rjduran / meteortree

The GSAPP Skill Tree is a pedagogy platform at Columbia University GSAPP for explaining and teaching the unknown unknowns of architectural software tools.

Meteortree

The GSAPP Skill Tree is a pedagogy platform at Columbia University GSAPP for explaining and teaching the unknown unknowns of architectural software tools.

(http://skilltree.gsapp.org)

Credits:

• Created by: Dan Taeyoung and Danil Nagy.
• Design: Dan Taeyoung
• Software development: Dan Taeyoung, Scott Donaldson
• Icons: Dan Taeyoung
• Video tutorials:
  • Farzin Lotfi-Jam
  • Danil Nagy
  • Bika Rebek
  • Dan Taeyoung
  • Josh Uhl
  • and many others.

Please send suggestions/comments to [e-mail].

Dev info:

Uses Meteor w/ Blaze & Coffeescript. Deployed with Heroku, MongoDB on Compose.io.

TODO:

• Trails for courses
• Better edit UI
• Megavision CSS positioning

How to develop / deploy:

Develop:

• Run devrun.sh
  • See devrun.sh.example to add MONGODB_URL env keys and others.

Deploy:

• git push heroku master

SCHEMA:

There are five collections: Tutorials, Steps, Links, Courses, Weeks

Each Tutorial is a single tutorial, represented as nodes on the tree. (ex: "Intro to Rhino"). Each Tutorial contains one or many Steps; each Step can be either 1) a video tutorial, or 2) an open-ended Markdown form. (ex: "Rhino interface video 1/2", "Conditionals in Python").

Links connect between Tutorials; each Link is a non-directional link between two Tutorials. Links are represented as edges on the tree.

Each Course is a specific trajectory through the tree (ex: "ADR2", "METATOOL"). Each Course contains a Week (ex: "Week 3").