Nodeschool Dallas

OUR FIRST MEETUP JAN 28th!
http://www.meetup.com/Nodeschool-Dallas/events/218168772/

NodeSchool is an open source project run by volunteers with two goals: to create high quality programming curriculum and to host community learning events.

http://nodeschool.io/

What's a NodeSchool?

• Main site: http://nodeschool.io/
• NodeSchool workshoppers (problem sets): http://nodeschool.io/#workshoppers

###More about NodeSchool

• NodeUp Podcast discussing NodeSchool: http://nodeup.com/
• Teach Your Way to Becoming a Better Programmer: https://medium.com/social-tables-tech/teach-your-way-to-becoming-a-better-programmer-135c6aca5968

Get Node Up and Running

• nvm: https://github.com/creationix/nvm

  • Allows for multiple Node.js versions installed (similar to Ruby's rvm)
  • Installs in user's home directory, avoids "sudo" problems

• Node.js binary: http://nodejs.org/

  • Easiest install method
  • Can require "sudo" permissions

General Resources:

• Node.js API documentation: http://nodejs.org/api/
• Mozilla Developer Network (JavaScript documentation): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
• npm: https://www.npmjs.org/

Attendance

• Sign into Github or sign up if you haven't already!
• Find the file with today's date in this project's events folder and click to view it
• Press the edit button in the top right corner of the document's header (pencil icon)
• Find your name under the Attendance section
  • If you don't see your name, add it!
  • Feel free to change the way your name appears!
  • Keep the list in alphabetical order!
• Change the [ ] next to your name to [x] to indicate that you are here!
• Scroll down and click Propose file change
• On the next page, leave us a nice comment if you'd like, and then click Create pull request
• Congratulations! Your attendance at Nodeschool has been noted and you will be added to the Nodeschool Dallas team shortly!