App Academy Projects

==================== This repository contains a list of projects completed for App Academy.

Week 1

W1D1

• Primitive Ruby types (common methods)
• Debugging
• Running/loading Ruby code

W1D2

• Methods
• Iteration
• Symbols, Strings, and Option Hashes
• Input/Output
• Classes
• Pass by reference

W1D3

• Refactoring and Code Smells
• Scope
• Hash Defaults

W1D4

• Blocks
• Recursion

W1D5

• Intro data structures

Additional Recursion exercises

Practice Assessment

Week 2

W2D1

• Serialization (JSON and YAML)
• Gems and rbenv

W2D2 and W2D3

• Class inheritance
• Exceptions, error handling
• Decomposition into objects
• Inheritance, Polymorphism and DRY
• Information hiding/encapsulation

W2D4

• Chess solo project and debugging

W2D5

• Introduction to RSpec
• RSpec Syntax
• TDD
• Test doubles
• subject and let
• guard-rspec

Practice Assessment

Week 3

W3D1

• SQL Fundamentals
• Formatting SQL Code

W3D2

• SQL + Ruby
• SQLite3
• Heredocs

W3D3

• Migrations
• ORM
• Associations
• Rails Conventions
• Validations
• ActiveRecord and Indexes

W3D4

• ActiveRecord::Relation
• ActiveRecord and Joins
• Scopes

W3D5

• Introduction to RSpec
• RSpec Syntax
• TDD
• Test doubles
• subject and let
• guard-rspec

Practice Assessment Associations

Practice Assessment SQL

Week 4

W4D1

• Routing
• Controllers
• JSON API

W4D2

• HTML
• Views
• ERB
• HTML Form Basics
• Rails Parameter Conventions
• Mass Assignment
• PATCH, PUT, and DELETE
• Debugging

W4D3

• Cookies
• Controllers and State
• CSRF and Forms
• displaying validation errors, flash
• Authentication: Creating Users and Sessions

W4D4

• ActionMailer
• View helpers
• View layouts
• View partials

W4D5

• Polymorphic Associations
• Concerns

Practice Assessment

Week 5

W5D1

• RSpec and Rails Setup
• Testing Models
• FactoryGirl and Faker Gems
• Integration Testing with Capybar

W5D2 and D3

• HTTP
• Rebuilding Rails

W5D4

• Codecademy JS Curriculum
• jQuery Fundamentals: JavaScript Basics
• Server-side JavaScript
• Object-oriented JavaScript
• Function invocation
• Closures and Scope

W5D5

• Intro to Callbacks: File I/O
• this and that
• Ways to Call a Function (exercises)
• The Module Pattern
• JavaScript Style

Practice Assessment

Week 6

W6D1

• arguments
• Prototypal Inheritance
• Client-side JavaScript
• Modules in the Browser
• Asynchronous Client-side Code
• Basic Canvas Drawing

W6D2

• Semantic HTML
• CSS Selectors
• The Box Model
• CSS Display Attribute
• Positioning and Floating

W6D3

• The Document Object Model
• jQuery I: Selection and Manipulation
• jQuery II: Events
• jQuery III: Ready
• jQuery IV: All The Ways
• jQuery V: Data Attributes

W6D4

• jQuery VI: Event Delegation
• jQuery VII: Triggering
• Intro to jQuery Plugins

W6D5

• jQuery Fundamentals: AJAX
• Basic AJAX
• AJAX Remote Forms
• Underscore Templates

Practice Assessment

Week 7

W7D1

• Backbone.Model
• Backbone.Collection

W7D2

• Backbone.View
• Backbone.Router

W7D3

• CollectionView pattern
• Backbone.Event
• Getting Started With Backbone

W7D4

• Backbone parse

W7D5

• RailsCast on Jbuilder
• Composite View

W8D1

• jQuery UI