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author: ~cmccabe
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published: true
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title: teaching and learning on tilde.team
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description:
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category:
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- main
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# teaching and learning on tilde.team
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**tl;dr** bring project ideas. bring your skills. learn by doing.
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help others who are trying to learn. share what you're working on.
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## 1. start learning, start teaching!
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an important goal of tilde.team is to help you learn linux, programming, and
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general computing skills through the command line interface. we think it is
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important that this happens in a fun social environment. for this reason we
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encourage users to meet each other, to collaborate, to ask questions when
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you're stuck on something, and to offer help to others who are learning.
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stuck for ideas? or looking for a bigger challenge? tilde.team also maintains
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a [list of internship opportunities and code challenge websites](
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https://tilde.team/wiki/learning-opportunities). this list is a new
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feature of the site, so please contribute by letting us know (by email,
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IRC or pull request) of any other opportunities you know of.
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## 2. learning resources
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tilde.team's IRC server is the social hub around which a lot of learning
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occurs. [log on](https://tilde.team/wiki/irc) and get to know some people.
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we have numerous compilers and interpreters installed in the shell, including
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g++, python, ruby, perl and many others. if you need something that is not
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currently installed, just ask ~ben or any admin on IRC.
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in addition to the specific programming utilities, remember that *NIX itself
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is a platform designed for communal programming. if you are working with others,
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you have several tools at your disposal. you can, of course, share files with
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each other. and you can communicate through private messages on IRC, through
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email, or using the shell-based 'talk' or 'write' utilities.
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## 3. resource limits and performance profiling
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good code is efficient code, and part of learning to be a good programmer is
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learning how to develop elegant solutions that use the minimum system resources
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necessary. this is hard! but it is even more important on a multi-user system
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like tilde.team.
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some resource limits are established through /etc/security/limits.conf - you can
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read this file yourself to see what they are.
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beyond those limits, we simply ask that you monitor your code and be considerate
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of others on the system.
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as we develop more learning resources on the tilde.team wiki, we will provide
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some guidance about how to profile your code. of course, a quick web search
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for "code profiling [your language]" will give you a lot of help as well.
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## 4. learning how to build a learning environment
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the number one thing we know about learning is that being able to socialize with
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other learners and teachers is useful. but beyond this, we are working all the
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time to build and improve the other supporting resources on tilde.team.
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you can help! if you have suggestions about other resources or ways to help
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people practice programming or other linux skills, pop in to IRC and talk
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about it. many of the ideas that have already helped make this place better
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came from people like you. everybody is learning here; including the admins!
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