Week 1: Rails Passion Course - 1.1

1. My very first blog for the Rails Passion Course. Here is the TOC (found in notebook bineder under TOC section): http://www.javapassion.com/rubyonrails/
2. Already registered on Google Group. Also created this blog.
   
3. Read the FAQ (0). Due Date is 2 weeks after end of course.
4. Starting to (1) do Week One Lessons under step 1 ("Ruby Basics").
5. Watching (1a1) PDF 1 ("Basic Ruby"). "irb --simple-prompt" (slide 13) (ALL 99 slides; printed out about half of the slides)
   
6. (1a2) OpenOffice file - Unclear what to do with this. Assume duplicate of "PDF_1"
7. Pre-Lab/Homework Feedback:
   1. The main TOC and the following contents are not in the same order. Some
   things are missing.
   2. Where do you talk about Number and Array on slide 23 of PDF_1.
   3. Slide 76 - 2nd bullet ends with "and" - unclear if we are missing something.
8. Skipped over the Lab/Homework to reference section. Went to end [(1c5) Forums] and subscribed to Nabble. Remember to check them for Netbeans questions and answers.
1. Postings
2. Subscription/Unsubscription
9. Going backward: (1c4) Regular Expression - two references (wikipedia and ruby-doc.org)
   
1. Posix Basic Regular Expression from wikipedia.com
   
2. Ruby regular expression tutorial from www.ruby-doc.org
   
10. Continuing backward:(1c3) Presentations (2 of them)
    
1. Ruby Presentations from ruby-doc.org
1. Ruby course by Brian Schröeder's immersive Ruby programming course
2. 10 Things Every Java Programmer Should know About Ruby by Jim Weirich
   
2. Get to the point presentation by Ryan Platte and John Long
11. Continuing backward: (1c2) Ruby Websites (3 of them)
    
1. Ruby Development Center from developers.sun.com/ruby/
   
2. Ruby-doc.org
   
1. This is where you find tons of info. on Ruby.
   
3. Ruby from ruby-lang.org
12. Continuing backward: (1c1) Basic Ruby Tutorials (7 of them)
    
    • Programming Ruby book from ruby-doc.org
      
    • Very comprehensive Ruby tutorial - use this site for your Ruby language reference
      
    • rubylearning.com (probably need to start with rubylearning.org)
      
    • Another excellent tutorial resource on Ruby programming
      
    • Ruby Programming from wikibooks.org
      
    • About Ruby from ruby-lang.org
    • Brief description on Ruby's language features
      
    • Try Ruby interactive tutorial
    • Ruby Basic Tutorial from troubleshooters.com
    • Understanding Ruby Symbols article from glu.ttono.us
13. I will do the Lab/Homework in a separate blog post.