Fall 2018
Curriculum
Week 0
Course Logistics
Welcome to the Rails Decal! Class will be every Thursday in Kroeber 160 from 5-7PM. Check out the syllabus and HW0: the course entry survey below :)
Week 1
Introduction to Ruby and The Web
This week, we will be discussing class logistics, the basics of the Ruby language, and a cursory overview of how the mysterious entity that is "The Web" works!
Week 2
Intro to Rails
An introduction to how Rails, a web server, receives and handles requests.
Week 3
Rails Lab + Models
Now that we've dipped our feet into the world that is Rails, we're going to spend some time in-class trying it out and getting comfortable with it. Towards the end, we will introduce models and databases.
Week 4
Models and Databases
Today, we're going to dive into how to represent data and how Rails makes this as easy as possible for us!
Week 5
More on Models and Rails
We're finally bringing it all together! This is the lecture where we'll finally have talked about the entire process of building a robust Rails app! We'll learn more about creating models and the scaffolding Rails generates for us :)
Week 6
Advanced Models and Conventions Revisited
Now that we've finished learning the core fundamentals of Rails. We're going to take a step back and look at it all again. We will also discuss advanced model relationships so that you can create even more powerful applications