Students - Engineering Software as a Service: An Agile Approach Using Cloud Computing

Students

Instructions on setting up software for the textbook and MOOC

Additional free resources online to help you with the course

	Basic/Beginner Tutorials	Beginner to Intermediate Tutorials	Intermediate to Advanced Tutorials	Reference/cheatsheets
Ruby	tryruby.org codecademy.com	rubymonk.com code school ruby-bits (starts free - later paid) codewars Ruby kata	rubykoans.com	Ruby Style Guide Ruby cheat sheet
Rails	Michael Hartl Tutorial Bundler best practices Rails for Zombies (intro free)	Migrations cheat sheet Rails form helpers cheat sheet
HTML, CSS, etc.	CSS Diner: learn CSS interactively in this whimsical environment codecademy.com HTML+CSS track CodeAvengers HTML/CSS tutorial Mozilla Thimble is a full cloud-based HTML+CSS interactive authoring environment.	Once you know the basics of HTML and CSS: BootstrapCSS tutorial. Bootstrap is the fastest way to get a non-ugly look and feel. We recommend installing the Sass version, which plays nicely with Rails’ asset pipeline.	html5rocks.com	Mozilla Developer Network: HTML5 Document Object Model (DOM) cheat sheet CSS cheat sheet
Git, GitHub	try.github.com GitHubGuides The git-it interactive tutorial (preinstalled in bookware VM)	GitImmersion Understanding Git Conceptually Udacity Git Course	Git for Computer Scientists Git Magic (advanced)	Installing Git Pushing and Pulling An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows Pro Git book
JavaScript	http://hsablonniere.github.io/ markleft/prezas/javascript-101.html#1.0 https://www.codecademy.com/ tracks/javascript http://freecodecamp.com/	JavaScript, DOM event handlers https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
Relational Databases	http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ sql/index.htm https://www.gitbook.com/book/ hgducharme/sql-basics/details https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/ DB/RDB/SelfPaced/about https://www.sqlteaching.com/	https://lagunita.stanford.edu/ courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/about	SQLite3 command line cheat sheet
RSpec	http://rspec.info/ RSpec cheat sheet
Cucumber	http://cukes.info/
Bundler	http://bundler.io/

Free Screencasts

Railscasts - focuses on Rails-specific development issues
RailsLab - focuses on Rails-specific operations/dev-ops issues
BDDcasts specializes in BDD & Cucumber TeachMeToCode

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