class materials

In order to participate in this course you will need to have a decent computer (desktop or laptop with 8-16GB of ram or more) and a modern Web browser like Firefox, Brave, Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi or others (do not use Internet Explorer or Safari as your primary browser, those are subpar browsers).

I highly recommend that you download more than one, because some of our code may render slightly differently on different browsers. You never know which browser your audience will be using to view/experience your work online and so it's important to test your work across the most common/popular browsers, these days that includes: Chrome, Firefox and Opera as well as Edge (the default browser on Windows) and Safari (the default browser on MacOS).

You will need a code editor, I will be using Atom but you could also use Sublime or VSCode (these are all very similar). If you have a preferred code editor that is not one of these, run it by me first for approval.

We'll be using standard open-source development tools in order to work collaboratively on our class project. For this you will need to download and install the git command line tool as well as create a free account on GitHub (if you're new to GitHub you should also checkout their Student Developer Pack).