[Plug-in Developer] Quickstart

[jmakowski1123]

Write a Quick Start doc for plugin developers covering the basic, necessary steps to get started with developing plugins/set up a plugin dev environment in ~under 20 minutes.

What is a Quick Start? https://documentation.divio.com/tutorials/

Quick Start Template you can use as reference/inspiration: https://docs.openedx.org/en/latest/educators/quick_starts/build_a_course.html

[Lyla-Fischer]

There are a lot of different ideas for plugins out there, including innovative problem types and various ways of navigating through leaf-level content. I would also like to advocate for a blended role: classroom teachers, who are not (primarily) content authors, but rather, who focus on student interventions. If at all possible, I would like to make a plugin to enable that kind of a role, but I don't know if the plugin infrastructure currently supports that level of creativity.

[Lyla-Fischer]

In other news, I spent some time looking at openedx-learning, and I'm excited for the inspiration behind that, even if the implementation is still very drafty. If we end up getting the right abstractions in openedx-learning, I would be interested in writing So Many Plugins for that.