Programming & The Web & Programming the Web

Vesa Vänskä, Kisko Labs

Computers are machines that can be told what to do.

Programming is telling them what you want them to do.

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Nicer programming languages

Ruby

• Programming language

• Started in 1995 by Yukihiro Matsumoto

• Really nice!

What does this Ruby look like?

The Web

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

Kinds of web services

Static Website Dynamic Web Application

Kinds of web services

Static Website Dynamic Web Application

Ruby + The Web = Rails

• Built using Ruby

• Released in 2004

• Started by David Heinemeier Hansson.

Rails is a framework

Kinds of web services

Static Website Dynamic Web Application

Let’s try it out!