Additional Materials

Your students may also find the following external tutorials and resources helpful. Note: This list is not regularly curated, so you should vet these yourself before relying on them. At the time they were added, they passed our vetting, but some of these have been on the list a long time!
Resource links that are highlighted are specifically recommended by the book’s authors.

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 Basic/Beginner Tutorials: Get started fast
Going Further 
 Reference/cheatsheets
 Ruby
​tryruby.org

​codecademy.com​
​rubymonk.com​
​code school ruby-bits (starts free - later paid)
​codewars Ruby kata​
​rubykoans.com​
​Ruby Style Guide​
​Ruby cheat sheet
 

Rails
​Michael Hartl Tutorial​
​Bundler intro​
​Bundler best practices​
​Rails for Zombies (intro free)​
​Migrations cheat sheet
​Rails form helpers cheat sheet
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 HTML & CSS
​Learn HTML (Mozilla Foundation). We recommend just doing the section on “HTML—Structuring the Web.”
​Bootstrap 4 in 30 Minutes (FreeCodeCamp)
​codecademy.com Learn HTML
​CodeAvengers HTML/CSS tutorial​
Once you know the basics of HTML and CSS:

​Learn CSS (Mozilla Foundation) if you want to customize your CSS layouts
​CSS Diner: practice CSS interactively 
in this whimsical environment (first 15 lessons or so should be enough)
​Mozilla Thimble is a full cloud-based HTML+CSS interactive authoring environment.
​Mozilla Developer Network: HTML5​
​Bootstrap cheat sheet​
​Document Object Model (DOM) 
​CSS 
 Deployment, dev/ops, performance
 
 
​Google Web Fundamentals: towards fast, integrated, reliable, and engagin browser-based apps
 
 Git, GitHub
The git-it interactive tutorial​
​try.github.com​
​GitHubGuides​
​GitImmersion​
​Understanding Git Conceptually​
​Udacity Git Course​
​Git for Computer Scientists​
​Git Magic (advanced)
​Installing Git

​Pushing and Pulling

​An Illustrated Guide
to Git on Windows​
​Pro Git book
 JavaScript
 http://hsablonniere.github.io/
markleft/prezas/javascript-101.html#1.0​
 https://www.codecademy.com/
tracks/javascript​
 http://freecodecamp.com/ 
​JavaScript, DOM event handlers​
​https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript​
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Relational Databases
Free mini-courses (~30 mins each) from Stanford Database group: we recommend Intro to Relational Databases and Relational Algebra as a minimum
Then learn a bit about SQL Queries, and you can then practice SQL queries interactively​


​SQLite3 command line 
 RSpec
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​http://rspec.info/​
​RSpec cheat sheet
 Cucumber & Capybara


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​http://cukes.info/​
LaunchAcademy Capybara cheatsheet​


Free Screencasts 
​Railscasts - focuses on Rails-specific development issues
​RailsLab - focuses on Rails-specific operations/dev-ops issues 
​BDDcasts specializes in BDD & Cucumber TeachMeToCode​
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	Basic/Beginner Tutorials: Get started fast	Going Further	Reference/cheatsheets
Ruby	tryruby.org codecademy.com	rubymonk.com code school ruby-bits (starts free - later paid) codewars Ruby kata rubykoans.com	Ruby Style Guide Ruby cheat sheet
Rails	Michael Hartl Tutorial Bundler intro Bundler best practices Rails for Zombies (intro free)	Migrations cheat sheet Rails form helpers cheat sheet
HTML & CSS	Learn HTML (Mozilla Foundation). We recommend just doing the section on “HTML—Structuring the Web.” Bootstrap 4 in 30 Minutes (FreeCodeCamp) codecademy.com Learn HTML CodeAvengers HTML/CSS tutorial	Once you know the basics of HTML and CSS: Learn CSS (Mozilla Foundation) if you want to customize your CSS layouts CSS Diner: practice CSS interactively in this whimsical environment (first 15 lessons or so should be enough) Mozilla Thimble is a full cloud-based HTML+CSS interactive authoring environment.	Mozilla Developer Network: HTML5 Bootstrap cheat sheet Document Object Model (DOM) CSS
Deployment, dev/ops, performance		Google Web Fundamentals: towards fast, integrated, reliable, and engagin browser-based apps
Git, GitHub	The git-it interactive tutorial try.github.com GitHubGuides	GitImmersion Understanding Git Conceptually Udacity Git Course Git for Computer Scientists Git Magic (advanced)	Installing Git Pushing and Pulling An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows Pro Git book
JavaScript	http://hsablonniere.github.io/ markleft/prezas/javascript-101.html#1.0 https://www.codecademy.com/ tracks/javascript http://freecodecamp.com/	JavaScript, DOM event handlers https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
Relational Databases	Free mini-courses (~30 mins each) from Stanford Database group: we recommend Intro to Relational Databases and Relational Algebra as a minimum Then learn a bit about SQL Queries, and you can then practice SQL queries interactively		SQLite3 command line
RSpec			http://rspec.info/ RSpec cheat sheet
Cucumber & Capybara			http://cukes.info/ LaunchAcademy Capybara cheatsheet