Software Development (with Rails) Curriculum

The goal of this repository is to aggregate all of the course materials I've developed in the first four Nashville Software School cohorts.

The Plan:

This is the unified repository of all information we have/do cover in the software development fundamentals course at Nashville Software School. It is used by the courseware to populate the course materials.

The Course Timeline:

Reference courses from the courseware are linked below. Not all of them used the courseware, or used the courseware for the whole course.

• https://coursewareofthefuture.herokuapp.com/courses/1/calendar
• https://coursewareofthefuture.herokuapp.com/courses/3/calendar
• https://coursewareofthefuture.herokuapp.com/courses/6/calendar
• https://coursewareofthefuture.herokuapp.com/courses/7/calendar

The general timeline:

Unit 0:

• Week 1, day 1: They wrap up their capstones from the last Class
• Week 1, day 2: The present their capstones in the AM. You'll have a little time for class intro material in the PM

Unit 1:

• Week 1, day 3-4: Cheers
• Week 1d4 through Week 2: Koans
• Week 3: Linked Lists
• Week 4: cal

Unit 2:

• Week 5: SQL; Start Databases/Ruby Capstone
• Week 6: Databases/Ruby Capstone; Refactor into ActiveRecord

Unit 3:

• Week 7: Sometimes a Rails Front-End/Views project
• Week 8-9: In-class Rails Project

Week 10 is not scheduled here, but one or more of the projects will take a few extra days, so don't worry about it.

Unit 4:

• Weeks 11-12: Guest lecturers and "Advanced" topics in AM; Capstone work in PM

The students present their final projects after the break.

Contributions:

Contributions are quite welcome!

We have a ton of articles that you can contribute to documented in the Github issues for this repo.

Notes:

Files with the ".markdown" extension are purposely ignored by the courseware, so that we can use that extension for non-curriculum notes and markdown files.

Contributors:

• Giovanni Delaqua (@JohnOfTheWater)
• Jeremy Ideus (@HeIsIdeus)
• Matt Lummus (@mattLumus)
• James Nix (@JamesNix)
• Aimee Knight (@AimeeKnight)
• Tyler Malone (@rtmalone)
• Mitchell Hollander (@MitchellSH)
• Matt Knicos (@mknicos)
• Steven Finley (@finleysa)
• Robert Fryman (@RJFryman)
• Nat Webb (@natwebb)
• Spencer Anastasio (@SpencerAnastasio)
• Peder Schacht (@PederSchacht)
• Adam Thede (@adamthede)
• Stephen Yeargin (@stephenyeargin)
• Kelley Stephens (@kelleystephens)
• Samantha Yeargin (@slyeargin)
• Amber Agard (@amberagard)
• Wes Mangum (@wesmangum)
• Jurnell Cockhren (@jcockhren)
• Matt Spell (@mattSpell)
• Courey Elliott (@Courey)
• Bob Paterno (@bobpaterno)

Diagramming Tools:

• Best Practice UX Forms Stencil v2.0
• State Transitions
• Website Flowcharts
• Non-techie Process Diagram / Flowchart 1.1
• git diagrams