dashr/coders

Getting started on startup engineering

Learning guide to essential Digital Tools for Community Organizing (DRAFT)

This is done via

• guided self-learning
• hands-on projects
• technical coaching
• developer community immersion

Platforms

• Macs
• Windows

Editors

• Atom

Universal Project tools

• Trello free web-based project management application
• Dropbox file hosting service
• GitHub web-based hosting service for projects, for GIT private projects
• Slack request to join the #coder slack channel from an admin

Universal Web Development tools

• Nodejs javascript server-side
• NPM package manager for JavaScript

Coding Stacks

• Web Fundamentals
• JavaScript
  • Angular
  • React
  • Vue
• PHP
• Python

Getting Started

• Set up your platform
• Install/join all Project tools
• Start with Web Fundamentals, everyone needs to understand Web basics

Learning Overview

• Inverted learnign curriculum/Lesson Plan-ish style
• outcomes checklist

Project Based Sprints

• Sprint 1

MVP Tools for running your own experiments

• Web

Developer Community

Find an appropriate community near you

• meetup.com

How to ask for code peer review

• Create your repos inside of the devlabs team on bitbucket or github so everyone has read access
• Request someone who knows your stack to review your commits and provide feedback

How to ask for support

• Create an branch in your repo
  • be as detailed with your issue as possible (steps taken, approaches tried)
• Create an Issue and request someone who knows your stack

How to provide support

• Comment on the branch
• Can also create a branch and scaffold the code a bit
• Provide Links to online tutorials, documentation, that is more thorough for deeper investigation