Cs198-f07-syllabus

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Date
 Lecture

topics (see course homepage for details)

 Lab/homework/etc.
9/4
 Administrivia, course goals,

prereqs
Review of relevant technologies: HTTP, HTML, SQL, CGI

Hello World in Rails 		Lab 0: install RoR
9/11
 Intro to Ruby

Intro to Rails
SQL basics

 Lab 1: install MySQL, get a

simple Hello World running
9/18
 Intro to testing and "three

databases for your app"
Basics of migrations
SQL Joins
Intro to Multi-model associations

 Lab 2: multi-model associations;

get help with something online
9/25
 More models: validations

More Associations: join tables and has_many :through
More on controllers & views

 Project groups formed, project

concept adopted
10/2
 Storyboarding & CRC

(collaboration responsibility cards)
Intro to Testing

 Give 5-minute project "pitch"

(at hack sessions 10/4-5)
10/9
 Open Q&A/slop
 Review project storyboards &

CRC cards (at hack sessions 10/11-12)
10/16 (Fox poss. away)
 Debugging techniques, logs,

basic benchmarking

Deployment: version control, cap
10/23
 advanced controller & view

topics
AJAX, RJS
Plugin API's for Google Maps, Amazon

 Initial project checkpoint (in

hack sessions)
10/30 (Fox, Sobel away)
 More on Testing &

Benchmarking
Facebook plug-in API (guest speaker: Jimmy K.)
11/6
 Advanced topics:

CalNet authentication
ActionMailer
REST

 Intermediate project checkpoint

(in hack session): propose final feature list
11/13
 Overall review of Rails, using authentication flow as example

Top 10 RoR coding pitfalls


11/20
 Web 2.0 entrepreneurship Project checkpoint: informal

walkthru, final feature list checkoff
11/27
 CSS: intro and "best practices" hints (presented by Arthur and Alex)

"mobilizing" your app using CSS, VoiceXML, etc. (presented by Armando)
12/4
 Project alpha release deployed

Dryrun project demo in class
12/11
 Project demos/posters
 Project demos/posters
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