CPSC 473 - Web Programming and Data Management

Spring 2012 Course Outline

Please note that the schedule and readings are subject to change.

Date	Topics	Reading
1/25	Introduction Intro to Ruby	Beginning Rails 3, Appendix A (off campus)
2/1	Sinatra RVM RubyGems Bundler	Sinatra: Up and Running, Chapters 1-2 (off campus) Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 1 The Rails 3 Way, 1.1
2/8	Redis Git GitHub	Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 2 The Little Redis Book
2/15	Scaffolding REST Resources MVC Heroku	Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 3 The Rails 3 Way, 3.1-3.6, 3.10-3.11
2/22	Routes Controllers and Actions Layouts Sinatra Project demos	Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 4 The Rails 3 Way, Chapter 2, 10.1, 18.1-18.5, 18.7
2/29	RSpec Helpers Advanced Ruby Blueprint CSS	Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 5
3/7	HTML5 Partials Integration Tests Collaboration on GitHub	Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 6 The Rails 3 Way, 5.1-5.4, 10.2, 18.8
3/14	Migrations Models Validations Regular Expressions Environments	Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 7 The Rails 3 Way, 6.1, 6.3, 6.5, 8.1-8.5, 8.8, 1.3-1.5
3/21	Lightning Talks 1	Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 8 The Rails 3 Way, 9.2, Chapter 14
3/28	Spring Recess	Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 9
4/4	HTML Forms HAML Sessions Cookies	Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 10 The Rails 3 Way, 11.8, Chapter 13
4/11	Filters Rake Pagination Security	Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 11 The Rails 3 Way, 4.7
4/18	Associations Scopes Rails Project demos	Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 12 The Rails 3 Way, 7.2-7.4, 9.1, 5.6
4/25	Many-to-Many Associations Rails 3 Tutorial wrap-up	Rails 3 Tutorial, Chapter 13 The Rails 3 Way, 7.5.2-7.5.4
5/2	Rails 3.1 JavaScript jQuery	jQuery Fundamentals, Chapters TBD
5/9	Ajax Rails 3 Tutorial Project demos	The Rails 3 Way, Chapter 12
5/16	Final Exam, 7:30-9:20p Lightning Talks 2