1. BIT 286: (Web) Application Programming
Lecture 07: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Slack

2. Adminis-trivia Team Formation stuff not yet graded
Project Concept document is due next class
We’re going to work on that today

3. Today’s Plan Look at Slack Work on Project Concept Document via Slack
GOALS:
Get you started on using Slack
Familiarize your with stuff it can do
You’ll get more comfortable with it as you go
Work on Project Concept Document via Slack

4. Slack

5. Background Slack is _the_ way to communicate in business nowadays
So pervasive even The Stranger relies on it (Example: Warning: Mildly NSFW link (swearing) )
Disclaimer: This link is meant to illustrate how wide-spread Slack is, not to endorse any particular political position or candidate. In other words, if a even weekly newspaper relies on Slack then it must be widespread
Slack is IRC
IRC on steroids, run amok, but still IRC at it’s core
It’s interesting the extent to which current market value can be derived from older technologies (see also: SlashDot and Reddit, Hacker News, etc)

6. Set up a Slack team for your BIT 286 team The basics:
Join #general
Try sending each other messages
Try sending each other files

7. Formatting posts In a channel, make a Post, then format it
Formatting: for-posts
Make a bullet list, numbered list, checklist
Make headings
Format just the selection

8. Send someone a private message
Channels
Switch to another channel
Create a public channel, send a message on it
Create a private channel, send a message on it
Send someone a private message
Search
Search-for-messages-and-files
Try searching from a particular person, or in a particular channel, or before a particular date, or between two dates

9. Slash commands

10. Slash commands Type /<command> - UI will auto-complete for you
/topic
purpose
Changes the topic of the channel

11. Slash commands /remind /remind me to take out trash in 1 minute
en-us/articles/ Set-a-reminder
/remind me to take out trash in 1 minute
/remind me in 1 minute to take out trash
/remind list – to see all reminders

12. Slack Apps Try sending each other gifs
to add Giphy
Then try /giphy cats
- mostly technical details
Get notifications of GitHub commits, etc:
There’s also apps for Google calendar, Google drive, etc
Browse through ‘Developer Tools’ and ‘Bots’
If you find something awesome let everyone else know!

13. Slack Apps, advice

14. Lots of ‘advice’ articles out there about using Slack
Todo list – posts, pins, stars, #to-do channel, Wunderlist
Posts (to save meeting notes)
Reading in slack
Connecting your Google calendar
Video conferencing
Voice + video -

15. Mobile Apps available, too
For iOS, Android
You can download, install, and figure them out on your own.

16. Project Work

17. Practice Using Slack
Let’s pretend that we’re using slack to coordinate a remote meeting
Team Coordinator:
create a (public) channel for #projectconceptdocument
Set a reminder for the team to meet in the channel in 2 minutes (Normally this would be 1 hour and/or 10 minutes
Everyone be in the channel on time
Zip ideas back and forth
If you’ve got website links to share this would be great

18. Brainstorm project ideas via Slack, while sitting next to each other
So if something goes wrong you can fix it quickly
Select & refine project ideas

19. Project work Read through the Statement of Needs (5 min)
Find a doc about Common Core that explains expectations of students finishing first grade (10 minutes)
Feel free to share with your group as you find stuff
Brainstorm ideas individually (10 minutes)
Brainstorm ideas as a group (15 minutes)
Ideas up that you thought up individually and/or thought up in a group
TODO on your own: the Project Concept Document