suggested-study.md

Suggested Study

Some study links that can help you through the Precourse Assignments. Can't find what you're looking for? Head over to the Study Book for a whole lot more!

Super detailed info with screenshots about setting up Linux within VirtualBox, git & GitHub SSH setup, repos, basic HTML/CSS/JS from the wonderful the Odin Project.

How to Use Operating Systems

• What is an operating system?
  • Windows Users
    • Windows 10 for Beginners Tutorial
    • Windows 11 for Beginners Tutorial
  • Ubuntu Users
    • Linux Essentials - Beginner Crash Course (Ubuntu)
  • keyboard layouts and training
    • QWERTY
    • AZERTY

Being a Developer

• Be reasonable with yourself - Programming takes work, then more work, followed by a lot of practice.
• What is programming?
• Be bad at something, it's good for you.
• Study smarter, not harder!
• Tips to the beginner developer.
• What do programmers do?
• Key to being a developer
• Top 8 Developer Habits
• How to be a great software developer- long, but worth every word.
• comparing yourself to others
• Write Code Every Day
• Weekly Review Day

What is the Internet?

• Foundations of the Web
• The Odin Project's intro
• Time-Lapse Maps of the Internet
• internet for webdevs (and there's a part two)
• What happens when you google something? article, video

Visual Studio Code

• Full Tutorials
  • Getting started with Visual Studio Code
  • Learn Visual Studio Code
  • Visual Studio Code Crash Course
  • VSCode Tutorial For Beginners
• Writing Markdown in VSCode
  • Markdown Crash Course
  • Introduction to Markdown in Visual Studio Code

Git and GitHub

Git and GitHub are how you will do everything while at HackYourFuture. Homework submission, Sunday classes, projects, collaboration, coach feedback, everything! The more time you spend studying Git and GitHub before the classes starts, the easier it will be to focus on the fun stuff.

• Git and GitHub for Poets
• Learn to visualize what happens inside of Git with learngitbranching
  • A Video Guide
• ohmygit - a git game
• Git and GitHub for Beginners - Crash Course
• Getting Started with GitHub
• Create and clone a new repository on GitHub
• How to git push an existing project to GitHub
• and much more at hackyourfuture.github.io/study

Slack

• Slack tutorials
• How to Use Slack on Mobile
• 25 Time-Saving Slack Integrations You Should Check Out
• Slack: How to Create or Join a Channel
• How To Leave a Channel in Slack
• How To Be Always Online On Slack
• How To Enable Notifications in Slack
• How To Reply To a Specific Message in a Thread in Slack
• How To Set Reminder in Slack

Discord

• How to format text and paste in code blocks on Discord
• Instructions

Terminal

• Excellent blog post about the Terminal & NPM & small tricks
• How to use the terminal