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Back to Outline 01 - An Introduction to the Course. On to Outline 03 - Your First Rails Application.

Summary

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

Related Pages

• Hartl, Chapter 1

Overview

• A quick overview of Ruby.
• Setting up your first Rails app.

Administrivia

• Welcome to CSC 321!
• I'll be taking attendance for the first week or so, since I'm really bad at learning student names.
• I'm working on getting the other Web sites for the class set up. I'll let you know as soon as I do.
• Our book says to use Bitbucket, but I'm comfortable using Github, and you'll find that the instructions work more or less the same. You can use whichever you'd like.

Upcoming Work

• For Friday: Finish Chapter 1 of Hartl (including all construction).
• 8pm Thursday: Reading Journal on Hartl, Chapter 1
  • Message subject: CSC 321 Journal 3 (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?
  • What is something you found particularly confusing or puzzling in the reading?

Good Things to Do

Academic

• Convo Thursday!
• CS Extras Thursday!

Peer

• Track meet on February 6.

A Quick Overview of Ruby

• Modern programming language.
• "One" designer.
• Imperative, functional, and OOP characteristics.
• Good at "Get the job done quickly."

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?