Course Ideas

tracymu commented on 5 Feb 2014 Forms Params Hash Rails Routes Regular Expressions (at least maybe an intro?) understanding the log How to work your way through 'gem dependency' problems. @joshuapaling Collaborator joshuapaling commented on 5 Feb 2014 All sound good. I'd thought to do a Routes one, and a RegEx one, also. At the moment I'm hammered at work. Working til almost midnight most nights. It sux haha. But hopefully getting some help soon so I'll try and get round to it then.

Regarding RegEx, I think people's first practical use of them will likely be finding / replacing within a project, as opposed to using them in code itself. So an idea could be to have to download some public project (Finished installFest blog, maybe?) and do a bunch of search / replaces involving regex. Or, use Rails Generators to generate a few tables / controllers / models / views, and use regex to easily change all the generated code - eg. implement Simple Form in all views using regex find and replace or something.

PS @tracymu if you want to learn Regex (or even if you've already learned it), buy this app: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/patterns-the-regex-app/id429449079?mt=12 it makes it a LOT easier. I use it all the time. @amanda08 Collaborator amanda08 commented on 5 Feb 2014 +1 to RegEx! They'll come up in all kinds of places and it's good to have a basic understanding. @puyo does a good introduction and overview of how they work. Maybe with a list of those awesome sites / apps people use to create, learn and test them. @puyo Owner puyo commented on 5 Feb 2014 @amanda08 and I were using this to help us learn: http://regexpal.com/ @tracymu Collaborator tracymu commented on 5 Feb 2014 Thanks everyone! @tracymu Collaborator tracymu commented on 11 Feb 2014 Those tools are great, thanks guys. Using them in conjunction with this 'game' thing is really helping me learn regex http://regexcrossword.com/ @mootpointer Collaborator mootpointer commented on 11 Feb 2014 Nell Shamrell does an amazing talk on the innards of regex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfwS4ibJFDw

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On 11 February 2014 17:35, TracyMu [email protected] wrote:

Those tools are great, thanks guys. Using them in conjunction with this 'game' thing is really helping me learn regex http://regexcrossword.com/

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