Hi,
yes so I see the bug sheet for the first tutorial. Yes would be good to solve them.
In general I think the first tutorial is already good, it serves a certain purpose and did it well so far.
So what I would like to have is a follow-up tutorial so in the future it is easier to coach people who already did the first tutorial : = ))
Idea for Tutorial:
- students play around with irb and try to solve an easy problem with a method call (the easy problem needs to be an easy input output problem, e.g. insert birth year and get back chinese year)
- then students create an empty rails app with some items that need the problem to be solved (e.g. name, favouritecolour, birthyear)
- then with rake routes students learn path and how to create the view and the controller (and model)
- also students learn how to create stuff with URL only or in RAILS C (when no view and link to click yet)
- then students learn how to add the functions and click views of new,edit,update,destroy etc...
- Then as a homework students should add a migration to the railsgirlsapp from the first workshop and manually add everything (add chinese birth year to the googlemaps twitter profiles)
Key learnings:
- how to use irb
- how to call a method
- how to call a .rb file in terminal (we partly do these things during the first workshop, so it is a quick summary to make people "independant" with these tools; also students that might did some rubymonks or codecademy can apply their learnings here)
- how to create an empty rails app (repeat)
- how to make a migration
- how to use MVC and rake routes and path and the standard suit of a form, links and functions/buttons of new,edit,etc. (all the scaffold does but do it manually)
- where to put your problem solving code
- repeat from first tutorial: push to git, github and heroku
So yes this would be another copy paste tutorial that can be used as a future reference for "looking stuff up" like a cheat sheet.
Johannes study group has been doing it like this with the wishlist for xmas (thx for having me as a guest now and then :)).
In general already have been talking to Ellen about follow-up tutorials that make students "google" the reply for example.
Debbie
Hi,
yes so I see the bug sheet for the first tutorial. Yes would be good to solve them.
In general I think the first tutorial is already good, it serves a certain purpose and did it well so far.
So what I would like to have is a follow-up tutorial so in the future it is easier to coach people who already did the first tutorial : = ))
Idea for Tutorial:
Key learnings:
So yes this would be another copy paste tutorial that can be used as a future reference for "looking stuff up" like a cheat sheet.
Johannes study group has been doing it like this with the wishlist for xmas (thx for having me as a guest now and then :)).
In general already have been talking to Ellen about follow-up tutorials that make students "google" the reply for example.
Debbie