DPS909 & OSD600 Fall 2017
Resources for DPS909 & OSD600
Week 1
- Some questions:
- What brought you to this course?
- When you hear "open source," what comes to mind?
- On a scale from 1 (not at all) to 5 (very)...
- How comfortable are you working with technology you've never seen before?
- How likely are you to stick with a problem when it gets hard to solve?
- How curious are you about how things work?
- How likely are you to ask for help when you get stuck?
- How likely are you to pause your own work in order to help someone else who is stuck?
- How comfortable are you as a writer?
- How self-motivated are you?
- How self-directed are you?
- 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
- Mozilla
- Browsers (Firefox, Servo)
- Languages (JavaScript, C++, Node, Python, Rust, CSS, HTML, ...)
- Tools (Dev Tools, DXR, build systems, automation)
- QA, Automated Tests
- Extensions
- Localization
- Documentation
- Accessibility
- Teaching and Learning (Thimble)
- Web technology
