TADHackZA 2021

Welcome to TADHackZA 2021. This page will guide you on how to get started with IBM Cloud and IBM Developer!

We will also share a few resources with you to kick start your development. :)

Workshop Resources

Login/Sign Up for IBM Cloud - https://ibm.biz/Bdf8Pt
Webinar Replay - TADHackZA 2021 - Webinar Sessions Streamed live on Sep 24, 2021 replay IBM Developer @ 01:22:34

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Getting Started

Sign up or Log in to IBM Cloud

If you already have an account, log in to IBM Cloud

And if you haven't, don't worry! We have got you covered! There are 3 steps to create your account on IBM Cloud:

Input your email address and password.
Look out for an email notification containing your verification link sent to the email address you registered with, and verify your account.
Fill in the form.
Please make sure you select the country you are in when asked at any step of the registration process.

After Signing up or Login in. You will be redirected to the IBM Cloud Home Page.

From here, you can click on the catalog option next to the search bar to access all IBM Cloud Services and Offerings.

You can then filter the services according to category, provider, type, delivery method, deployment target or release.

Alternatively, you can search for desired service in the Search Bar.

As an example, we can search for an select Watson Studio. The results provide a quick summary of the displayed services.

You can then click on the Watson Studio Service which will lead you to the service's provisioning page.

The landing page will allow you to enter a name for your service and create it, however you might find it beneficial to take a bit of time to read more about the service, its capabilities and potential use cases in the about section. :)

If you scroll down, on the left pane, there are very important documentation links which walk you through how to create a "Hello World" of the service, other examples and some API documentation as well.

Each service on the catalog can be interacted with in a simiar manner, please feel free to reach out to the mentors should you have any additional questions. :)

IBM Developer

The IBM Developer Site (https://developer.ibm.com/) is the home of IBM Developer Content. This is our landing page.

You can utilize the search button to search for various keywords. Some great suggested searches: AI, JavaScript, Microservices, OpenShift, Docker, Security, etc..

IBM Developer has a collection of articles, blogs code patterns( creme dela creme ), datasets, APIs, tutorials and videos you can choose from.

Code patterns offer up complete solutions to problems that developers face every day. Code patterns leverage multiple technologies, products, or services to solve issues that our developer advocates have recognized as common use cases across multiple industries. There is a list of suggested code patterns in the next section. :)

After searching for a technology or keyword, you can filter your content results accordingly, the next screenshot shows this in detail.

Each Code Pattern leads you through the use case, the objective and also shares the code which can be reused and tailored to fit your own use case. The Code Patterns also demonstrate how we can integrate IBM Services and Open Source Technologies into our applications.

Continuing with what we were doing earlier, if we filter our AI search result to view code patterns, we can then select a desired pattern.

When we have selected a Code Pattern, we can then click on "Get the code", which will redirect us to GitHub where all necessary project files resides.