Welcome new coders!

Winter 2015 Cohort

Your ^ Instructors

Aaron Groch

aaron@techtalentsouth.com

Jaime Panaia

jaime@techtalentsouth.com

KICKASS

Your ^ Community organizer

Melissa Lockley

melissa@techtalentsouth.com

KICKASS

Introduce yourself!

Name

Where you're from

Background (coding experience?)

Hobbies

What you hope to get out of the course

OUR NEW HOME

Strongbox west

• Free Parking

• Full kitchen & break room (downstairs)

• Arcade (in progress)

• Spots to work:
  

  • tables in common room

  • lounge downstairs

class meets for

8 weeks.

It includes

32 sessions.

That breaks down to

96 hours.

Please, please, please, please

 try to be on time to class!

Punishment
for Tardiness
includes:

• 100 mouth kisses from Jaime's dog, Frankie
   
• Snarky comments by classmates and instructors
   
• Public coding challenges

Schedule

• Class & Office Hours
  • Mon-Thu 8am-11am
  • Mon-Thu 11am-2pm
• Labs
  • Thurs 1-3pm (subject to change)
• Tours & Guest Speakers
  • TBD - subscribe to TTS Calendar
• MLK Make-up Day
  • Suggested: Fri 2/21

What we'll cover

• Web Design
  • ​HTML / CSS
     
• Programming Logic
  • Ruby
     
• Web App Development
  • Ruby on Rails

SYllabus

Week 1:
Rails Intro, HTML & CSS

Week 2: 
Programming with Ruby

WeekS 3 - 6: 

Building Rails Applications

(Travel, Blog, Twitter, Store)

Weeks 7 - 8: 
Final Projects

Tools

• Slack ​
  • For group messaging/code sharing
  • Download at: slack.com
  • Look for an invitation to the group: winter15-full-time
• Chrome​
  • Our preferred web browser
  • Download at: chrome.com
• Sublime Text 2
  • Our preferred code editor
  • Download at: sublimetext.com

Get Involved

• ATLRUG ​
  • Atlanta Ruby Users Group
  • meetup.com/atlantaruby
• Rails Girls​
  • Rails Girls Meetup Group
  • meetup.com/Rails-Girls-Atlanta
• TTS
  • Tech Talent South Meetup Group
  • meetup.com/Tech-Talent-South-Atlanta

Environment Setup

http://docs.railsbridge.org/installfest/

This is a set of step-by-step instructions for installing Ruby, Rails, and other important tools on Mac, Windows, or Linux computers. Originally developed for the Railsbridge Workshops, it is a community-supported open-source documentation project. 

Installfest

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