Ideas - Moved from googlegroup

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Hi,
yes so I see the bug sheet for the first tutorial. Yes would be good to solve them.
In general I think the first tutorial is already good, it serves a certain purpose and did it well so far.

So what I would like to have is a follow-up tutorial so in the future it is easier to coach people who already did the first tutorial : = ))

Idea for Tutorial:

• students play around with irb and try to solve an easy problem with a method call (the easy problem needs to be an easy input output problem, e.g. insert birth year and get back chinese year)
• then students create an empty rails app with some items that need the problem to be solved (e.g. name, favouritecolour, birthyear)
• then with rake routes students learn path and how to create the view and the controller (and model)
• also students learn how to create stuff with URL only or in RAILS C (when no view and link to click yet)
• then students learn how to add the functions and click views of new,edit,update,destroy etc...
• Then as a homework students should add a migration to the railsgirlsapp from the first workshop and manually add everything (add chinese birth year to the googlemaps twitter profiles)

Key learnings:

• how to use irb
• how to call a method
• how to call a .rb file in terminal (we partly do these things during the first workshop, so it is a quick summary to make people "independant" with these tools; also students that might did some rubymonks or codecademy can apply their learnings here)
• how to create an empty rails app (repeat)
• how to make a migration
• how to use MVC and rake routes and path and the standard suit of a form, links and functions/buttons of new,edit,etc. (all the scaffold does but do it manually)
• where to put your problem solving code
• repeat from first tutorial: push to git, github and heroku

So yes this would be another copy paste tutorial that can be used as a future reference for "looking stuff up" like a cheat sheet.

Johannes study group has been doing it like this with the wishlist for xmas (thx for having me as a guest now and then :)).

In general already have been talking to Ellen about follow-up tutorials that make students "google" the reply for example.

Debbie