This repository is for the September 2014 WDI cohort.

#Learning Guide

1. Review and ask "why" a lot.

2. Research on Google:

   • MDN [your search here]
   • Stack overflow [your search here]

3. Talk to your partner / talk to your classmates

4. Ask question on StackOverflow

5. Ask instructor

• Morning: Project Review
• Afternoon: Arrays and Objects

##Week 3

####Day 1 (AN): Intro to Node and Express

####Day 2 (AS): APIs and CRUD

####Day 3 (AN): Intro to Databases and SQL

####Day 4 (AS): Database Models and Additional SQL

##Week 4

####Day 1 (AS): Sequelize - Intro to a professional-grade ORM

####Day 2 (AN): Advanced Sequelize

####Day 3 (AS): Intro to Authentication with Passport

####Day 4 (AN): Test the Models

####Day 5 (AS/AN): Project week begins

##Week 5

####Day 2 (AN): Heroku

##Week 6

####Day 1: Introduction to Ruby

#####Morning (AS):

• Everything is an object
• Object literals
• Try Ruby
• IRB

#####Afternoon (AN):

• Control Flow
• Methods

####Day 2: More Ruby - Deep dive into arrays and hashes

#####Morning (AS):

• Arrays
• Iterators
• Ranges

#####Afternoon (AN):

• Hashes
• Hash iterators
• Lab: Build your own iterators

####Day 3: Classes and Rspec (AN)

#####Morning:

• Intro to Rspec and building a Person object with TDD

#####Afternoon:

• TDD lab with Rspec; building a class hierarchy

####Day 4: Intro to Rails (AS)

#####Morning:

• Folder structure
• MVC pattern
• Sample app

#####Afternoon:

• Scaffold generator
• Models
• Asset pipeline

####Day 5: TDD with Rails (AN)

#####Morning:

• Building an app with tests, outside in
  • Request specs (routing)
  • Controller specs (actions)
  • Model specs (business logic)

#####Afternoon:

• Complete anything that we had not finished in the morning
• Begin building your own app from scratch

##Week 7

####Day 1 ActiveRecord and Authentication AS:

#####Morning: Active Record (Validations + Associations) #####Afternoon: Auth (has_secure_password) + Session

####Day 2 (Wed) Forms, Basic Routing and Resources-based Routing AN:

#####Morning: Forms #####Afternoon: Nested resources

####Day 3 (Thurs) JSON Apis and Token Authentication AS:

#####Morning: JSON API's + AJAX #####Afternoon: Token-based authentication/csrf

####Day 4 (Fri) Rails App with TDD AN:

#####Morning: Github Visit.. #####Afternoon: Build a rails app with TDD again

####Day 5 (Mon):

#####Morning AS: AJAX templating #####Afternoon AN: Github workflow