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Contact Information:

Instructor:	Zachary Kurmas	Office:	MAK C-2-316
Phone:	331-8688	Office Hours:	MW 11:00-12:00
Home page:	http://www.cis.gvsu.edu/~kurmasz		Th 5:00-6:00 (downtown)

Course Documents:

• Syllabus
• CIS Academic Honesty Policy

Announcements:

I will post announcements at Piazza. Please check there regularly.

Discussion Board:

Please post questions about homework, projects, etc. to Piazza. Doing so allows everybody to see the question and answer and saves me the time of answering the same question multiple times. Other students can also answer your question, which may help you get a faster response.

Grades:

I will post grades on Blackboard.

Assignments:

Due	Name	Details
Thu. 10 Jan.	Reading 1: Week 1 Reading	(Not due for credit.)
Thu. 17 Jan.	Homework 1: Explore HTTP
Thu. 24 Jan.	Homework 2: Ruby
Thu. 31 Jan.	Homework 3: Rails Tutorial	Complete the tutorial and demo in class
Thu. 7 Feb.	Homework 4: Bug Tracker
Thu. 14 Feb.	Homework 5: CSS
Thu. 21 Feb.	Homework 6: Javascript
Thu. 21 Feb.	Project : Project Description	One page description due
Thu. 28 Feb.	Homework : Midterm Review	(Not due for credit. Watch for updates.)
Thu. 14 Mar.	Homework 7: Bootstrap
Thu. 21 Mar.	Homework 8: AJAX	(1) Add XML and JSON to your bugs Rails app (2) write a simple web page with an AJAX call to consume the data from an API call.
Thu. 28 Mar.	Homework 9: React part 1	Write a simple React front-end for your Bugs app
Thu. 25 Apr.	Project : Semester Project

Text:

The official textbook for this class is

• RESTful Web APIs: Services for a Changing World. by Richardson, Amundsen & Ruby. ISBN: 1449358063

This text is optional:

• Agile Web Development Development with Rails 5.1 by Ruby, Copeland and Thomas. ISBN: 1680502514

Reference:

• Joel Ross's online textbook Client-Side Web Development
• Michael Mendez's online textbook The Missing Link: An Introduction to Web Development and Programming (This book has a heavy focus on PHP.)
• HTML Tutorial
• CSS Tutorial
• Flexbox
• Setting up Rails
• React
  Nine things to know about JSX Practice / Explore JSX using Babel.
• Demos

  Getting Started with Rails	(script)	(video)
  CRUD Models and Heroku	(script)	(video)
  Testing and Validation	(script)	(video)
  Associating tables	(script)	(video)
  BootStrap	(script)	(video)
  API and AJAX	(script)
  Creating a Simple React App	(script)	(video)
  Integrating React with an API	(script)	(video)

• Sample Code
  • JavaScript

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Updated Friday, 12 April 2019, 1:18 PM