Besut Kode - Workshop 1

Editor's Notes

• #3: Do you want to become a programmer? It is frequently said that learning to code is as important as learning language and maths. While everyone should be able to read code, writing good software is hard, and needs people who are dedicated to improving software development. http://www.wired.com/insights/2015/02/should-we-really-try-to-teach-everyone-to-code/ But... “Even weak programmers can make a good living in the United States.” - Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/06/21/why-is-being-a-programmer-a-good-career-choice/ Do you like mathematics or science? Then Besut Kode & CGI is for you.
• #4: Google Code-in is extreme programming. Six weeks (December – January) Many open source projects Thousands of 13-17 year old, across the globe Tasks of varying difficulty and type Coding Documentation/Training, including creating videos Outreach/Research Quality Assurance (testing) User Interface Wikimedia has participated since 2013 Wikimedia includes hundreds of projects, but is premoninately Php and Python. I organise the Python component of Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Extreme_programming_in_action.jpg
• #5: GCI participants are challenged every day, from the best mentors, and learn _a lot_ if they stick with the program until the end. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015#Wrap-up_blog_posts Participants get better each year they are involved. GCI winners go to Google Plex, meet other winners and meet the mentors. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Android_building_in_Googleplex_with_sculptures.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Google_Conference_Bike.jpg
• #6: Most importantly, GCI participants build their online portfolio on Github. Github has more than 14 million users and more than 35 million repositories. 125,000 LOC added per day. It the largest host of source code in the world. It also host websites. Github is the 61st most visited site on the Internet.
• #7: But, Github is not a hosting company. It is a social network and job recruitment company. Your Github profile is your most important CV. It doesnt lie.
• #8: And Github publishes their prime asset; thier metadata . You can download it on Github Archive.
• #9: Which other companies than use, and sometimes publish new information Such as http://octoboard.com/ (Defunct) showing statistics as of March 11, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20150801193208/http://octoboard.com/
• #10: Another tool shows the most “starred” developers, per country
• #11: And per city. If you are a startup company in Surabuya, and you need a good developer, who are you going to call…
• #12: Github Awards is biased … somehow this chap is 5th Go user in Jakarta, and 25th in Indonesia
• #15: http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/03/github-government-bureaucat-open-source.html
• #18: Irony alert – Github does not use Github for issue management
• #19: http://www.opencompany.org/ https://gratipay.com/about/ http://inside.gratipay.com/ https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Open_Company
• #23: Github is website built around Git. Every programmer must know git. Git is the canvas on which you work. Git is an open source distributed version control system (VCS). It manages files that are being edited by people all over the world, giving each copy its own version identifier. So each person knows which version they have, and how to merge their changes with other peoples changes, to the same file. Git was created by Linus Torvalds, to help him build an operating system that you may have heard of, called Linux. Git is replacing all other version control systems used previously.
• #24: Well, not all VCS are being replaced. Git is not industrial quality.
• #25: There are some weaknesses in Git. The only other common open source DVCS is mecurial, and most developers are migrating from mecurial with git. If you want to try mecurial, create an account on Bit Bucket. To solve the problems of git, use Perforce, but is not open source, and it is not cheap. https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-advantages-of-Perforce-over-git https://bitbucket.org/mats_ekberg/boar/wiki/Rationale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_version_control_software
• #27: Would you like to study at one of these universities? Or, would one of these look good one your resume..?
• #28: You want to a Python job, … fixing bugs in Python will look good on your resume. You want to prove you are good at mathematics to potential employers, get involved in SageMath. Etc.
• #29: What to be an Operating System expert … You can participate in building an Operating System.
• #30: Or do you like large knowledge foundaries?
• #31: Or building websites...
• #32: Or building applications ...
• #33: Or you want to do specific types of mathematics, like - writing computer games, or - solve network theory problems (git), or - natural language theory
• #35: Find a project that best suits you. Either something you are good at, or something you are excited about learning. There is a possibility that your first choice isnt part of GCI 2016. So, pick a second/fallback project, just in case. ------ 2015- : https://developers.google.com/open-source/ https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/ https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ 2009-2015: https://www.google-melange.com/archive/ https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/example-tasks 2015 tasks: https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/2015/organization/ Project specific documentation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2015 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1587/ https://groups.drupal.org/google-code-in https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gci/2014/orgs/drupal
• #36: Everything about the previous CGI tasks is public, so read the archives.
