Dev Notes
Dev notes are a daily log of what you’re building. Think of them as a mix between a technical journal and a quick project update. For the purposes of this course, we’ll be logging our dev notes on GitHub Issues. This will help us both “learn in public” and track progress as a community.
Basic Structure
Date + What you’re working on
## July 22: Making a menu sectionWhat happened today
- What you made or tried to make. This might not always be an artifact.
- What you learned or figured out
- What annoyed you
- Cool stuff you found
Links and screenshots Save anything useful you found. Screenshots of your work, error messages you conquered, or just something that looked neat.
Write like you’re texting a friend about your day. Use “I” and be specific about what actually happened. “I spent 3 hours trying to understand how to use CSS to create a blinking animation” is more useful than “worked on CSS”.
Don’t worry about being formal or perfect. Some days you’ll write paragraphs, other days just bullet points. Both are okay.
Deadlines
Post before 10:00pm. I am not a class monitor, but there is no reason for you to drag entries beyond this time. Late nights are not a thing in this class! Put the laptop away, do something else please. Ji lo apni zindagi and all that.
Hello World
In the programming world, we start learning most things by writing a simple “Hello World” program. To get a taste of writing your first dev note, head over to this GitHub Issue to post your first message.