# What training documentation does your brigade/project provide to beginner devs?

**URL:** <https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/what-training-documentation-does-your-brigade-project-provide-to-beginner-devs/574>\
**Category:** Technical Skillsharing\
**Tags:** tutorials, instructions\
**Created:** [June 24, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/what-training-documentation-does-your-brigade-project-provide-to-beginner-devs/574 "2019-06-24T17:23:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jess](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.codeforamerica.org/jess/32/168_2.png) [@jess](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/jess)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/what-training-documentation-does-your-brigade-project-provide-to-beginner-devs/574/1 "2019-06-24T17:23:41Z")

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**What resources do folks here offer to beginner-level developers who might need extra assistance with github workflows, deployment, testing, and other concepts?**

I don’t want to reinvent the wheel and we can certainly curate our own list of tutorials from what’s available online, but I suspect others have done something similar. Anyone want to share their documentation (e.g. contributing.mds, gists, or other approaches)?

Thanks!  
J.

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**Author:** ![chris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.codeforamerica.org/chris/32/10_2.png) [@chris](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/chris)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/what-training-documentation-does-your-brigade-project-provide-to-beginner-devs/574/2 "2019-07-02T15:25:03Z")

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@jess here’s a couple related threads where we’ve touched on this before:

> [@Onboarding Best Practices](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/onboarding-best-practices/172):
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> Here’s a question: what do you do when a new member comes to a brigade meeting? Things I’d love to hear opinions on: Explicit night for new members vs whenever How much do you explain detailed procedures vs letting them learn? How successful do you feel you are in orienting them and getting them productive?

> [@Bite-sized projects/activities at hack nights?](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/bite-sized-projects-activities-at-hack-nights/449):
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> I’m wondering if you’re ever in a lull between projects, a planned presenter unexpectedly cancels, or don’t have any tutorials ready: do you have any projects or activities that you have in your back pocket, so to speak, that you can break out and have your attendees do with minimal onboarding and get started? These types of projects/activities may not be valuable for long systemic change but they have a short onboarding process so that a new attendee can begin contributing within 30 minutes of…

I really liked the mini hack challenges Code for Baltimore was working on under a previous leadership team but that effort unfortunately seems to have fizzled. I haven’t come across anything really well put together and shareable yet in this space though it seems desperately needed

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**Author:** ![Mari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.codeforamerica.org/mari/32/992_2.png) [@Mari](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/Mari)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 7:04am UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/what-training-documentation-does-your-brigade-project-provide-to-beginner-devs/574/3 "2023-07-01T07:04:08Z")

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