Resources marked with a 🚩 have been created by campus experts

Contents

• Learn
  • Git
  • Markdown
• Workshops
  • Tips
  • Teaching
  • Slide Resources
• Writing
  • Tools
  • Content Guides
• Open Source
  • Find projects
• Community
  • Management

Learn

Resources for learning or teaching languages, techniques, skills etc.

Git

• tryGit - A 15 minute introduction to git in the terminal.
• Learn Git Branching - Interactive lesson which visualises branches and commits
• GitHub Flow - Guide that explains how and why GitHub Flow work
• On Demand Training - On demand training material for various Git and GitHub tools such a command line and GitHub Pages
• GitHub training resources - Extensive collection of battle tested resources from documentation to training slides and cheat sheets
• 🚩 Lionex/github-workshop - Originally created for HackFSU '17, this workshop hopes to introduce new hackers to the basics of using git with GitHub.

Markdown

• Mastering Markdown - GitHub guide to mastering GitHub flavoured markdown

Workshops

Resources for running workshops and workshops that other campus experts have run themselves or that may be useful to others.

Tips

• Speaking.io - a cool website with some good tips on giving talks, focused on tech talks mostly
• The Art of Slide Design - Melinda Seckington, talk on the fundamentals of good slide design for pleasant and effective transfer of information.

Teaching

• github/training-utils - A series of Bash and ZShell scripts useful when teaching about git and GitHub (+ bonus list of useful apps)
• codesandbox - Online web application editor (react, vue), useful when running a react/vue or other framework type workshop.
• Glitch - Online HTML/JS/CSS editor and viewer, very useful when doing HTMl / web based workshops. Also hosts the static site at project-name.glitch.me. Bonus, runs node.js so it can also be used to run an api workshop if the backend is written in node.js.

Slide Resources

• FsReveal - FsReveal allows you to write beautiful slides in Markdown and brings F# to the reveal.js web presentation framework.
• Remark - A simple, in-browser, markdown-driven slideshow tool targeted at people who know their way around HTML and CSS.
• reveal-md - Write reveal.js slides as a single markdown file, and use markdown's html fallback to add more complicated markup and set reveal-specific configuration (like fragments).

Writing

Resources for writing and maintaining technical documentation

Visualisation

• Apiary - Powerful API Design Stack. Built for Developers.
• Swagger - Swagger is a powerful open source framework backed by a large ecosystem of tools that helps design, build, document, and consume RESTful APIs.

Tools

• nanoc - Nanoc is a static-site generator, fit for building anything from a small personal blog to a large corporate website. (used by GitHub on their own docs)
• Sphinx - Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, originally created for the Python documentation.
• Daux - Daux is an documentation generator that uses a simple folder structure and Markdown files to create custom documentation on the fly.
• 🚩 mdpdf - mdpdf is a tool for generating stylable pdfs from markdown.

Content Guides

Communication and writing style

• MailChimp - The style guide was created for MailChimp employees
• 18f - How to plan, write, and manage content at 18F.
• Digital Ocean - DigitalOcean's Writing Guidelines
• SendGrid - How To Write Technical Blog Posts

Open Source

Find Projects

• Up For Grabs - List of projects which have curated tasks specifically for new contributors.
• issuehub.io - Contribute to Open Source. Search issue labels to find the right project for you!
• FIRST TIMERS ONLY - Friendly Open Source projects should reserve specific issues for newbies.
• Your First PR - Your First PR helps you get started contributing to Open Source by showcasing great starter issues on GitHub and elsewhere.
• Awesome First PR Opportunities - A list of awesome beginners-friendly projects.
• Codetriange - Help out your favorite open source projects and become a better developer while doing it.
• Pull Request Roulette - Pull requests (or PRs) submitted for review
• 24 Pull Requests - Contribute to projects for 24 days leading up to christmas
• WebCompat - Bug reporting for the internet

Community

Management

• Curriculum for the Atom Community Manager Apprenticeship project

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

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