engineering logs: Ask Alice

[pdxjohnny]

Ask Alice: Go through pull requests, chats, mailing list, issues and answer. You directly answer their questions. Can use video QA model and combine to capture misses to not found answers and add those to the queue for videos to do.

5-10 minute recordings of quick overviews of how to do X.

[pdxjohnny]

• How do I learn the basics of Alice? Alice 101.
  • Here’s what were doing and heres what we’re working on right now.
  • Help folks hone in on what previous familiar skills they’ll be using when working on Alice.
• What is Open Source?
• What is an Entity?
• Take a minute to go over some technologies used, dep, pattern.
• This is when this is applicable and this is that?
• What is programming?
• What is a robot?
• What is the difference between software languages and why would you use one over the other?
• What is HTTPS?
• What is CORS?
• Why would you use c vs. python?
  • low level
  • Dependencies
• How to code
  • Coding 101
  • 30 min: intro to coding, intro to python, intro to context managers
• Generic notes
  • Focus is on quick 5 minute logs entries. Small one topic 101 things 20-30.
  • please watch XYZ and then we can talk about ABC.
  • Explain simply
  • Tag videos to see which hit which topics
  • could do one question per video or 5 questions for log entry, ideally keep them each separately