First preview release

Hey folks! This curriculum is still under development. While it is evolving, I will post regular notes here as I update things. Check back here regularly, and please provide me feedback via Slack (at-chris) to I can fix errors, clarify confusing language, and generally improve to make sure it's the best possible for our students.

Thanks,

Chris
2/5/17

Notes

Initial release of (most of) the first 3 weeks of material (classes 1-6). Some items here will continue to evolve a bit over the next week.

• When going through the initial repo setup, I suggest setting up a new remote to point to our upstream repo (i.e. the original csharp-exercises repo):
  git remote add upstream LAUNCHCODE_REPO_URL
  I'll be making additions here, so you'll be easily able to merge them in. In fact, I suggest you do a fetch/merge from upstream each time to go to work on code in this repository.
• We've re-written large portions of Java For Python Programmers for our Java track to fit here, with C#. Some more sections will be added to this set of lessons.
• Students will start the first assignment after Class 2
• Content marked Bonus Mission is optional, and generally of a more advanced nature than what is contained in the rest of a given lesson/assignment/studio. This content is a new addition, and should be good for keeping more advanced students engaged. If you have suggestions for more bonus missions, let us know!

To be added to classes 1-6:

• More studios
• Assignment 2, to be started after class 4 or 5
• Add unit tests to first two assignments, along with a brief unit test lesson in class 5
• More examples in csharp-exercises