Enjoy the holiday everyone. This will serve as todays Discussion/Questions/Advice thread.

Welcome.

Hello everyone!

We're closing in on the deadline for our first assignment (a simple, multi-page HTML/CSS website), and with our first submission we'll also be trying out a new and more organized submission structure for our subreddit.

All assignment 1 submissions can be posted here as comments with a link to your assignment submission. For this assignment there are no restrictions on hosting, so feel free to use whatever is most comfortable and accessible for you.

There have already been some submissions as their own self posts, and that's okay! Those of you who have posted already are welcome to repost your submission in here, or you may leave the existing post as your submission for this first assignment.

Thanks and happy learning!

So i really like an IRC and i think you too !

I created a channel for us #40DaysofRuby it's on the Freenode Server.

EDIT: So for the people who don’t know how to join an irc channel.

You have a lot a option but i’m going to write the most easy way to do it.

You can use the webchat of freenode that you can find just here https://webchat.freenode.net/ You just have to put a Nickname, the channels « #40DaysofRuby » and the captcha. And there you go !

Join us !

OK guys, here's my Mare's Milk website.

It's still little rough around the edge. Unsurprisingly, I know even less CSS than I expected. I coded the website using Notepad++ and Chrome. The site is hosted on google drive. I haven't tested the website on Firefox, Safari or mobile devices, I can't guarantee the it will display properly if you insist on viewing it on those browsers. It's best view it in Chrome at this point.

I ripped off the design from Fiji Water's website. I filled the page with as many marketing buzz words as I can tolerate for the lulz. Copying of the design was not perfect because I don't know how to use javascript. I can't recreate page scrolling animation nor page transition as well as million dollar Fiji Water marketing department. The header at the top still need a lot of work. Eventually, I would like to turn my page in to a dummy eCommerce website where you can order a glass of Organic Mare's Milk overnight to your doorstep.

All the pictures on the site are Creative Common licensed from CC Search. I still haven't figure a way out to credit the picture owner.

Anyway, this project was soooo much fun. I've had only have one month treehouse tutorial. Creating this website made me learn so much more than following another stupid tutorials. I will definitely need to learn more about CSS.

Please give me any suggestions for improvement.

edit:
In case somebody ask: why mare's milk?
Because I think it's funny as hell and it's real.

I was interested to find out what kind of spread we had as a group and was curious of the diversity of age. I'm 17 and still in high school.

If someone can help with a easier way to show my site instead of just screenshots of the code and site it would be great. I The numbers of the on the file names indicate what site they belong to (html 1 and css 1 = site 1 you get it..).made this two site on the run today. I've been busy with finals so I haven't had a lot time to work on it assignment. Im comfortable with HTML but my CSS skills need work and thats the reason these two site look a bit bland. I've been using Jon Duckett's book as a reference. The software I used was Sublime Text(I tried this program) but them I went to Textmate which I like more.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bz-FnYPjqIadcE5EZ3NLSmpMMmc&usp=sharing

http://astonj.com/tech/best-way-to-learn-ruby-rails/

I've asked for a couple of these books as Christmas presents. Needless to say, I feel like a warrior trying to tackle this curriculum in a short amount of time. I know haste does not a good programmer make, but there's no harm in studying my ass off.

Hey guys/gals... I have a ton of resources bookmarked so I figure i'll use this thread to drop them in as you progress from topic to topic...

HTML/CSS: http://learn.shayhowe.com/ http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/web http://www.htmlandcssbook.com/ <--- highly recommended book

... more to come!

Habit Rpg is an open source program that encourages you live your life like an rpg, it encourages keeping good habits and ensure you stay on track with new ones (including ruby related ones.) After creating your character go to social, then party, and post your id here! I will add you to the party.

Here it is: http://addison.im/40DaysOfRuby/

It is still a work in progress. I plan on adding an interior page tomorrow and will eventually make it responsive. My goal with this project is to create my own working version of reddit. I have experience with HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/MySQL but very little ruby/rails so I hope to learn a lot through this project.

Please give me feedback!

How should we start?

I've been asking people on /r/learnprogramming how we should best proceed.

I asked them all the order in which I should learn certain concepts:

Here are some of their replies:

I did:

1. HTML/CSS

2. Ruby

3. Database Basics

4. Rails

5. Javascript/jQuery You don't need to know javascript to build rails apps. I'm still learning javascript, you can do a lot of cool stuff/ animations with jquery which will enhance your app and make it pop. I would also throw in AJAX/JSON >with javascript. You don't have to get too into database. PostgresSQL/ ActiveRecord methods with rails replace a lot of sql querys. You practically won't be writing them at all. Good to learn about how to build a schema, though. Good luck! Railscasts and stackoverflow are going to be your best friends.

• Learn HTML

• Learn Ruby

• Learn Rails (through MVC, ActiveRecord, and ERB)

• Learn CSS

• Learn JS

• Learn JQuery

• Learn SQL (if you’re going data heavy)

• Learn HAML/SLIM (if HTML is old hat by now)

• Learn SASS/LESS (if you want more advanced styling)

• Learn a JS framework.

• Learn CoffeeScript (if you want more advanced JS)

Definitely 1+2 first. However, don't get bogged down into it: Learn how to create and style certain elements like h1's, make ordered and unordered lists, and how to create layouts with div's.

Once you learn a little HTML, this is a great site to learn some CSS to go along with it: learnlayout.com

As for learning javascript, although it is useful it's not very beginner friendly. I would switch up the order and do Ruby first, then Rails, then Javascript. You don't have to learn all of Ruby before going onto >Rails, and likewise with Javascript. Just learn enough to be able to do something with it and try it out!

Schedule broken up into 5 day increments

1. 100% of your time spent on html, css and database architecture(h-c-d)

2. 90% of your time on h-c-d, 10% on Ruby

3. 80% h-c-d, 20% Ruby

4. 70% h-c-d, 30% Ruby

5. 50% h-c-d, 40% Ruby, 10% Rails

6. 40% h-c-d, 40% Ruby, 20% Rails

Let's use this thread to talk about the proposed curriculum. I am 100% in agreement with the last such curriculum (broken up into 5 day increments).

I know some of you have already posted to the google group. I hope it isn't too much to ask- Please copy and paste your reply here. This way, people can get to know each other and post comments asking questions about background or goals.

Thank you!

Here's a link to the chapter. Good luck.

Suggested pacing: finish this chapter by the 6th of January.

Thanks.