ATTENTION: This session requires advance signup to attend. For Online Schedule: Please utilize the RSVP link below the description to reserve your seat. For SXSW GO App: Use the RSVP 'Find a Timeslot' link. You must have a SXSW Interactive, Gold, or Platinum badge to attend, and, you must have an activated SXsocial account (social.sxsw.com) to reserve a seat. If you have any issues with signing up, please email support@sxsw.com. VERY IMPORTANT: Because of the limited space, we recommend you arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the published start time of this session. If you have not checked in at the room you RSVPed for at least five minutes prior to the session start time, you may lose your seat to an attendee in the waiting list line.
Prerequisites:
Participants should be knowledgeable and comfortable in the general ways the World Wide Web works. No pre-reqs, but some pre-course work in the command line would be good if...
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ATTENTION: This session requires advance signup to attend. For Online Schedule: Please utilize the RSVP link below the description to reserve your seat. For SXSW GO App: Use the RSVP 'Find a Timeslot' link. You must have a SXSW Interactive, Gold, or Platinum badge to attend, and, you must have an activated SXsocial account (social.sxsw.com) to reserve a seat. If you have any issues with signing up, please email support@sxsw.com. VERY IMPORTANT: Because of the limited space, we recommend you arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the published start time of this session. If you have not checked in at the room you RSVPed for at least five minutes prior to the session start time, you may lose your seat to an attendee in the waiting list line.
Prerequisites:
Participants should be knowledgeable and comfortable in the general ways the World Wide Web works. No pre-reqs, but some pre-course work in the command line would be good if you are not familiar. Ideally, understand how to navigate to a folder using the command line. Review these resources before class: - http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book
What to Bring:
Preparation: - Laptop preferably a Mac but PCs and Linux welcomed. - Text editor, such as Sublime Text: http://www.sublimetext.com/ - Download/Install Ruby and Rails: http://bit.ly/ror-install
You’ve got a head full of ideas when it comes to creating a web app, but where do you start? In this workshop, you will learn the basics of programming in Ruby - enough to play around with arrays, hashes, control structures, and methods. You will also be able to build and deploy a simple Rails app (Twitter clone) to Heroku.
Section 1 - Ruby Basics (2.5 hours)
Break - (half hour)
Section 2 - Rails (4 hours)
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