Annotated Bibliography of Hackathon Resources

Slack

• Great for team communication and collaboration
• Available in web, mobile, and desktop apps
• Docs, https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us

Markdown

• Lightweight markup language
• Great for quickly writing structured information
• Some markdown cheat sheets include:
  • https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet
  • https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206543587-Markdown-cheat-sheet

Trello

• Web-based project management app
• Great for keeping track of project tasks
• Docs, http://help.trello.com/

git

• Version control system
• Great for maintaining project files that change over time
• Easily distribute source code and other project files
• Docs, https://git-scm.com/doc

GitHub

• A git server service with built in collaboration tools
• Free for public/open source projects; free private projects for students and educators
• Great place to search for existing software
• Free, static web site hosting
• Docs, https://support.github.com/

Travis CI

• Continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub
• Docs, https://docs.travis-ci.com/

Stack Overflow

• Question and answer site for troubleshooting software issues

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

• Suite of on-demand cloud computing tools
• See especially:
  • S3, https://aws.amazon.com/s3/
    • data storage with web interface and API access
  • EC2, https://aws.amazon.com/ec2
    • scalable cloud computation
  • CLI, https://aws.amazon.com/cli
    • command line interface to manage AWS Services
  • Lambda, https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/
    • "functions as a service" (run code without provisioning or managing servers)

Unix commands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_commands

• Instructions typed into a "terminal", or "command line", that instruct a computer to do something
• Great for performing repetitive tasks
• For documentation and interactivity, see for example:
  • Ubuntu's Manpages Repository, http://manpages.ubuntu.com/
  • ExplainShell, https://www.explainshell.com/

Text editor

• A general purpose program used for editing plain text files.
• Great for writing source code, markdown files, etc.
• Some beginner-friendly open source text editors include:
  • Atom, https://atom.io/
  • Notepad ++, https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
  • Visual Studio Code, https://code.visualstudio.com/

Application frameworks

• General purpose software for building out specific applications
• Some popular open source frameworks include:
  • Python frameworks:
    • Flask, http://flask.pocoo.org/
    • Django, https://www.djangoproject.com/
  • Javascript frameworks:
    • React, https://facebook.github.io/react/
    • Vue, https://vuejs.org/
    • Angular, https://angularjs.org/
  • R frameworks:
    • Shiny, http://shiny.rstudio.com/

Docker https://www.docker.com/

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