20 -- Javascript, or maybe Yavascript -- Andell Jean-Jacques

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Task

• Start by reading this good, brief(ish) overview of the language (skip the last section, on memory leaks).
• Take that introduction, and what you know about Ruby, and make a new Rails app to compare the languages
• The new app should have two resources, similarities and differences. Each similarity (or difference) should have two attributes: title and text
• Each resource should have a page listing the titles of every item in the category, and the title should link to a page that has the title and text.
• The list page should also have a link to create a new similarity (or difference), and the detail page for each similarity (or difference) should have a link to edit and a button to delete it
• Create as many entries as you can for the similarities and differences between the two languages.
• Read over the Document Object Model, and type out pages for the first three examples of using Javascript on a web page
• Since those pages don't have any Ruby in them, they can go in the public/ folder of your new app
• Great intro book for js and programming in general http://eloquentjavascript.net/index.html I'd ask you to read it, but it's nearly 500 pages long. Worth reading

Bonus Thing To Do

• I just pushed this morning's work to a new repository at http://github.com/TheIronYard--Orlando/rails_todo_mvc.git, and realized that we didn't get the "Mark all complete" button to work yet. So, that's something you could do.
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