PBL Unit 1 / Week 0

Learning outcome. Installing Tools and showing usage of VSCode.

  • Wednesday - Pick pair share partner, Pick crossover pair, Establish team of four. Spend some time talking and getting to know each other, particularly with Computer Science experience and goals. You should be matched with someone that has similar experience.
  • Thursday - Setup Tools on laptop and/or Cloud Computer.
  • Friday - Review and test as a Pair. Spend 25 minutes at one keyboard then switch for next 25 minutes.

Hack Prepartation

Look for ‘Hacks’ to know what to do next. Try to be done and learn your machine before Monday EOD.

  • A laptop, that you bring to class every day with ability to operate Development Tools on it or within the Cloud.
  • GitHub Account, VSCode will be used to push/pull changes. GitHub is where we store and share code in the cloud, think of Google Docs but for Code.
  • GitHub Pages will be used to host your personal blog: containing notes, answering hacks, and showing tangibles. Building pages will teach Markdown, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more.
  • Jupyter Notebooks will be used in conjunction with GitHub Pages to build running Code in your blog.
  • Slack Account, install the App on Laptop and/or phone, get used to reading announcements. Slack is the tool that we will use for messaging, we have been averaging 1000s of essages each year.
  • VSCode is the code editor we will be using in this class. VSCode is more than and editor, this type of tool is often called an Interactive Development Environment (IDE).
  • Run make commands to build and test blog locally, before pushing changes to GitHub pages.