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I teach as an adjunct faculty in the Computer Information Systems department at Spokane Community College

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Course Technology - Ruby on Rails Presentation

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Blocks and Procs

March 12th, 2008 |

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Inheritance - using 'super'

March 9th, 2008 |

Can you hear the Superman theme song now? :)

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Duck Typing

March 4th, 2008 |

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Introduction to Inheritance

March 2nd, 2008 |

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Sorting and Enumerable Assignment

February 24th, 2008 |

This is a pretty hefty assignment, I suggest you start ASAP! Post questions here as usual.
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Array review and Enumerable usage

February 24th, 2008 |

The Array class (as well as others) includes the Enumerable module (http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Enumerable.html). It provides a lot of power when dealing with collections. Great stuff. Please review the array functionality as well as the cool things you can do because of the methods in Enumerable.
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Update – I just ran into an article that writes about this topic: http://www.rubyfleebie.com/life-beyond-the-each-iterator/

Sort by lecture

February 21st, 2008 |

Source code for sort_by

Comparable Lecture

February 18th, 2008 |

Source code:
Comparable operator
Comparable in your custom class

Video Lecture:

This weeks lecture topics

February 17th, 2008 |

Comparable Module:

• pages 251-253 in your book
• http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/Comparable.html

sort and sort_by

• pages 307-311 in your book

Enumerable Module

• pages 287-289
• http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Enumerable.html

Rspec

February 7th, 2008 |

Here is your reading to prep you for the next topic of study. Lectures to follow.

• http://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-do-i-gain-from-tdd-or-bdd.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8135690990081075324
• http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/articles/2007/05/14/an-introduction-to-rspec-part-i
• http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/7058

CIS 283 - Modules Assignment

February 7th, 2008 |

Get Modules Assignment

Modules Example

February 4th, 2008 |

Code:
UnDRY solution without modules
DRY solution with modules

Sorry about the audio in this one. There are more hisses and pffs than I care to admit.

CIS 282 - Regular Expressions

October 29th, 2007 |

http://rubyurl.com/YGl or http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddhknw46_56cxtjx5

CIS 282 - Beginning Java

October 1st, 2007 |

Book and Reference websites

• “Ruby for Rails”, Black
• Learn to Program
• Pickaxe
• Ruby Docs
• Ruby Examples
• Ruby Tutorial and Study Notes
• http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/

Objectives

• Problem solving
• Developing algorithms
• Writing object-based programs
• Writing object-oriented programs

Course Outline

• Review – conditional expressions
• Chapter 9 – iterators, boolean, conversions
• Chapter 10 – strings, symbols, numerics
• Chapter 11 – Arrays and Hashes
• Chapter 4 – Methods
• Chapter 12 – Regular Expressions
• Chapter 5 – Classes and Objects
• Chapter 13 – Ruby Dynamics