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On to Outline 02 - Getting Started with Ruby.

Summary

We consider the purpose and structure of the course.

Related Pages

• Course home page

Overview

• Quiz.
• What is this course?
• Course goals.
• Why this course?
• Course structure.
• (Possibly) setup time.

Administrivia

• Welcome back! I think I know most of you, and I'm happy to be able to teach you again.
• It's Friday. Please behave responsibly this weekend.
• CS Table Tuesday!
• Homework: Codecademy Ruby Tutorial for Monday, EdX Ruby Exercises for Wednesday. (Details forthcoming in email.)

What is this course?

Broad-based overview of software engineering, with a focus on Agile methodologies. We ground learning in the Ruby on Rails platform.

Course goals

From your perspective, what is "the subject matter of this course"? That is, what do you expect to see covered in the course?

• Write down five things.
• Share with a partner.
• Then share with the larger class.

Why this course?

Why are you taking this course? (If your answer is "Because I have to", think about why we offer this course.)

Course structure

• Skim the syllabus.
• Do you see everything you expect to learn? What's left out?
• What surprises you about the syllabus?
• What questions do you have?

Time for setup

Sign up for accounts on

a. http://github.com

b. http://edge.edx.org

c. http://www.edx.org

d. http://grinnell-cs.slack.com

e. http://c9.io

f. https://www.codecademy.com/

g. https://trello.com/

h. https://www.heroku.com/

Start the Codecademy Ruby Tutorial.

https://www.codecademy.com/learn/ruby