Description

Hello and welcome to this course.

If you are a complete beginner, web development can be challenging —this course will guide you and provide enough detail for you to feel comfortable and learn the topics properly. You should feel at home whether you are a student learning

 web development (on your own or as part of a class), a teacher looking for class materials, a hobbyist,

 or someone who just wants to understand more about how web technologies work.

The objective of this course is not to take you from "beginner" to "expert" but to take you from "beginner" to "comfortable so you can feel confident to experiment further.

The three technologies every web developer must know are :

HTML : Used to create content

CSS: Used to present the content

JavaScript : Used to create interaction

These core technologies are the building blocks of all websites and web based projects. They are collectively are used in front end web development .

Topics include:

Introduction to basic HTML

HTML document structure

Anatomy of HTML element

Marking up text

Links

Using comments and HTML Attributes

Introduction to basic CSS

Ways to apply CSS

CSS Ruleset

CSS basic selectors

Styling multiple elements

CSS Box model

Using margin and padding properties

Changing background color

CSS Display property

CSS Font property

Using google fonts

Introduction to basic JavaScript

Where to place JavaScript

Variables

Data Types

Operators

Operator precedence

Using Conditionals

Functions

Ruby is a modern object oriented programming language, and Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful  frameworks for building web applications. Rails was built using Ruby and makes it much easier to develop web applications with Ruby. Some notable applications have been built using Ruby on Rails: They incude

Basecamp, Twitter, Shopify, Github, LivingSocial, Groupon, Hulu, Airbnb, Yellow Pages to just mention a few.. A google search will reveal much more.. 

We will create a complete blog application from scratch using Rails and in the process build up your skills.

Concepts we will cover while building our blog project include:

Creating a new rails project

Updating gems using bundler

Illustration of MVC architecture

Starting rails server

Conditional statements

Loops

Creating controllers

Creating models

Associating models

creating views

Generating models

Running migrations

Creating posts

Editing posts

Reading posts

Deleting posts

Adding links to posts

Creating comments

Deleting comments

Creating controller actions

Setting up routes

Create forms

Using helpers

Adding resources and automatically generating routes

Implementing security

-By the end of this practical course you would have developed enough skills to be creative and expand this project or build similar type of projects.