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- 1. Web Dev CrashCourse Zane Staggs - CodingHouse.co 1
- 2. Your instructor Husband, Fatherand Developer Living the dream... MIS graduate U of Arizona Coding House BetterDoctor 2
- 3. Coding House Learn howto code 60 days of Intensive training Physical activities and food provided Full time immersion in coding environment Hands on mentorship and career placement Accessible to bart First class in January 3
- 4. So you wantto be a web/ mobile developer? Coding languages: html/php/ruby/java/ javascript/c Design skills: user interface, photoshop, illustrator, optimizing graphics Business skills: communication, group/ team dynamics, Everything else: optimization, seo, sem, marketing, a/b testing, unit testing, bugs, debugging, operating systems, browser bugs/quirks, devices, responsiveness, speed, 4
- 5. Why would youwant to do this? Wild West days of the internet Fun, creative Technology Career Fame and Fortune Startups 5
- 6. It’s actually notthat hard Today we will do a high level overview so you are at least familiar with the concepts that a web developer must deal with on a daily basis. It’s the bigger picture that matters when dealing with business people and engineers. I’m here to show you the quick and dirty. 6
- 7. The web browser Verycomplicated client software. Lots of differences between platforms (os) and rendering engines: gecko (firefox), webkit (safari/chrome) Reads markup, css, and js to combine to a web page IE is the underdog now, always a pain for web devs but getting better slowly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Comparison_of_web_browsers 7
- 8. How the webworks Client/Server (front vs back end), networking, ip addresses, routers, ports, tcp/ip = stateless protocol Request/Response Life Cycle DNS (translates readable requests to map to servers) API’s (rest, xml, json, etc) Databases (mysql, mssql, mongodb) Markup languages (html, xml, xhtml) Doctypes 8
- 9. Client/Server Communications Client requests datafrom a server, server responds Cloud based/virtualization = many servers on one box sharing resources through software virtualization 9
- 10. DNS requests Browser requeststo look up a website address, hits the closest DNS server says yes I know where that is it’s at this IP address. Cacheing, propagation Nameservers 10
- 11. APIs API = ApplicationProgramming Interface - good for decoupling your application. Data access. JSON = Preferred format for describing and transferring data native js object, nested attributes and values XML = brackets and tags, old school and heavier REST = (REpresentational State Transfer) - url scheme for getting and updating/creating data based on http requests HTTP Requests: GET, POST, UPDATE, DELETE Error codes: 200, 404, 500, etc 11
- 12. Databases Like a bigexcel sheet, way to organize and retrieve data through columns and rows (schemas) Runs on the server responds to requests for data using specified syntax like SQL, JSON Example SQL: “select type from cars where color = blue” Mysql, MSSQL = traditional relational database MongoDB = schema-less, nosql database 12
- 13. Markup Languages HTML5 -modern html lots of new features, not even an official approved spec but vendors started implementing them anyway. W3C/standards Doctype tells the browser what spec to adhere to. DOM = Document Object Model: tree of elements in memory, accessible from javascript and the browser 13
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- 15. Let’s create awebsite HTML CSS Javascript General Programming Concepts 15
- 16. HTML Descendant of xmlso it relies on markup <p>text inside</p>, a few are “self closing” like <img /> Nesting Hierarchy: html, head, body - DOM Can have values inside the tag or as attributes like this: <p style=”....”>some value inside</p> http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_quick.asp 16
- 17. HTML5 Latest spec New html5tags: article, section, header, footer, video, audio, local storage, input types, browser history, webrtc http://www.creativebloq.com/web-design-tips/ examples-of-html5-1233547 http://www.html5rocks.com/en/ 17
- 18. CSS Style definitions forlook and feel can be inline, in a separate file, or in the <head> of the document. Describe color, size, font style and some interaction now blurring the lines a bit Media queries = responsive Paths can be relative or absolute Floating, scrolling, and centering stuff. Modern stuff, table layout, flexbox, not supported yet everywhere 18
- 19. Javascript (not java) Most ubiquitouslanguage, also can be inline, in the head, or in a separate file. Similar to C syntax lots of brackets Actually a lot of hidden features and very flexible Scope is important concept, window object, event propagation Console, debugging with developer tools or firebug Polyfills for patching older browsers to give them support 19
