Community Newsletter — December 2018 Edition
(Cross-posted from our TinyLetter.)
Note: This month’s newsletter is written by wuworkshop. Guest authors take turns drafting this newsletter. If you would like to be a guest author, please reply to this email.
CodeBuddies Updates:
- NEW YEAR’S EVE HACKATHON (DEC 28th-DEC 31st):
CodeCareer.org (#301ofdaysofcode) reached out to ask if we would like to partner in a three-day virtual hackathon before 2019! Of course we said yes. Prizes will include free stickers from Product Hunt and course discounts, etc. and there will be Twitch streaming. If you are interested in participating in the hackathon, please register here.
2. CRACKING THE CODE INTERVIEW STUDY GROUP:
The #coltcs private Slack channel has been actively going through the interview questions from the book Cracking the Coding Interview. If you’d like to join the channel, ask Radhika Morabia (Orville Radenbacher on Slack) for an invite.
3. NEW VIDEOS ON CODEBUDDIES YOUTUBE
On our YouTube channel, we have new videos featuring Connie and Gaurav presenting code walkthroughs of PR contributions they’ve made to the project, as well as code walkthroughs to help potential new contributors who want to make their first pull request.
(Thanks Julian for helping organize this initiative!)
4. OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN FROM OPEN SOURCE PROJECT MAINTAINERS
Looking for an open source project to contribute to, but not sure how to get started? Linda (blog post inspiration) is starting a video series to help connect maintainers willing to do code walkthroughs with new contributors, to benefit both parties.
If you’re interested in participating in this video series idea either as a walkthrough attendee/participant or as a maintainer, please fill out this form! Some very cool serious OSS projects have already signed up to do walkthroughs.
5. CONNECT WITH SOMEONE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO CAN HELP YOU BE PRODUCTIVE/LEARN FASTER
You can:
- Join the 24/7 Coworking Silent Hangout when you’re coding/studying by yourself and want some productive screensharing motivation
- Post on forum.codebuddies.org
- Ask for coding help, advice, or share knowledge on Slack. Popular channels: #advice, #pair-programming
- Start a study group or invite people to study/code with you in a group or pairing hangout (we typically turn off video) on codebuddies.org/hangouts
- Work-in-Progress: CB Connect — a platform to match people who want to mentor/teach with mentees, accountability partners with each other, etc. (If you want to contribute, give feedback or follow along with this idea, join us here.)
Personal Project Shout-Outs:
A collection of awesome open-sourced projects built by members of the CB community
1. BuddyBot by Bill (Bill / 葛威) is a community-minded bot that allows users to report potential Code of Conduct issues on Slack. The project is looking for help developing a landing page, adding workspace customisations, and adding new community management features.
2. Western Friend by Brylie (@brylie) is an online magazine publishing and community platform. The project is looking for help from people interested in Django and Python. Brylie works on this project openly, so you can join one of the hangouts he hosts (check codebuddies.org/hangouts) and ask questions/participate live!
3. IndieFilms by Phil (tgrrr) is a React web app (React 16.7 with hooks!) to promote independent films in a world of Netflix. The project is looking for new contributors interested in React, making pull requests using git, npm and yarn, ES-linted code, adapter patterns, and Node backend with GraphQL. DM Phil on Slack if you’re interested!
Wins:
- Megan Taylor built this fun Snake game: https://megantaylor.github.io/snakeGame/ (code)
- More recent learnings and accomplishments posted by members in the “Today I Learned” section on the website:
BONUS Holiday Events:
- Advent of Code 2018 is “an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.”
Note: CodeBuddies members are sharing their solutions in the DailyAlgorithms Github here. Join the fun!
2. 24 Pull Requests encourages developers to give back to open source for the holidays. In an effort to be more inclusive, you will now be able to record every kind of contribution you make to open source, not just pull requests. You can read more about this change at https://24pullrequests.com/2018
3. Egghead.io’s Holiday Course Release Extravaganza has started. From Dec 1st-Dec 15th, Egghead.io will be releasing one Pro course for free each day for a limited time.
CodeBuddies Newsletter
Writer: wuworkshop
Editor: Linda
Many thanks to our current active backers on our Open Collective:
Anbuselvan Periannan, Brendan Schlagel, DigitalOcean (site hosting), and MongoDB Atlas (DB hosting)
