ASIST/slaiserswhocode

Code Club for SLAISers

A weekly meetup for SLAIS students who want to learn how to code or practice what they know!

You do not have to know how to code.

Don't know where to start? Check out the resources below:

Articles: Why bother with coding?

• Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code
• Learning to Code: Some Tips from Librarians Who've Done It
• What's in a digital archivist's skill set?
• Why would a Librarian learn to code?
• Librarians and Computer Programming: Understanding the role of programming within the profession of librarianship

Tutorial Sources

• Code Academy
• Code School
• Code.org
• Khan Academy
• Try Ruby and Rails for Zombies

Cool Tools

• Scratch
• Hopscotch
• X-Ray Goggles
• Webmaker + Thimble

Project Ideas

• Automate a boring, repetitive task with Python. Because you've got better things to do than copy and paste stuff.
• Get inspired by projects created by actual Archivists & Librarians "to make their lives better"
• Make Space Invaders through Scratch or Javascript
• Remix existing projects using HTML, CSS & JavaScript
• Combine HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create web projects on CodeAcademy
• Make hangman & other games with Python
• "Fork" our Reader's Advisory Device code from GitHub, and add new book recommendations by editing some Python

"What are APIs even?"

• Intro to APIs
• Download Postman
• Try out UBC's Open Collections API

Community

• Code 4 Lib
• Library Carpentry
• Ladies Learning Code
• Hour of Code
• Meetup
• Vancouver Hack Space - not just for coders but rather makers of all sorts!
• UBC's R Study Group