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Back to Outline 02 - Getting Started with Ruby. On to Outline 04 - Your First Rails Application.

Summary

We begin our exploration of how to build and deploy Rails applications.

Related Pages

• Hartl, Chapter 1

Overview

• Setting up your first Rails app.

Administrivia

• 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.
• We'll take a quick look at what you should see on EdX.
• 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).
• 8pm 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 (Thrusday, 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.

Setting Up Your First Rails App

• We'll spend the majority of class time working on chapter 1 of Hartl.
• As a good CS student, you should go beyond the particular instructions at times and try variants. How do names come into play?