Experiential Learning in module order

This page collects together all of the “experiences” associated with individual modules.

In this site, experiences represent “active” learning opportunities, as opposed to readings, which represent “passive” learning opportunities.

Module: Be Social

Create a GitHub Account

Paste the URL to your profile page into Laulima for sweet sweet points

10 min 1 pt closed

Create a Blog

Express yourself ppl

15 min 1 pt closed

Describe Your Dev Environment

Nobody will make fun of you

1 hr 1 pt closed

Module: Clone

Clone and Run Some Code

Use git and GitHub to download and run code

15 min 1 pt closed

Blog About Data Sharing

Sharing about sharing

1 hr 2 pts closed

Module: Tweak

Try Vim Online

Experiment with Vim in a nice, comfortable sandbox

30-45 min 1 pt closed

Try Vim Locally

Experiment with Vim on your own machine

30-45 min 1 pt closed

Module: Commit

Blog about your expectations for the class

What do you want from me?

1 hr 1 pt closed

Fork/Clone/Modify/Add/Commit/Push

No turning back now

1 hr 1 pt closed

Try git Online

Brought to you by the lovely people at CodeSchool

15 min 1 pt closed

Module: Confer

Show up to your conference

10 min 1 pt closed

Module: Fix

Fix a TypeError

Fork/Clone/Fix/Add/Commit/Push for a Point

30 min 1 pt closed

Fix Some Syntax Errors

Fork/Clone/Fix/Add/Commit/Push for a Point

1 hr 1 pt closed

Module: Reach Out

Blog About a Mentor's Coding Habits and Advice

2-3 hrs 4 points due Nov 30

Module: Break

Write code that breaks

Fork/clone a repo full of errors, then make the errors your own

1-2 pts 1-3 hours closed

Module: Show_Off

Get a pretty prompt

Modify the appropriate file to change your terminal prompt from a boring gray wasteland to a colorful magical castle

1 hr 1 pt closed

Make a command line vine

Upload a short video/vine/animated gif of your terminal in action

hours and hours 1-3 points closed

Module: Type

Type code for 2 hours

Work those fingers

2 hrs 1-6 pts due Oct 30

Module: Hone

Play 9 holes of Vim Golf

Create an account, install the CLI program, compete in at least 9 challenges plus submit one of your own. Not to be done overnight.

10 hours 10 points due Nov 27

Complete learnGitBranching and share

Read through and finish ALL lessons on the site – ‘Main’ and ‘Remote’. Then come up with two plausible examples, each demonstrating one of the lessons you covered.

8 hours 8 points due Nov 20

Project Euler

Solve math-y problems in the company of other smart people. Get points for code reviews

?? hours 8 points due Nov 13

Module: Refactor

Implement argparse in throw_err.py

Clean up my mess

1-2 hrs 1 pt closed

Refactor code using PEP 8, the Python style guide

WHOEVER WROTE THIS PROGRAM WAS SCREAMING

1-3 hrs 3 pts closed

Module: Measure

Take a quiz

Points for completion and reflection, not performance

2 pts 2 hrs closed

Module: Collaborate

Work with a partner to improve some lousy code

Fork and clone a repository, add a Collaborator, take turns editing the code, profit

3 hrs 3 points closed

Work with another partner to improve some lousy code

Fork and clone a repository, add a Collaborator, take turns editing the code, profit

2 hrs 2 points closed

Work with yet another partner to improve some lousy code

Fork and clone a repository, add a Collaborator, take turns editing the code, profit

1 hrs 1 point closed

Module: Build

Create your own toy Python package

Follow a tutorial, write a tiny bit of code

1 pt 30 minutes closed

Module: Test

Re-create a repository, complete with unit tests

More points for typing

40 min 2 pts closed