Basic knowledge about command line navigation in OSX or Linux will aid in comprehension of this guide.If you’ve devised a mean of completing the steps below on a Windows PC then by all means email me! With minimal modification, you can run this demo from an existing Linux PC but as a Linux user we trust you to already know this! :) You’ll need (to have access to) a Mac computer.The fact that several students had an aptitude forĬreating Web apps was not lost on us. Successfully completed their demo app and most had created at least one otherĪpp of their own design. RobĪnd I made ourselves available for assistance two evenings, and Rob went in Students were given 70 minutes of classroom time to complete it. Raspberry Pi running an Open Source operating system (Debian Linux in ourīelow is the exercise that was recently assigned to each of Coach Brinkmann’sĬlasses. It to the Web and sharing it with family, friends and classmates who enteredĭata from their computers and smart devices went far beyond interesting. Seeing an app run locally was interesting to the students.
More than 50 of Coach Brinkmann’s students, from Freshman to Seniors, createdĪnd deployed at least one Rails app to Heroku, and most completed two or more. The ability to stand-up a development system for minimal cost was crucial to Wild are hosted on “traditional” Linuxes. Heroku’s best efforts (and we LOVE Heroku) most Rails apps running in the Hosted in anything but a typical Linux environment. Heroku (a key component of the exercise below) are Having a development environment that closely resembles the productionĮnvironment builds the developer’s competence and confidence in dealing with The fact that there is no substitute for a Unix-based operating system for Windows PC labs and no capital to change that fact, we were unable to avoid
Providing the students a development environment similar to what they will encounter in a professional setting.Īfter much trial and error, constrained primarily by the school’s existing Guided learning on Windows PCs but it quickly became evident that we were We supplied the students with all the usual Participation in Business Professionals of AmericaĬompetitions and to provide them with skills very much in demand locally. Over the course of the past two school years, my colleague Robīiedenharn and I have been working with TomĪttempting to teach them Web development using Ruby on Rails to aid in their
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