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Resources for DPS909 & OSD600

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?
- Do you have any hesitation, fears, or anxieties about working in open source projects?

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

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 =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?
+** 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
+** [http://brackets.io/ Brackets], originally started by Adobe, now used in [http://www.adobe.com/ca/products/dreamweaver.html Dreamweaver]
+** Seneca created [https://github.com/mozilla/brackets Bramble] based on Brackets, for the web
+** Mozilla used Bramble to create the [https://thimble.mozilla.org/en-US/ Thimble web code editor]
+** Also being integrated into [https://code.org/ Code.org]
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