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Lesson plan for Chain React 2018 Workshop
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Move React Native Windows to Step 4? #10

Open kevinvangelder opened 6 years ago

kevinvangelder commented 6 years ago

One potential problem I see is that students won't be able to get their app running on Windows until the second half of the class. Since none of them will be able to run the app in iOS on their Windows machines, and most likely some of them won't be set up to run it in Android either, any mistakes they make early in the process won't manifest themselves until the RNW step. This has the potential to cause a backlog of students needing help debugging problems and cause students unnecessary frustration towards RNW.

If we get RNW set up and running as one of the early steps in the process we can make sure everyone is able to compile and run the app before we start modifying the javascript and potentially introducing bugs. Just an idea.

rozele commented 6 years ago

@kevinvangelder our assumption was that most people will come prepared for Vlad's part of the workshop (which I presume will be on Android or iOS). The recommendation was for folks to bring a Mac and install a (free) Windows 10 VM for VirtualBox or Parallels).

kevinvangelder commented 6 years ago

That's a good point I hadn't thought of. I guess since it's an advanced workshop we're assuming they have basic and intermediate knowledge already, which means they should be able to set up Android Studio on their own if they haven't already done so.

rozele commented 6 years ago

I wrote off a lot of things to "this is an advanced workshop", so hopefully that holds true 🤞