Product Management and Design

• Course design plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-FAyk28ct9ck16EW9bNMp69tSNCDQJLSBhUdFyvof4/edit
• See course info: https://degree-planner.programming.africa/?f=CS104
• See info about Kibo's BSc. Computer Science: https://kibo.school/degree/

What's here?

$ tree .
.
├── README.md
├── book.toml
├── theme/
└── src
    ├── SUMMARY.md
    └── chapter_1.md

README.md

This describes how to set up and edit the site.

book.toml

Config file for the course. Authors, title, other mdbook settings.

https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/format/configuration/index.html

theme/

Any overrides of the default mdbook theme. Right now, just some custom CSS on top of the standard mdbook CSS.

https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/format/theme/index.html

src

Holds all the course files.

The static site output will be built to output, but that's git ignored.

src/SUMMARY.md

This gets turned into the sidebar on the site.

It's the text that should show, plus links to other md files in src/.

https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/format/summary.html

Anything that is not linked in the sidebar will not be included in the output site.

src/*

These are the pages that actually make up the course. It's nice to put things in folders to organize the different pages. Each week can get a 'cover page' and a page per lesson, in a folder with that name, like

working-with-data.md
working-with-data/
    programs-and-comments.md
    variables-and-assignment.md
    data-types-operators-and-expressions.md
    input-and-output.md

etc.

output

To generate the static site, run:

mdbook build

Output lives in the output folder.

You can usually ignore these files, they aren't tracked in git.

Getting Started

Install mdbook: https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/guide/installation.html

Use your package manager:

brew install mdbook

or

scoop install mdbook

Or download a release from Github.

Or if you use rust: cargo install mdbook

Run the book locally

mdbook serve --open

Deployment

We use vercel to handle deploys. It takes some setup to connect a repo to vercel, assign a production domain, and set up auto-deploys.

• Github actions will run mdbook build on pushed changes
• All pushes will automatically deploy to vercel
• Vercel will notify the #tech-status channel on Slack with the deploy preview
• If you pushed to main, it will also deploy to the live site. Watch out!

Previews and Drafts

If you'd like to preview changes, push to draft branch, which will have a separate preview version of the site.

Remember - commits to main get built and deployed to the production site; commits to draft get pushed to the preview version, others get nothing.