makandra Curriculum

makandra offers an 8 month paid trainee program 🇩🇪 for junior developers that are looking to start a professional career in...

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Ruby is the programming language we use on the backend. Goals After finishing this lesson you should be able to...

There is no single place to look up documentation for our stack. This card includes some hints where you can...

makandra is responsible for maintaining about 75 Ruby projects. These projects use a large number of different versions for Ruby...

Rails is our web framework. Goals Be able to write a simple Rails application. Understand how Rails talks to the...

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Understand why we test: Low defect rate without a QA department. Customer acceptance testing can concentrate on new features...

Learn to create test data effectively using factories. Decouple tests by having each test start with an empty database...

JavaScript is a scripting language supported by all browsers. Browsers don't speak Ruby, so if we want to implement...

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Learn to read and write Haml. Understand the different attributes syntaxes (curly braces vs. round parentheses) Exercises Convert MovieDB...

In this card we will learn to write code that scales with a large number of database records. We will...

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Understand what Memoization is and when it can be useful. Understand the @variable ||= computation pattern. Learn how to use...

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When your code does not behave as expected, you can use a debugger statement ("breakpoint") at any point in your...

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Learn Enough Command Line to be Dangerous (it's in our library => Google Drive) CLI tricks every developer should...

Web security basics Einführung in die Web Security 🇩🇪 provides essentials for the topic of this card. Read following chapters:

Resources RubyGuides: Mastering Ruby Regular Expressions Using regular expressions in JavaScript Testing regular expressions visually Regular Expressions: Quantifier modes...

While working on a Rails application, your code base will grow a collection of different file types including: Ruby (business...

The asset pipeline is one of Rails' two mechanisms how stylesheets, javascripts and images from your /assets folder are processed...

Understand how asynchronous JavaScript works: Read Henning's presentation about asynchronous Javascript (there's also a German video presentation...

Just like we use gems on the server, we use third party JavaScript libraries in the browser. These typically provide...

In a web application you often need to move data between the client (HTML, Javascript) and the server (Ruby, Rails...

Rubymonk training Read the following Rubymonk articles: Ruby Primer: Ascent (archived copy) Metaprogramming Ruby (archived copy) Metaprogramming Ruby: Ascent (archived...

Method lookup Understand all the terms in How Ruby method lookup works, in particular: include extend singleton class

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Your MovieDB gained traction and is now a popular tool among cineasts. This comes with a downside: You noticed a...

Exercise 1: XML On the start page of your Movie DB, show the title of a random movie that is...