Table of Contents

• Background
• Contributing
• Learning Resources
• Social
• License

Background

A new code repository for the Code for Tucson Website.

Contributing

If you're new to coding, we recommend installing:

• a text editor like VS Code
• Git which is a version control system. This helps people collaborate on projects. If you're new to git, take a look a Github Git tutorial

Feel free to dive in! Open an issue, submit Pull Requests (PRs), or even start your own project!

If you'd like to get your feet wet, take a look at some good first issues.

Brief Tutorial

We recommend newcomers to first read an old guide. However, the developer community recently agreed to rename the master branch to main. As a refresher, to contribute, take the following steps:

• First, clone the repo

git clone <repo_url>

If you are not added yet as a collaborator, you may first need to fork the repo in order to contribute.

• Create a new branch from the main branch (or master, or whatever branch you want to work off of).

git checkout -b <your_new_branch_name>

• Make some code edits in your code editor. Then stage your changes with:

git add <the_file_you_modified>

• Then you need to commit your changes with a message

git commit -m 'A brief summary of your code'

• Push your changes to the remote repo (hosted here on Github):

git push -u origin <your_new_branch_name>

• Finally, on Github, create a Pull Request if you don't have write access to the repository.

Standard Readme follows the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.

Learning Resources

Websites

• Front-end development. Most coders find it easiest to start with front-end development. This is how to code how a website looks and feels like. Languages to start with are
  • HTML, CSS, Javascript: Freecodecamp
  • HTML, CSS, Javascript: W3Schools
  • JamStack - a modern, more sophisticated way of building websites and apps, once you know HTML, CSS, and JS.
• Back-end development. This often involves working with data and logic to do something useful. Some common, beginner-friendly languages are:
  • NodeJS
  • Python
  • PHP
  • C#
  • SQL has different variants like MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc. They all very similar so just pick one.
    • MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • SQL Server
• Mobile development.
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Multi-platform allows you to write apps that work on both Android and Apple devices with one codebase.
    • Flutter
    • ReactNative
    • Nativescript
• Analytics. For machine learning, data analysis, and automation, Python is the way to go.
  • Python
  • Data Analysis
  • Machine Learning
    • Basics
    • Deep Learning
• User Interfaces and User Experience (UI/UX):
  • Figma
  • AdobeXD
• Devops optimizes how people develop code
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Github Actions

Video Resources

• Front-end/Back-end
  • Academind
  • Traversy Media
• Machine Learning
  • Andrew Ng
• Devops
  • Techworld with Nana

Feel free to add resources you'd find helpful, or request new ones be added by creating an issue!

Social

• Meet Us!
  • Meetup
  • Slack

License

MIT