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I explain the basics of using Sinatra, a Ruby library that's used to make dynamic websites.

We start exploring the very basics of programming, using Ruby. We write our first Ruby program, and I let you know where you can go to learn more!

I cover the very basic of HTML forms, which are used to provide input to your web application.

I cover the very basics of HTML, and we build a tiny web page that you can open up on your own computer with a browser.

I go a bit further in detail about HTTP, and talk about status codes, verbs, and using curl to make requests without a browser.

The first episode of my "Basics of Web Programming" series. I explain HTTP and the request/response cycle.