Sledgehammer Academy

Tech & Leadership Skills for the Digital Artisans of Tomorrrow

A Week on Rails

Learn to build web applications with Ruby on Rails, the framework that powers (among many other things) GitHub, AirBnB, & Shopify!

Rails has long been the development framework of choice for one-person startups for a good reason - it's a one-stop shop that prioritizes developer happiness & makes it simple to turn your ideas into working software. Despite the fact that it's not quite as trendy as it was 20 years ago when it was released & changed the game for web developers everywhere, it's still a great choice for building software, with a mature & super helpful community behind it to support you.

This is a one-week intensive course to make sure you're up to speed with some of the fundamentals and introduce you to the basics of Ruby on Rails by following the classic "build a blog from scratch in 15 minutes" lesson as well as making a lightweight Reddit clone.

Format

  • One week of daily 2 hour class sessions

Prerequisistes

  • Intended for students 12 & up
  • Students need some previous text-based programming experience - ideally with Ruby, but you can get up to speed fairly quickly if you already know a little Python / Java / etc
    • Students should be familiar with the core ideas of object-oriented programming - classes and instance variables and inheritance and that kind of stuff.
    • Students should also be comfortable working with arrays and other common data structures.
    • Not sure if you're ready for this? Let's connect and I'll help you figure that out.
  • Students also need some previous experience working with HTML & CSS, and ideally the Boostrap UI framework
  • Students will need a Windows, Mac, or Linux laptop to work off of

Cost

TBD

Scholarship funds are available - reach out for more information

Schedule

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