In this guide, I'll show you how I prefer to handle dates.
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As you go about designing and coding your application's screens, here are a few resources that you may find useful. In rough order of importance/handiness (in my experience).
You should think of a couple of pain points in your life that you would like to solve with a simple CRUD app. Remember,
The verb you want to be using with respect to startup ideas is not "think up" but "notice." — [Paul Graham, "How to Get Startup Ideas"][1]
Don't try to think up billion dollar startup ideas; our goal here is to discover a good first learning project, not to save the world just yet. Try to notice a real annoyance at work or at home or with friends that we can solve, even if for just one user -- you.
For example, [here is a project that a student made last quarter][2] -- a simple app that lets you keep track of whether or not it's time to dry clean pieces of clothing. Another student made a nice app that suggests which of your credit cards to use in order to maximize rewards based on what kind of purchase you are about to make.
In this project, we'll create our very first HTML page; a profile of ourselves. In the end, we'll work our way up to something that looks like this target.
First, we'll create the following sections in the page:
Unfortunately, for those of us on Windows, it looks like Rails Installer has a bug! We need to get going right now, so we'll have to fix it ourselves manually.
If when you type rails -v in your Command Prompt with Ruby and Rails, you get the message
The system cannot find the path specified.
then follow these steps:
| class CalculationsController < ApplicationController | |
| def word_count | |
| @text = params[:user_text] | |
| @special_word = params[:user_word] | |
| # ========================================================================== | |
| # Your code goes below. | |
| # The text the user input is in the string @text. | |
| # The special word the user input is in the string @special_word. |
A Trello board is a software equivalent of a physical wall with columns of sticky notes. In Trello terminology, the wall is called a "board." The columns are called "lists." The sticky notes in columns are called "cards."
No two products are the same, so flexibility in the product management process is important. Trello responds well to changing the structure of the process "on the fly."
This is a simplified version of Airbnb. Only worry about user stories described here. Don't worry about things like payment, etc. Assume for now that this is only a platform that facilitates communication.
This is behind a paywall (but there's a trial period). It's very low-level and tactical, so probably hard to understand right now; but you should refer developers that you work with to it, and they should either have a flow similar to this one, or good reasons for using something different:
https://thoughtbot.com/upcase/videos/git-thoughtbot-git-flow