1. WHAT I WISH I KNEW
BEFORE I STARTED CODING
with Mattan Griffel, CEO of One Month

2. Coding Languages
are HUGE
Ruby

3. Coding Languages
are HUGE
Ruby
And you only need to
know a tiny bit of them

4. Many experienced developers
only barely scratch the surface

5. Many experienced developers
only barely scratch the surface
(AtypicaldevelopersearchesGoogle
onceforevery10linesofcodetheywrite)

6. 50% of developers are self-taught

7. Did you know there are 1,025,109.8
words in the English language?

8. …yet the average adult knows
only 20,000-35,000?

9. C, Java, C++, PHP, JavaScript,
Python, C#, Perl, SQL, Ruby, Shell,
Visual Basic, Assembly, Actionscript,
Where do you start? Delphi, Pascal,
Scheme, Haskell, Tcl, Backbone,
Fortran, Ada, Lua, ColdFusion,
Cobol, Erlang, D, Scala, Smalltalk,
Ocaml, Forth, Rexx, Hadoop,
Node.js, Lisp, Objective C, Swift

10. Web applications are applications
that you access over the internet

11. Every application has a
front-end and a back-end

12. The front-end is what you see
Front-end languages:
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript

13. The back-end is what you don’t see
Database
Rules
Web Pages

14. The back-end is what you don’t see
Programming languages:
PHP, Ruby, Python, Java
Database languages:
SQL
Database
Rules
Web Pages

15. They’re all the same, just different
PHP Python Ruby

16. echo “Hello World”; print(‘Hello World’) puts “Hello World”
PHP Python Ruby

17. PHP Python Ruby
Hello World Hello World Hello World
echo “Hello World”; print(‘Hello World’) puts “Hello World”

18. Programminglanguagesarejust
languagesforhumanstotalkto
computers

19. Languagesstartedoffbeingvery
computer-friendlybutnotvery
human-friendly

20. ExampleinBinary:
Print “Winter is coming.”
00000000 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.ELF............|
00000010 02 00 03 00 01 00 00 00 80 80 04 08 34 00 00 00 |............4...|
00000020 c8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 34 00 20 00 02 00 28 00 |........4. ...(.|
00000030 04 00 03 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 04 08 |................|
00000040 00 80 04 08 9d 00 00 00 9d 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 |................|
00000050 00 10 00 00 01 00 00 00 a0 00 00 00 a0 90 04 08 |................|
00000060 a0 90 04 08 0e 00 00 00 0e 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 |................|
00000070 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000080 ba 0e 00 00 00 b9 a0 90 04 08 bb 01 00 00 00 b8 |................|
00000090 04 00 00 00 cd 80 b8 01 00 00 00 cd 80 00 00 00 |................|
000000a0 48 65 6c 6c 6f 2c 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 21 0a 00 2e |Winter is coming|
000000b0 73 68 73 74 72 74 61 62 00 2e 74 65 78 74 00 2e |.shstrtab..text.|
000000c0 64 61 74 61 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.data...........|
000000d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
000000f0 0b 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 80 80 04 08 |................|
00000100 80 00 00 00 1d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000110 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 |................|
00000120 03 00 00 00 a0 90 04 08 a0 00 00 00 0e 00 00 00 |................|
00000130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000140 01 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000150 ae 00 00 00 17 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000160 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |……..|

21. ExampleinAssembly:
Print “Winter is coming.”
section .text
global _start
_start:
mov edx,len
mov ecx,msg
mov ebx,1
mov eax,4
int 0x80
mov eax,1
int 0x80
section .data
msg db ‘Winter is coming.',0xa
len equ $ - msg

22. ExampleinJava:
Print “Winter is coming.”
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(“Winter is coming.");
}
}

23. ExampleinRuby:
Print “Winter is coming.”
puts “Winter is coming.”

24. Now there are web application
frameworks
Database
Rules
Web Pages

25. Now there are web application
frameworks
Web application frameworks: Wordpress, Ruby on Rails, Django
Database
Rules
Web Pages

26. Web application frameworks
“alleviate overhead associated with web development by
providing libraries for database access, templating
frameworks, and session management.”
help you build web apps
really quickly

28. ~75% of coding is Googling

29. Stack Overflow

30. + ask someone

31. Everyone will tell you
something different

32. Coding in a nutshell

33. INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE CAN BE HARD

34. This is your command center
Command Line Text Editor
Browser

35. The text editor
is where you
write your code
Sublime Text

36. The command
line is where you
run your code
Terminal

37. The browser is
where you see
the result
Google Chrome

38. GITHUB IS WHERE YOU SAVE VERSIONS OF
YOUR PROJECT FILES

39. HEROKU LETS YOU DEPLOY YOUR APP SO
THAT IT’S LIVE IN SECONDS

40. AND YOUR TODOS ARE IN A TASK
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM LIKE PIVOTAL TRACKER

41. WEB DEVELOPMENT
RESOURCES

42. HACKER NEWS IS A GREAT WAY TO
EXPOSE YOURSELF TO NEW IDEAS

43. CHECK OUT HOW TO
TEACH YOURSELF TO CODE
ON YOUTUBE

44. UPCOMING CLASSES
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48. INTRO TO
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APIS WITH
RUBY
WEB
SCRAPING
WEB APPS
One Month Class Structure:
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
•How do you set up
your computer to
code?
•How do you write
and run Ruby code?
•What are variables,
functions, arrays,
etc.?
•How do you connect
to an API?
•What data can you
get from an API?
•What can you do
with that data with
Ruby?
•How do you scrape
from websites like
Google and Amazon?
•How can you get
your scripts to run
automatically?
•How does web
application
development work?
•How can I get my
code live on the
internet?

49. SO IF YOU’RE
STRUGGLING OR
FRUSTRATED
(Or you just want to learn something
new for the next four weeks)

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