Telemetry Reading List

Broadly speaking, projects under telemetry will concern themselves with networking (TCP, UDP), preparing data to be read and sent over a network, and GUI (graphical user interface) design.

These resources should make you failiar with React, Java and C++, which are the main technologies used at the moment.

React

• Go through the official React tutorial and have a working version of the tic tac game.
• Read React Hooks documentation and familiarise yourself with it, as this is the main way we use React in HYPED.
• Have a look at the code base.

Java Spring

• If you don't already have experience with Java, try to find a suitable tutorial on Youtube, learn the basics and practise until you are comfortable using it.
• Read about websockets, as this is how GUI communicates with the backed (base-station).
• Read about using WebSocket, as it will almost fully cover our use case of the Java Spring framework.
• Have a look at the code base.

Networking

• Networking requires some knowledge of C++, which you should acquire from workshops that will be organised for the entire Software Team.
• Watch these videos on networking.
  • Excellent introduction to how networking works all the way from voltages over a wire to the basics of TCP
  • Quite a few videos, we suggest watching one or two a day.
• Read this page about TCP and UDP.
  • Read the first few paragraphs about TCP (the part that gives the general overview of TCP, stop before TCP Header Structure).
  • Read the first few paragraphs about UDP (stop before UDP Header Structure).
• Read this page (until "Jumping from IPv4 to IPv6") about sockets and IP adresses in C++ and more networking stuff.
• Have a look at the C++ part of the code base.