Computers can be programmed to perform tasks through programming languages like Ruby, which was created in 1995. The Web runs on top of the Internet using standards such as HTTP, HTML, and CSS, and was invented in 1990. Ruby on Rails (Rails) is a web application framework built with Ruby, released in 2004, that allows using Ruby to create dynamic web applications.

1. Programming & The Web &
Programming the Web
Vesa Vänskä, Kisko Labs

2. Computers are machines that
can be told what to do.

3. Programming is telling them
what you want them to do.

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languages

5. Ruby
• Programming language
• Started in 1995 by Yukihiro Matsumoto
• Really nice!

6. What does this Ruby look
like?

7. The Web

8. The Web
• Running on top of the Internet
• Set of standards like HTTP, URL,
HTML, CSS...
• Invented in 1990 by Sir Tim-Berners
Lee and Robert Cailliau

9. Kinds of web services
Static Website Dynamic Web Application

10. Kinds of web services
Static Website Dynamic Web Application

11. Ruby + The Web = Rails
• Built using Ruby
• Released in 2004
• Started by David Heinemeier
Hansson.

12. Rails is a framework

13. Kinds of web services
Static Website Dynamic Web Application

14. Let’s try it out!