Hack4Reno Workbook

[colinloretz]

Trinity AI is sponsoring Hack4Reno and pitching in to help.

They want to help organize the event day of and are interested in doing a workbook. We might need a few people to write tutorials for the workbook.

I'm thinking if we do a few basic ones:

• First heroku app, perhaps a beginning Sinatra app? (Heroku may even be a sponsor)
• Tropo app (tropo is a sponsor)

Other ideas?

• Simplegeo app
• Simple Twitter client

[colinloretz]

Keith, here are a few examples of the Salesforce.com workbooks. They are pretty extensive but I think just having a couple tutorials would be wonderful!

http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Force.com_workbook

[kumogire]

What subjects are you planning on doing video tutorials for?

Thank you

-keith

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Colin Loretz <
reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

Keith, here are a few examples of the Salesforce.com workbooks. They are
pretty extensive but I think just having a couple tutorials would be
wonderful!

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[colinloretz]

Good question, I think it will be ok if they cross over, it might even be good to do both so we can include a link to the videos in the workbook?

I was thinking about doing:

• Simple Heroku/Sinatra
• Intro to OAuth
• API Happy Hour (quick peek at various APIs)

[kumogire]

Good idea. I was thinking we'd only do an electronic format of it anyway -
like PDF/HTML.

I get with Pat and we'll brainstorm a short list too.

-Keith

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Colin Loretz <
reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

Good question, I think it will be ok if they cross over, it might even be
good to do both so we can include a link to the videos in the workbook?

I was thinking about doing:

• Simple Heroku/Sinatra
• Intro to OAuth
• API Happy Hour (quick peek at various APIs)

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Partner, President/CEO
Trinity Applied Internet
(775) 473-9857x2
www.trinity-ai.com

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[colinloretz]

I'm going to be building out the workbook in this repo https://github.com/hack4reno/hack4reno-workbook if anyone wants to contribute. It is in a new repo so we can start issues/wiki around the workbook itself. We could even use the wiki and not the repo, or perhaps in the repo with Github:pages.

[colinloretz]

In the interest of time, I've closed a bunch of issues around sample code and tutorials and we can combine them in here.

Some ideas:

• Data Liberation Walkthrough: http://codeforamerica.org/2011/09/27/a-data-liberation-walkthrough/
• Tropo app/tutorial using the sample code that Adam has uploaded to this repo.
• Your First Heroku App
• To do iPhone App: https://github.com/jrbj/Todo - all the instructions are in the commits
• Twitter/Foursquare API
• Using SimpleGeo
• Google Maps

[colinloretz]

We unfortunately did not have time to build this out. This will be turned into a post-hackathon project so that we can send it to the participants and spectators who are interested in starting.

In the meantime, we will publish a list of tutorials and existing workbooks here:

https://github.com/hack4reno/hack4reno2011/wiki/Developer-Resources