Action Items

Notes

• If we walk them through the lab we should be wary about things they haven't done themselves.
• Peer instruction plus random sanity checks in class!
• How to teach models?
  • Comparisons between classes from 61a!
  • Talk about tables?
  • Define some terms: Model vs. Record:
    • The model class doesn't have fields. only the schema has fields.
    • Model extends the record, which has all the fields. Model can have added functionality to compute new thoughts
      • Let's say you were facebook and rating your user based on some sort of parameter. Instead of constantly calculating new score values and putting them into the record, it should live in the model as custom data!
      • We should find the best way to explain it.
    • Should be able to relate table access to SQL knowledge.