What You Need to Know

Core Skills/Tools - basic familiarity is required

• git + GitHub: basic source control skills are pivotal for working with teams

• TypeScript: a javascript superset that adds powerful typing and other functionality; if you know javascript, you can write TypeScript

• nodejs: server/cloud javascript (we use 8.x for AWS Lambda compatibility)

Recommended Tools - use these, or bring and know your own

• Laptop: bring your own, or let us know if you need to reserve a workstation

• VSCode: open source code editor with live debugging for front-end and back-end environments, extensive plugin ecosystem

• TortoiseGit (Windows Shell UI for git)

• Markdown editors/viewers: Markdown Preview Plus (view in Chrome), edit/preview in VSCode, Typora (win/mac/linux)

What you need: tl;dr

You need a laptop and a code editor, plus a basic understanding of git, javascript and Markdown.

Get up to Speed: Tutorials

• Learn Markdown in 30 minutes

• Git

  • Git resources--handbook, cheat sheets, etc.

  • Github + git from command line (shell)

  • Git + TortoiseGit (installs in Windows Explorer)