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Stack and Queues Notes

Add methods for stacks and queues to notes along with a description of what each does.

Also make comprehension questions match those in the AdaGold/stacks-queues comprehension questions

fix the .rails-template.rb gist to include pry in :development and :test

update Dan's gist to be more like:
https://gist.github.com/bennettrahn/0aa23587abff1d25df55f49527d70f7d

Ruby/Intro to Object Types: Hashes do have fixed order

We should remove the comment about hashes not having a fixed order. Since Ruby 1.9 hashes retain their insertion order.

Examples in Intermediate Rails -> Custom Validations can be done w/o custom validations

The custom method one can be validated with inclusion:

class Item < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates :kind, inclusion: { in: %w(Movie Book Album) }
end

Similarly, the one for conditional validations could be achieved with allow_nil and allow_blank:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # If the user provided a username, it must be at least 8 characters
  validates :username, length: { minimum: 8 }, allow_nil: true, allow_blank: true
end

Should CSS Framework lesson mention the Foundation Rails gem?

The documentation for CSS Frameworks in section 5 of the textbook curriculum discusses how Foundation works as a CSS framework.

Because the majority of our projects after StaticSite are going to be Rails projects, should we include a section on how to easily get the Foundation framework into a Rails application?

Zurb has created a gem for just that, with fairly straight forward instructions on how to use it: https://github.com/zurb/foundation-rails .

Backbone Materials - Suggested Long-term Revision

Assuming we stick with Backbone for a cohort or two, I'd like to suggest we revise the materials to separate reference material & Live-Code Material.

Also I'd suggest pulling Underscore Templates out and doing a bit more with them before we get to Backbone, maybe with AJAX.

Example:
02-Backbone-views.md - reference material for Backbone development
02a-Backbone-views-Livecode.md - Walkthrough instructions and code.

Organization of the Rails Folder is a Hot Mess

Something should be done!

JavaScript 02 - Functions needs better example code

Not a priority now - leaving this here for C7.

Would be cool to bring the examples more in line with
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QboS170RoaKq2dVwLgXmUZHhzz8I5Cs1H08w0euvmY8/edit?usp=sharing

One example that's not in the slides: right now we use sorting w/ a comparator as an example of passing a function to a function. Students don't have any context for this. Charles recommends we just implement forEach instead, and I agree.

Installfest - Rectangle perms

I'm pretty sure that you need to run Rectangle before it will let you assign permissions?

& further path info [System Preferences -> Security & Permissions -> Privacy -> Accessibility] might help other folks not have to scroll up and down through the whole list.