DPS909 & OSD600 Winter 2017

Resources for DPS909 & OSD600

Week 1

• Course introduction
• Some questions:
  • What was the first video game you ever played?
  • What are your main technical strengths, which technologies do you know well and enjoy?
  • Which (new) technologies are you excited to learn and try?
  • When you hear "open source," what comes to mind?
  • Do you have any hesitation, fears, or anxieties about working in open source projects?

• How to have Success in this course:
  • Willingness to be lost and not panic
  • Willingness to put yourself out there, jump in
  • Curiosity
  • Being driven, persistence
  • Willingness to ask for help
  • Willingness to give others help
  • Independent learning
  • Doing more than the bare minimum

• One example of something we'll work on together: Thimble
  • Brackets, originally started by Adobe, now used in Dreamweaver
  • Seneca created Bramble based on Brackets, for the web
  • Mozilla used Bramble to create the Thimble web code editor
  • Also being integrated into Code.org

• Lab 1

Week 2

• Introducing git
  • Git Walkthrough - Basics

• Readings/Resources
  • Courses on Lynda
    • Git Essential Training
    • Up and Running with Git and GitHub
  • Books
    • Pro Git
    • Version Control by Example, online book
  • References
    • Git Reference
    • Visual Git Reference
    • Overview of Git Tutorials (many good ones)
    • Github documentation

• Lab 2

Week 3

• Working with Git Remotes
  • Git Walkthrough #2 - Working Remote

• Discussion of Project, First Release
  • "good-first-bug" Issues in Mozilla Thimble

• Lab 3