond the copy and paste.

3. "What happens if I try this?"

4. "How do I accomplish this?"
5. "What files were created?"
6. "How can I make the program crash, and what message do I get when it crashes?"
   • Fun things in Ruby often involve working with the custom. What happens if you don't have an appropriately named file or method?
7. Explore the difference between the wonderful C world of "any syntax error should prevent the program from running" with the even more wonderful Web world of "best faith effort to understand code, even if the code is complete garbage"
   • What if you remove semicolons from a css rule?
   • What if you have two css rules with the same name?

Why did the screen saver go off in the middle of you typing?

Computers are sentient and malicious. More seriously, our screen saver seems to consider mouse movement as the only relevant activity.

How do I search for information on the parts of a Ruby application, such as weirdo files?

• I often search by the directory.