Project 1: Lift-Off

Note: The last part of this project (setting up your vitual machine) can take a long time to complete! Don't leave that part to last minute. If you encounter difficulties, check the class discussion forum.

GitHub Account

Submission: included as part of CATME survey (see below).

Sign up for an account at GitHub. You can also request an educational student discount, which gives you Pro features for free.

Group Formation

Submission: by completing CATME survey.

You will be assigned to a home group of 4 (or 5) for working on projects. In addition, you will also be assigned to a technology team for working on tasks. This group and team assignment will be done using the CATME tool.

Each technology team will be exploring in greater depth a library or framework in one of the following areas:

HTML/CSS
Javascript
Ruby

Mug Shots

Submission: by email to the instructor.

Send the instructor an email with a jpg attachment containing a picture of yourself. Please make sure the attachment satisfies all of the following requirements:

The picture should be head or head-and-shoulders so that you are easily recognizable.
The subject of the email should include the course number and section (ie lecture time slot) in which you are enrolled
The filename of the jpg attachment should be your last name (all caps) with extension jpg (all lower case). For example, a student named Jane Doe would attach a file called DOE.jpg.
The image should be 150 pixels wide by 180 pixels high. You can use tools such as gimp or gqview to first crop to the right aspect ratio, then resize to the right dimension.

These pictures will not be posted anywhere, they will be used only for my reference to help me learn your name.

Name Pronounciation

Submission: on Carmen page.

Find the "NameCoach" link on our class Carmen page and record your name.

Environment Configuration

Submission: by Carmen.

Follow the instructions from the class web site, under Dev Environment, to create a virtual machine on your home machine. Once you have completed the setup, take a screenshot showing the virtual machine desktop with a terminal window open and running the last "rails" command in the instructions:

$ rails server

The output should begin with "Booting Puma". Submit this screenshot via Carmen.