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.
Basic/Beginner Tutorials: Get started fast
Going Further
Reference/cheatsheets
Ruby
Rails
HTML & CSS
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.
Deployment, dev/ops, performance
Git, GitHub
JavaScript
Relational Databases
RSpec
Cucumber & Capybara

Free Screencasts