[CodeLab 025]: Mon, Aug 21, 2017

[honzo0481]

🎉 Aug 21, 2017: CodeLab 025 in Session :alembic:

Who's here: Simeon (@svincent) Rob (@honzo0481) Jim (@jimthoburn) Danny (@dannylew12) Kero (@CMYKero) Kyle (@fujisawakyle) Philip (@philiplaucpa) 🌟 Roni 🌟 (🌟 = first-timer)

Stand Up 🙌

• Kyle just started an internship at a nonprofit. Good luck, Kyle!
• Roni is a CS student interested in AI.

Announcements 📢

1. CodeLab meets WEEKLY! 🎉
   • Review of our Code of Conduct. If you haven't already, complete our intro survey and workshop idea survey. Follow us on Twitter and Slack!
   • First week of month: Onboarding for newcomers, new projects, project/language you started in the previous month
   • Once a month: Urban Drool Tool work session
   • Rest of the month: Workshops
   • Pair programming track: @svincent has been moving the JavaScript Exercism exercises to Glitch—so you don't have to worry about setting up! We are interested in figuring out how to move exercises for other languages to Glitch.
2. Upcoming events
   • [10 am–4 pm / Sat, Sep 23 / UCLA] Creating Coding Fest / RSVP

In the Lab 🔬

• Kero and Simeon worked on a Single Page App HTML game.
• Jim showed us some cool features of modern CSS like non-rectangular layouts.
• Jacob and Rob are planning to implement a model from a deep learning paper.
• Danny is working through the polls app tutorial to learn Django.

Plans for Next Meeting (August 28, 2017) + Future 🔮

• Show-and-tell. Maybe?
• Potential tutorial topics: Timing, service workers, technical writing/documentation
• Urban Drool Tool: Setting up docs in a wiki (including how to set up locally)
• 💡: Build a CodeLab Calendar

[jimthoburn]

Great write-up! Thanks for posting this, Rob.