RustBridge@Rustfest: Introduction Session (10 minutes)

[milibopp]

RustBridge

• Give people access to technology -- predominantly to goups under-represented in IT.
• Positive first contact hands-on experience
• Coaches...they are here to support you!
• This is a first test run of RustBridge. Thank you for being a part of this! We appreciate your feedback.

Code of Conduct

• Open to everyone!
• Supportive!
• If you are unsure about anything, do not hesitate to ask!
• Try to help your co-learners!

What to learn?

• Make a first contact with an amazing technology!
• Programming:
  • Telling a machine (a piece of silicium and metal ...) what to do.
  • This will be small steps, at first.
• Predefined Examples that you can build your experience ontop!

Learning Materials

For different levels of prior experience

• InstallFest: Get your machine ready for coding
• Mondrian Pattern Generator: abstract painting and parallel computing
• URL shortener: how to design and build a Rust project
• Text adventure: make a text-based adventure game

[milibopp]

cc @broesamle @johannhof

[milibopp]

Anybody started doing this? If not, I will do so tomorrow.

[johannhof]

Since I'm super busy with RustFest it'd be great if you could start, I'd be happy to give feedback or help decide if you're unsure about anything.

[broesamle]

when we are done with the toplevel comment we could actually integrate it as intro on the workshop toplevel page . . .
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rust-community/rustbridge/master/workshops.md