Counselling session for Ruby on Rails Course

Web Application Development with Ruby on Rails
http://leapfrog.academy/courses_ror.php
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1. Date: August 10th, 2015
   Saroj Maharjan
   @zoraslapen
   

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2. RubyNepal.org
   @ruby_nepal
   

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3. http://www.meetup.com/Nepal-Ruby-Users-Group
   

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5. Why Programming?
   ✤ Computer programming has quickly become one of the
   most lucrative industries in the US.
   
   ✤ The average salary for a computer programmer just hit an
   all-time high as it approaches $100,000.
   

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6. http://blog.bloc.io/ruby-on-rails-job-trends-report/
   

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7. Why Ruby on Rails?
   ✤ Ruby on Rails (RoR) was designed to put the
   productivity of the developer first
   ✤ Companies that want to iterate on product ideas
   quickly use RoR for their web applications
   ✤ Startup and Agile culture
   ✤ Vibrant community
   

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8. The Best Language to Learn in 2014
   

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9. Fourth-highest salary
   

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10. Salary comparison: ROR vs Java
    

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12. Who is using Rails?
    ✤ Over 600,000 websites are now running on Ruby on
    Rails, creating more need for developers
    ✤ The BIG Boys are doing it
    ✤ Twitter, Shopify, Scribd, Groupon, Basecamp,
    Crunchbase, AirBNB, Github, Slideshare, Soundcloud,
    Bloomberg, Hulu, Indiegogo, Amazon, BBC, Cisco,
    CNET, IBM, JP Morgan, NASA, Apple, Yahoo! and
    many more..
    

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14. “Ruby is designed to make
    programmers happy.”
    – Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto
    

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15. Hello World in different languages
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hello_world_program_examples
    

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16. Hello World
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hello_world_program_examples
    

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17. Ruby..
    ✤ https://ruby-lang.org
    ✤ Free, open-source, use, copy, modify, distribute
    ✤ “I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the
    world to be productive, and to enjoy programming,
    and to be happy.” - Matz
    ✤ Eg. 1000000 can be written as 1_000_000
    

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18. Ruby is Object-Oriented
    ✤ In Ruby, virtually everything is an object
    ✤ Every bit of information and code can be given their
    own properties and actions
    ✤ Flexible language
    ✤ Ruby tries not to restrict the coder
    

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19. http://leapfrog.academy/courses_ror.php
    

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20. Job Prospect for Bootcamp Grads
    

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21. Web Application
    ✤ A program or application that is run and used on separate computers / browsers
    ✤ Collection of static and dynamic web pages
    ✤ website vs web application
    ✤ static content vs user interaction
    ✤ simple html vs complex app/db backend
    ✤ eg. news website vs facebook feed
    ✤ web server and application server
    ✤ server side scripting / computation
    

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22. RubyonRails.org
    ✤ Rails was created in 2003 by David Heinemeier Hansson
    ✤ Extracted from Basecamp web application
    ✤ 100% Ruby
    ✤ https://github.com/rails/rails
    

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23. Ruby on Rails App
    ✤ MVC Framework
    ✤ RAD - Rapid Application Development
    ✤ Automagical
    ✤ Rails Philosophy
    ✤ Convention over Configuration
    ✤ DRY - Don’t Repeat Yourself
    ✤ Active Record Pattern
    ✤ Omakase
    

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24. http://leapfrog.academy/courses_ror.php
    

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25. “If you could get up the
    courage to begin,
    you have the courage to succeed.”
    –David Viscott
    

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26. Any Queries needed to Digest?
    

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