Meeting Notes: Tue 10th September 2019 (Level 0)
Welcome! This is the notes page for our seventh learn-to-code-from-scratch meeting in The Avalon, Kent Road. The plan is to run something like this every month to get people up and running with basic web development and system admin.
What we'll do
This meeting is geared more towards complete beginners (Level 0), so we'll aim to teach:
How to set up an Amazon EC2 instance (a free private server you can start developing on)
How to securely access your server
Install a webserver and database on your server
Install a
GUI tool for administering your database
How to upload and edit files on your webserver
How to create a basic “Hello world” program
If there's time, some basic form and and database work
Whatever your level - you are very welcome to come along. We'll find some time to answer questions and if you are able to help newcomers with any issues they might have, all the better! That said, depending on your experience you might get more out of higher level meeting (Level 1+) - it's up to you.
What you'll need
A laptop
An account on AWS (visit Amazon Web Services and create an account
https://aws.amazon.com/ You will have to put credit card details in, but you won't be charged for your first year). This is optional but might save some time on the night.
Getting Started
See the Getting Started page for the list of instructions we'll work through to complete the objectives above.
Done the Getting Started tasks above? Try one of these:
Mobile Home Page Create your own home page for your mobile device. This mini project is ideal if you need some more experience with
HTML (and it shows some basic PHP code examples too).
The Quiz App This project is bit more advanced, take a look and see if you can work through the first few steps to get it up and running.
Troubleshooting
See the Troubleshooting page if you run into any problems following along with the Getting Started instructions, or just let me know and I'll try to help!
Attendees
An opportunity to make some new friends with common interests! Follow us on the Fediverse at https://glasgow.social/tags/coding (create an account on https://glasgow.social or on any Fediverse connected site) so you can keep in touch with everyone you meet tonight. Let me know if you want to share your Fediverse address so I can add the details below.
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Aileen McKenzie
Alan Kennedy
Anne
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Mo Akhtar
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Ruta Gor [open source]
Signed up, but didn't show
Abe Stewart [open source]
Anna
Gloriya
Jillian Joyce
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Joey
Ljupcho
MaryF
Michael
Olivia Foulds
Omer Mohammed
Rameez Tariq [open source]
Ravi Pathak [open source]
Szabó Attila [open source]
Tammy Tracey [open source]
Won Maung Thein
Yogita Gosain [open source]