I realised that my students don't have a quick way to get themselves properly immersed in the life. This is a quick list to try and work out what to do. I'm sure we can have all kinds of discussions about what level a thing is, but just PR to add things (or add them as an issue) and then we can debate in the issues!
This is for people taking their first steps into nerddom
- Read some XKCD
- Read some Coding Horror
- Have read at least one SF book
- Own a raspberry Pi.
- Have a GitHub account
- Be able to move around a file system from a Unix terminal
- Have a Stack Overflow account
- Be able to implement fizz buzz in under 30 minutes in any language
- Be able to use | and > at a Unix terminal
- Blink an led using the raspberry Pi
- Read an input from the raspberry Pi.
- GET a json file and do something with it
- Make a static website using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, host it on gh pages
- Read Coders at Work
- Ask a stack overflow question
- Read Hackers and Painters
- Answer a Stack overflow question
- Contibute to an open source project
- Have studied some category theory
- have a tech blog
- have your blog post be featured on /r/programming, hackernews or /.
. . .
- Read all of The joy of programming
Bonus level, get a Knuth reward check
