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With Brian Fountain (Digital Dir., Mister Face).
Sat, Sep 20, 2014 @ 11:00 AM   $200   General Assembly East, 902 Broadway, 4th Fl
 
     
 
 
              

  
 
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Brian Fountain
Digital Director, Mister Face

About This Workshop Series

You've got a head full of ideas when it comes to creating a web app, but where do you start? In this weekend workshop, you'll learn HTML, Rails, and GIT basics that will get you moving the right direction in your app development process. In this workshop, you will learn the basics of programming in Ruby - enough to play around with arrays, hashes, control structures, and methods. You will also be able to build and deploy a simple Rails app (Twitter clone) to Heroku.
Takeaways

Build a simple object-oriented Ruby program
Differentiate arrays and hashes
Apply loops to manipulate collections
Create and implement custom methods and classes
Explain the MVC structure and differentiate between models, views, and controllers.
Build a simple Rails app from scratch
Schedule

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Saturday, 20 September 11 am - 4 pm
Day 1: Introduction to Ruby, GitHub, and the Command Line
Explain the request/response cycle.
Learn the basics of object oriented programming in Ruby.
Variables, Conditionals, Loops, Collections, Methods, Classes, and Objects.
Navigate file structures using the command line.
Learn the basics of git and GitHub.
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Sunday, 21 September 11 am - 4 pm
Day 2: Introduction to Rails
Learn what MVC means for web apps.
Create your first Rails app using scaffolding.
Apply Rails generators to create simple models, views, and controllers.
Set up custom routes in Rails.
Implement a Twitter clone web app in Rails.
Learn how to deploy to Heroku.
Prereqs & Preparation

Students should be knowledge and comfortable in the general ways the World Wide Web works.
No pre-reqs but some pre-course work in the command line and git would be good if you are not familiar. Ideally, understand how to navigate to a folder using the command line.
Review these resources before class: - http://try.github.io/ - http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/
Preparation: - Laptop preferably a Mac but PCs welcomed. - Text editor, such as Sublime Text: http://www.sublimetext.com/ - Download/Install Ruby and Rails: http://railsinstaller.org/
About the Instructor

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Brian Fountain
Digital Director,
Mister Face
Brian Fountain is a creative technologist with a deep knowledge of narrative, programming and marketing. Recent projects include CouchCachet, Magic Story Maker and Run Sheldon! He has worked with brands such as BMW, Motorola, AllState and has over a decade of web and graphic design experience.
 
 
 
 
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