Additional Materials
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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.
Basic/Beginner Tutorials: Get started fast
Going Further
Reference/cheatsheets
Ruby
(starts free - later paid)
cheat sheet
Rails
cheat sheet
cheat sheet
HTML & CSS
(Mozilla Foundation). We recommend just doing the section on “HTML—Structuring the Web.”
(FreeCodeCamp)
Learn HTML
Once you know the basics of HTML and CSS:
(Mozilla Foundation) if you want to customize your CSS layouts
: practice CSS interactively in this whimsical environment (first 15 lessons or so should be enough)
is a full cloud-based HTML+CSS interactive authoring environment.
Deployment, dev/ops, performance
: towards fast, integrated, reliable, and engagin browser-based apps
Git, GitHub
The
(advanced)
book
JavaScript
Relational Databases
Free mini-courses (~30 mins each) from Stanford Database group: we recommend and as a minimum
Then learn a bit about , and you can then
RSpec
cheat sheet
Cucumber & Capybara
LaunchAcademy
Railscasts - focuses on Rails-specific development issues
RailsLab - focuses on Rails-specific operations/dev-ops issues
BDDcasts specializes in BDD & Cucumber TeachMeToCode