Hackathon Resources

Slack

Great for team communication and collaboration. Available in web, mobile, and desktop apps.

Docs, https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us

Markdown

Lightweight markup language. Great for quickly writing structured information. Cheat sheets:

• https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet
• https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206543587-Markdown-cheat-sheet

Trello

Web-based project management app. Great for keeping track of project tasks.

Docs, http://help.trello.com/

git

Version control system. Great for maintaining project files that change over time. Easily distribute source code and other project files.

Docs, https://git-scm.com/doc

GitHub

A git server service with built-in collaboration tools. Free for public/open source projects; free private projects for students and educators. Great place to search for existing software. Also has free static website hosting.

Docs, https://support.github.com/

Travis CI

Continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub.

Docs, https://docs.travis-ci.com/

Stack Overflow

Question and answer site for troubleshooting software issues. Answers can come pretty quickly, but be sure to follow guidelines.

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

A suite of on-demand cloud computing tool.

See especially:

• S3 (data storage with web interface and API access), https://aws.amazon.com/s3/
• EC2 (scalable cloud computation), https://aws.amazon.com/ec2
• CLI (command line interface to manage AWS), https://aws.amazon.com/cli
• Lambda ("functions as a service" - run code w/o provisioning or managing servers), https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/

Unix commands

Instructions typed into a "terminal", or "command line", that instruct a computer to do something. Great for performing repetitive tasks. For documentation and interactivity, see for example:

• Ubuntu's Manpages Repository, http://manpages.ubuntu.com/
• ExplainShell, https://www.explainshell.com/

Text editor

A general purpose program used for editing plain text files. Great for writing source code, markdown files, etc. Some beginner-friendly open source text editors include:

• Atom, https://atom.io/
• Notepad ++, https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
• Visual Studio Code, https://code.visualstudio.com/

Application frameworks

General purpose software for building out specific applications. Some popular open source frameworks include:

• Python frameworks:
  • Flask, http://flask.pocoo.org/
  • Django, https://www.djangoproject.com/
• Javascript frameworks:
  • React, https://facebook.github.io/react/
  • Vue, https://vuejs.org/
  • Angular, https://angularjs.org/
• R frameworks:
  • Shiny, http://shiny.rstudio.com/

Docker

Docker R R Studio ssh unix commands creating an R package software testing python julia javascript groovy ubuntu

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