Module: Be Social

This is the first module, in which you’ll set up online accounts for hosting code and blog posts. Click on “Reading” for info and “Experiential Learning” for submission instructions.

Learning Outcomes

GitHub Account

Students will have public GitHub accounts.

Blog

Students will have a publicly-accessible blog.

Describe Development Environment

Students will analyze and report on their personal development environment.

Readings

GitHub Student Developer Pack

Read about optional (free) stuff that comes with your required (free) account

Which Blogging Service is Right For Me?

Deep research into blogging options

Slides

What Tools Do Real Scientists Use?

Evidence (sample size=1) that scientists use and hire users of the tools we are learning

Setting Up Your Development Environment

A minimalist guide to setting up your development environment for this class

WTF is the Command Line?

For true noobs

Experiential Learning

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

Assessments

Be Social - Results

Here is a sweet wordcloud representing our feelings about Laulima.