Module 2 Curriculum

Module-Specific

• Intro to M2

Explorations

• Sinatra vs. Rails Exploration
• How the Web Works, HTTP Request/Response
• How the Web Works, DNS Edition
• Diagramming the Request Response Cycle
• Git Shortcuts and Professionalism
• Remembering Ruby
• How To Write a Great README
• How to use Waffle for Project Management
• Exploration: Sessions, Cookies and Flash Messages
• Exploration: Authentication/Autorization
• Exploration: How the Web Works
• Exploration: Shopping Cart Best Practices
• Exploration: OWASP Top Ten Web Security (coming soon)

Web Development Basics

• Intro to HTML
• Intro to HTML Exploration
• Intro to CSS & Bootstrap
• Design Principles
• Passing Data with Sinatra
• Forms in Rails

Application Basics

• Representational State Transfer
• Intro to MVC
• REST, Controllers & Routing in Rails
• Route Helpers in Rails
• Nested Resources in Rails
• Namespacing Routes in Rails
• Cookies and Sessions in Rails
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Cart & Order Lifecycle
• Intro to the Asset Pipeline

Testing

• Model Testing in RSpec
• Feature Testing in RSpec
• Factory Bot

Database Lessons

• Intro to SQL
• One to Many Relationships
• Intro to ActiveRecord in Sinatra
• ActiveRecord Associations
• Joins, Group, Order
• Database Relationships and Visualizations
• Database Normalization and Optimization
• Models, Migrations and Databases
• SQL Refresher
• Callbacks & Refactoring
• Intermediate ActiveRecord