Having just graduated from college as a Programmer/Analyst, I can certainly say there is no shortage of lazy students. One "peer" would not spend more than five minutes on any problem before attempting to either steal the answer from a classmate or get a tutor to do his own work.
Sorry to "steal" the thread, but had to throw in my $0.02. And I second using railstutorial.org, I'm presently working through the text myself and I like it. On Mar 3, 3:43 pm, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 March 2011 21:34, gezope <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, to be honest being rude with beginners is unnecessary. Maybe he > > has no idea where to start - and a mailing list can be a right place. > > I hope you are not suggesting that asking whether a question is > homework is being rude. It is a perfectly valid question and many > times questions like this are in fact homework. I hope the OP was not > offended by my asking, certainly no offence was intended. > > I accept that you have not quoted me, so it should not be me that you > are referring to, but none of the replies that you have quoted look > rude either. > > Colin > > > > > You can find all HTML standards here:http://www.w3schools.com > > If you don't know where to start the best is try out everything > > yourself and you will find that part which impresses you. > > > Rails is a framework which generates HTML. It communnicates with > > Database so it's definitely not static like HTML itself. CSS if for > > giving some styling and Rails also generates some CSS and enables you > > to modify it as you wish. Later you can include great frameworks too > > and you can avoid boring repetition of same tasks (like HAML, SCSS, > > BluePrint, Compass). > > > Rails can be hard as starting point if you have no idea about HTML, > > CSS, JavaScript. You can pick up everything on the way but it can take > > much more time. Preferably you spend some time with these then you > > restart studying a little bit of Ruby and then continue with Rails. > >www.railstutoial.orgThis guy explains everything what's better to > > know before starting, the first part will be very helpful for you. > > > Best wishes and hope you'll find your way! > > gezope > > > On Mar 2, 5:27 pm, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:04 PM, radhames brito wrote: > > >> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Karthikeyan <[email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> > OK, you put HTML and CSS code into a file and name it something.html , > >> > save it and open in a browser and you see a beautiful web page. > > >> > Continuing with what Karthikeyan said , you will see a static > >> > beautiful page, like a MS word document it will always look the same > >> > as long as you dont edit it. If this was how gmail worked there > >> > would be a html document for each user and each action the user can > >> > do ( hundreds of millions), but that is not the case. Programed on > >> > the server side is not a fixed html document but instead there is > >> > the logic to build one on the fly when someone comes in to check > >> > their email, so , you only create one server side document and this > >> > creates a html document dynamically( on the fly) for each user and > >> > for each action that a user can do, that logic if programed if many > >> > different languages but ruby makes it easy and the rails framework > >> > is the one makes this easiest, and most productive. > > >> +1000 points for a very helpful and kind answer. Thanks for keeping > >> the tone of this list high. > > >> Walter > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
