Welcome new coders!
Winter 2015 Cohort
Your ^ Instructors
Aaron Groch
Jaime Panaia
KICKASS
Your ^ Community organizer
Melissa Lockley
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)
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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
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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
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Web Design
- HTML / CSS
- HTML / CSS
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Programming Logic
- Ruby
- Ruby
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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
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Slack
- For group messaging/code sharing
- Download at: slack.com
- Look for an invitation to the group: winter15-full-time
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Chrome
- Our preferred web browser
- Download at: chrome.com
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Sublime Text 2
- Our preferred code editor
- Download at: sublimetext.com
Get Involved
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ATLRUG
- Atlanta Ruby Users Group
- meetup.com/atlantaruby
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Rails Girls
- Rails Girls Meetup Group
- meetup.com/Rails-Girls-Atlanta
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TTS
- Tech Talent South Meetup Group
- meetup.com/Tech-Talent-South-Atlanta
Environment Setup
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.