- 20. General coding tips Goodeditor with code completion and syntax highlighting (webstorm or rubymine recommended) Close all tags first then fill it in. Test at every change in all browsers if possible. Get a virtual box and free vm’s from ms: modern.ie Get a simulator, download xcode and android simulator Minimize the tags to only what you need. Semantics: stick to what the tags are for 20
- 21. Jquery Javascript framework, usedeverywhere. Free and open source. Simplifies common tasks with javascript and the DOM $ = get this element or group of elements using a selector Plugins $.ready = when document (DOM) is completely loaded and ready to be used 21
- 22. Jquery Plugin Example Addthe jquery language to your code Add carousel plugin js file Wire up the necessary components and start the plugin http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle2/ 22
- 23. Bootstrap CSS Framework fromTwitter. Include the CSS file and js file Use the various components as needed. Override styles as necessary http://getbootstrap.com/ Available themes: wrapbootstrap.com (paid), bootswatch.com (free) 23
- 24. Modern front endweb development HAML and SASS, Compass, Less, Static site generators: middleman, jekyll Coffeescript (simpler syntax for javascript) Grunt and Yeoman (build anddependency management) Node JS (back end or server side javascript) MVC frameworks: backbone js, angular js http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/11/TheLandscape-Of-Front-end-Development-AutomationSlides 24
- 25. Server side Server sitsand wait for requests. It responds with some data depending on the type of the request and what’s in it. Port 80 is reserved for website traffic so anything coming on that port is routed to the webserver on the machine. Apache, Nginx The server says oh this is a request for a rails page so let’s hand this off to rails let it do its thing then respond with the result. Rails runs some logic based on the request variables, session values and checks the database if needed to look up more data 25
- 26. Basic Server Admin Windowsvs Linux Terminal basics: cp, rm, cd, whoami, pwd Services need to be running and healthy like mail, bind (dns), os level stuff disk space etc Security Backups http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/100 26
- 27. Version Control Git/Github -distributed version control SVN/CVS - older non distributed Branching Merging diffs Pushing to master https://www.atlassian.com/git/workflows 27
- 28. Ruby on Rails Ruby= another programming language with very nice syntax almost natural sounding and less code to write Rails = framework for developing web applications Model = data & business logic View = html, erb, haml Controller = decides where to go, where to get data, and view Gems = packages of ruby code for reuse, easy management system. Active Record, Rake: DB Migrations MVC = model (data), view (view), controller (routing) Development process: Bundler Write once, convention over configuration 28
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- 30. Ruby Ruby is "aninterpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming" -- what does this mean? interpreted scripting language: ability to make operating system calls directly powerful string operations and regular expressions immediate feedback during development quick and easy: variable declarations are unnecessary variables are not typed syntax is simple and consistent memory management is automatic object oriented programming: everything is an object classes, methods, inheritance, etc. singleton methods "mixin" functionality by module iterators and closures http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/ruby/index.html 30
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- 32. Let’s build aRails application rails --version rails new blog rails server Controller: receive specific requests for the application Model: encapsulates the data access and business logic View: displays the collected information in a human readable format: ERB, Haml Routes: mapping urls to controllers and actions http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#creating-a-new-railsproject 32
- 33. Mobile web development HTML5vs Native vs Hybrid PhoneGap Appgyver - fast way to get an app on the phone and development Objective C/xcode - Native Iphone Android: Java 33
- 34. Key Takeaways Don’t giveup the more you see it the more it will sink in Do free/cheap work until you get good Pay attention to the minor details User experience is paramount Always do what it takes to meet goals while managing the tradeoffs and complete as fast as possible Stay on top of new tech 34
- 35. Questions Have any questionsspeak up! 35