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Adding Tracks! (Main Tracks and Side Tracks) #279

Closed shiffman closed 6 months ago

shiffman commented 2 years ago

Thanks to everyone for your heroic efforts in porting the coding challenges! I'm not sure if we are keeping the spreadsheet in #155 up to date, but I thought I would open a new issue to track all of the "tracks" and "side tracks" that need porting over to the new website!

If you are interested in working on any these, please reply in a comment and let me know if you have any questions! @klinegareth for the tracks that are on the site, can you let us know if there are "unfinished" elements that others can contribute to?

Main Tracks are specifically curated sequences of videos that follow a "syllabus" (generally one of my classes at NYU but not necessarily.)

Side Tracks is a place where you the viewer of the Coding Train can get creative! Is there a collection of videos that go together well that you'd want to be able to share via a single URL? You are welcome to propose and curate side tracks for the website! Open a new issue with your idea so I can approve it before you go through all the work to make the JSON files etc.! I've got a starter list below of probably what makes the most sense?

dipamsen commented 2 years ago

I'm working on "Working with Data and APIs in JavaScript" Main track!

kfahn22 commented 2 years ago

I am happy to help with whatever is needed! I have been working on the challenges (and have been indicating the ones that I have taken in the spreadsheet in #155), but if you think other areas are priorities I can focus on them instead. I am waiting to open pull requests and am checking on image file size, but would appreciate exact criteria. From the above, I can work on Coding in the Cabana.

shiffman commented 2 years ago

Thank you @dipamsen and @kfahn22! I don't have an opinion re: priority, you are probably right it makes sense to do the challenges first especially since a lot of side tracks could be collections of challenges? The main tracks I would definitely do first before the side tracks!

@kfahn22 you can see what I did in #280, right now I've decided to keep all showcase images to a maximum of 800px width. I'm looking at the dimensions rather than the file size though I'm not clear what actually matters in terms of the gatsby build. So let's make that the convention for now!

I'd like to include the Coding in the Cabana as both a challenge and a side track, they don't have a number maybe let's add a letter for "cabana" to their JSON filename? @runemadsen @fdoflorenzano will this cause any issues in terms of the build? I guess we'll find out! They can end up in the sorting of challenges by date.

c1-maurer-rose.json
c2-collatz-conjecture.json
c3-hilbert-curve.json
c4-worley-noise.json
kfahn22 commented 2 years ago

I am assuming there were contributions for the Coding in the Cabana challenges, but I can't find them. Can you provide me a link?

shiffman commented 2 years ago

Try seeing what is at https://codingtrain.github.io/website-archive/

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augustkline commented 2 years ago

Awesome to see people helping with the site!

I think for tracks that are on the site already, the main thing to do would be to add topics, languages, and timestamps to videos. I think everything already on the site is JavaScript, but if there are other libraries used in a video (e.g. ml5) I think it would make sense to go through and add them. Timestamps are pretty tedious and I've basically ignored them for videos being ported over, so working on those would be super helpful but low priority.

Excited to see what people come up with for new Side Tracks!

fdoflorenzano commented 2 years ago

don't have a number maybe let's add a letter for "cabana" to their JSON filename? @runemadsen @fdoflorenzano will this cause any issues in terms of the build? I guess we'll find out! They can end up in the sorting of challenges by date.

The names in the files can be of any form, the build system doesn't expect the numbering prefix, that's for us. Although, the front-end will look for the videoNumber property from the JSON an if it's defined, it will show it with the title. Note that that property expects a string, so it can be more than just a number. This only happens with challenges, regular videos don't use that property btw.

SilvestriStefano commented 2 years ago

Hello, I would like to help out if I can. I could start working on the main track Git & GitHub for Poets.

shiffman commented 2 years ago

Thank you @SilvestriStefano! Let me know what help you need! You can also open a new issue or "work in progress" pull request to move discussion re: the specific track (Git/GitHub) in one thread. You can tag me or @klinegareth with questions!

SilvestriStefano commented 2 years ago

great! I'll start working right away!

kfahn22 commented 2 years ago

I was thinking of starting on the ML5 track. Are you planning on updating the repository?

anusha-exe commented 1 year ago

If no one is already working on the last main track Learning Processing, I could do it. Please let me know if it's fine

kfahn22 commented 1 year ago

Thank you @anusha-exe! I think @shiffman wants to redo the Processing videos, so maybe hold off until we have confirmation about that.

anusha-exe commented 1 year ago

Right. Thanks, @kfahn22

shiffman commented 1 year ago

I am planning on doing a new Processing series, that said I don't mind having the original one documented on the website for posterity. (Also, as an experiment I'm going to see about doing the new one as a single video.)

kaitabuchi314 commented 10 months ago

Programming from A to Z is missing.

shiffman commented 9 months ago

Programming from A to Z is missing.

I'd be open to including it! Many of the videos are very out of date, but some of it does and could be nice to annotate and organize!

shiffman commented 6 months ago

I think this issue is perhaps no longer needed and we can file individual issues for updating or adding tracks, ok to close?

kfahn22 commented 6 months ago

I think ok to close.