Contributing

starterkit-lessons is an open source project, and we welcome contributions of all kinds:

  • New lessons;

  • Fixes to existing material;

  • Bug reports; and

  • Reviews of proposed changes.

By contributing, you are agreeing that we may redistribute your work under these licenses. You also agree to abide by our contributor code of conduct.

Getting Started

  1. We use the fork and pull model to manage changes. More information about forking a repository and making a Pull Request.

  2. To build the lessons please install the dependencies.

  3. For our lessons, you should branch from and submit pull requests against the master branch.

  4. When editing lesson pages, you need only commit changes to the Markdown source files.

  5. If you’re looking for things to work on, please see the list of issues for this repository. Comments on issues and reviews of pull requests are equally welcome.

Dependencies

To build the lessons locally, install the following:

  1. starterkit-ci

Then build the pages:

$ starterkit_ci build --allow-warnings
$ starterkit_ci check --allow-warnings

and start a web server to host them:

$ cd build
$ python -m http.server 8000

You can see your local version by using a web-browser to navigate to http://localhost:8000 or wherever it says it’s serving the book.