lecture1plans.md

lesson plan:

#introductions

#jake talks

#let's talk about programming #programming is a set of instructions that a computer follows #there's syntax and concepts #across languages syntax changes but concepts stay very much the same #understanding concepts is far ore important than syntx, you can always look syntax up #let's talk about web development #web development is building software that runs on the web #ther is a client and a server #client is generally your computer and your browser #also known as frontend, javascript, html, css, xml #server is a computer that lives on a farm in virginia #ruby, python, php # HAML SASS coffeescript # java scala etc # needs to be interpretted or compiled #let's talk about ruby

ruby was written to be a language that was like engish

it is expressive, which means we do a lot by saying very little

has a LOT of abstractions, can make things easier and harder

variables, values

declare a variable by saying it's name

lower case letters

snake case

values: integers, floats, strings, booleans

= means assignment NOT equals

#input output #puts/print #get.chomp

conditional statements

== means equals, != means not equal

if

unless

loops

while

higher order structures

arrays

hashes

iteration

each

fizzbuzz

#blackjack game

#lets talk about github #version control wat? why? #git vs gtihub

#lets talk about the command line

cd, ..

mkdir

touch

#lets talk about github #local #git add ., git rm / git reset #git commit -m"if #git push #remote #pull request