Brian Moynihan

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Brian Moynihan

• Learning Basic
• Ruby on Rails

November 29, 2007
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Goal Recreate 3 Screencasts

• Set up a blog
• Create a search interface for Flickr
• Migrating databases

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Challenges

• No previous programming experience- Need to learn
  Ruby
• No previous experience with a CMV (Controller,
  Model, View) Framework- Need to learn Rails
• No previous experience with an API- Need to learn
  how to configure that
• Little experience with command line and text
  editors- Need to learn Terminal and TextMate

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Tools

• Screencasts from rubyonrails.org
• Terrell Russell, teacher extraordinaire
• Beginning Ruby on Rails by Stephen Holzner
• Whys (Poignant) Guide to Ruby by Why the Lucky
  Stiff
• The Pickaxe Book- Programming Ruby by Dave
  Thomas

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Rails Framework
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Ruby
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Results
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Flickr
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Blog
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Blog
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Additional Projects
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Additional Projects
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Result