COGS 160

COGS 160 at UCSD Spring 2011

Resources:

Design

• Crash Course
• Designing for the Web
• 52 Weeks of UX
• Forrst
• Stop Design
• organic

Web Stuff

• HTML CSS and Javascript Primer
• Javascript Garden
• Javascript Weekly
• Backbone Resources

Git

• Git Immersion
• Git 102
• Git 201
• Git From the Bottom Up

Ruby

• Ruby Weekly
• Ruby Forum
• Learn Ruby
• Test First

Rails

• Railscasts
• Rails Tutorial

Random

• Lorem Pixum
• Test Align: Centaur

Week 0: Scratch Your Own Itch

Readings:

• Caring Like Crazy
• Nakashima Woodworking Manifesto via SvN
• Everybody codes
• Rails Tutorial: Chapter 1

Week 1: Why Are We Here?

####Readings:

• Inception Deck
• Rails Tutorial: A Demo App

Week 2:

Readings:

• Getting out of the Deliverables Business
• How to steal like an artist
• Rails Tutorial: Static Pages
• The Social Life of Paper

Week 3:

Readings:

• Git for Science
• Visual Mess
• Design Hacks
• Design Workflow
• Production Readiness
• Rails Tutorial: Rails Flavored Ruby

Week 4:

###Readings:

• Learning a language
• Rails Tutorial: Filling in the Layout
• Github Design Process

Week 5:

###Readings:

• Rails Tutorial: Modeling and Viewing Users Part I

Week 6:

###Readings:

• Rails Tutorial: Modeling and Viewing Users Part II

Week 7:

###Readings:

• Rails Tutorial: Sign Up

Week 8:

###Readings:

• Rails Tutorial: Sign in, sign out

Week 9:

###Readings:

• Rails Tutorial: Updating, showing, and deleting users

Week 10:

###Readings:

• Rails Tutorial: User Microposts

Finals Week:

Inspiration: http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/3310910483/a-shortage

Git Etiquette: Pull Request Example