HackyHour

A central repository for the EGGL lab HackyHours

The repository will serve as the home base for the EGGL lab hacky hours.

The mission of HackyHour:

The mission of hacky hour is several things:

• To keep track of group lessons and build references in a single place
• To efficiently and collaborativly learn new computing skills
• To reach a consensus for computer practices in our lab

How to join and participate

To join hacky hour, log into github.umn.edu/UMN-Equine-Lab and click the "Watch" button.

Schedule

We will meet for up to 1 hour biweekly on Thursdays @ 15:00.

• 00 - 3/11/21

• What is hacky hour?
• Blue sky brainstorming!

Past Lessons

• 01 - 2/27/17 - Github Basics and Markdown

• Organization
• Github "Issues" and repository basics
• Going bonkers with Markdown

• 02 - 4/3/19 - GitHub and shell scripting

• Github: Forking and pushing
• Writing and running shell scripts (?)
• Individual issues
  https://github.com/KirstieJane/STEMMRoleModels/wiki/Syncing-your-fork-to-the-original-repository-via-the-browser
  https://help.github.com/en/articles/syncing-a-fork

• 03 - 4/24/19 - Command line python

• Github: Branching and remote tracking THIS IS COOL!
• Argparse and the main scope
• Individual issues

• 04 - 5/1/19 - Parallelizing tasks?

• Github something?
• Individual issues