• #37: Check their GCI tasks from previous years, to ensure the tasks in GCI are what you want to work on. You can write up GCI tasks, which will help the project become eligible for the next GCI.
• #38: To really start on Day 1, you need to be prepared before Day 1 People participating in GCI for their second year, are already prepared. You can be too. Install and use all of the tools Be familiar with their coding guidelines Watch their code reviews Sometimes parts of their coding guidelines are not formally written down *anywhere*, but are communicated during code reviews. Understand which problems are HARD. Some of the GCI tasks may be labelled easy, but intersect with unsolved HARD problems, and you’ll waste a lot of time on the task. If you were prepared, your first task will be approved immediately
• #39: Become part of the project team, today. Join their live discussions. Typically IRC. Today. During GCI, check in every day. If you have prepared, you will be more advanced than other GCI participants. Help them. Your mentor will love you!
• #40: Learn appropriate communication in software projects. Dont use "Sir" ! If you commit good code, and you will, you are not lower value than the mentor. When you are part of a group working closely together, informal English is used to communicate. Dont be shy of your English skills. Dont let it stop you from getting help. Open source projects have many people where English is their second language, just like you. Dont say “sorry for my bad English” every sentence. They know your English is bad. They only care about your code.
• #41: “How can I do all of these things, today” The easiest approach is carefully cleaning existing code. Lint is the rubbish that sticks on clothing. Lint is also the bad code that sticks to good code. De-linting, if done carefully, can provide endless number of tasks that do not involve changing functionality, or require understanding the code. It allows you to be productive while familiarising yourself with the code. https://github.com/mcandre/linters https://github.com/mre/awesome-static-analysis Build and use new linting tools. They improve your understanding of the language itself, and common problems with using the language and its standard libraries.
• #42: Misspellings are another easy way to contribute to a project. In this image, the Spanish word -- Guía –- has a grave accent on the "i", which does not exist in Spanish. Immediately obvious to the Spanish. Misspellings are a very hard problem to solve beyond simple cases like incorrect glyphs. Practise using tools to identify misspellings. http://jwilk.net/software/mwic https://pypi.python.org/pypi/misspellings https://github.com/mcandre/aspelllint Improve misspellings tools. Also be familiar with grammar checkers. https://www.languagetool.org/
• #43: FOSSASIA as an umbrella organization for projects and developers in Asia. FOSSASIA is a GCI participating organisation, and here are a few of their 2015 mentors Your first Besut Kode challenge was a Wikimedia project. Your second Besut Kode challenge will be a FOSSASIA project....
• #44: loklak is one of the FOSSASIA projects. loklak is a server that provides untracked use of twitter data, and other social media. ---- https://github.com/loklak http://asksusi.com/ https://github.com/loklak/GCI2015 http://loklak.org/images/loklak_collect.png
• #45: The project includes - server - wordpress - android apps - javascript, java, go, python, php, and C# client libraries - Github Pages websites ---- https://github.com/loklak http://asksusi.com/ https://github.com/loklak/GCI2015 http://loklak.org/images/loklak_collect.png
• #46: https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+user%3Aloklak 189 issues; languages 82 Java 62 JavaScript 30 PHP 4 Python 4 CSS 2 C# 1 Shell 1 Objective-C
• #47: A private repository will be created, and all participants who have finished Challenge 1 will have access. 1. Create five new "GCI sized" task/issues in the Besut Kode loklak repository. The mentors will mark them as “easy”, “medium” or “hard” 2. Solve issues created by someone else. To pass this challenge you must solve one medium or hard difficulty task, or three easy tasks. Warning: DO NOT COMMUNICATE with the loklak project during Challenge 2. Besut Kode participants who successfully finish Challenge 2 will be mentored on how to interact publicly with loklak project. Note: a more formal description of Challenge 2 will be provided before you when Challenge 2 starts.
• #48: https://github.com/loklak/loklak_api_go It has a .travis.yml, but does not have Go linting. Create a task to implement Go linting, suggesting the linter to use. Another participant can then solve the task.
• #49: http://loklak.github.io/ "*We never share your email with 3rd parties" should be "* We never share your email with 3rd parties" "© 2015" should be "© 2016" or "© 2015-2016" or ...?