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** What are your main technical strengths, which technologies do you know well and enjoy? | ** What are your main technical strengths, which technologies do you know well and enjoy? | ||
** Which (new) technologies are you excited to learn and try? | ** Which (new) technologies are you excited to learn and try? | ||
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** Do you have any hesitation, fears, or anxieties about working in open source projects? | ** Do you have any hesitation, fears, or anxieties about working in open source projects? | ||
Revision as of 14:57, 9 January 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
