04: Setting Foundations

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Things Mentioned

• Reactive UI's, as explained by Vue
• I know we talk about Vue.js a lot, so here's a similar idea from React site - Thinking in React
• Git things
  • Try Git - A really great git primer
  • Tower App - Git Cheatsheet
• Git gui apps
  • Git Tower
  • Github Desktop
  • Gitup
  • Vim Fugitive (if you're into vim)
• Mac Keyboard Shortcuts, specifically cmd+shift+/
• Alexjs - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing
• Upcase.com - Learn with Thoughtbot
• Today I Learned - A blog full of useful concepts by @rstacruz
• Is code for people or for computers? (hint: it's for people)
• Did you know there's an explore feature on GitHub? Because there totally is and you should check it out.

Bonus: If you're feeling down, check this out: http://moviecode.tumblr.com/ - it will make you chuckle (plus you're technically reading source code)