Tilde

What is Tilde?

It is an open source, agile, collaborative learning platform. Chock full of wholesome goodness.

It was designed by devs for devs. The idea is that people should learn to code in a way that feels the same as working on a real dev team. From the student's point of view it is a kanban board with interesting integrations. But there is a lot more to it than that.

This is for our learners/students (we call them recruits):

• https://umuzi-org.github.io/tech-department/syllabuses/intro-to-tilde-for-students/
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqU7nTtS-XlkQg6qDxvskKzITPU3YmMQB The syllabus in the top link gets converted into a bunch of cards that show up on the student's board

And this is for our staff (we call them staff): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqU7nTtS-XlnztOgNcuV_LSpRyc0qeS8_

Community

Join the conversation on Discord.

Some channels:

• #help is for general questions. For example: "How do I mark a project as complete"
• #dev is for developers needing help from the community while developing new features or getting set up
• #dev-getting-started is for questions about getting your local environment set up for development.
• #issue-claim is for people who want to take on existing issues.

There are also a bunch of voice channels available that you can take over as needed :)

Here is our Tilde syllabus-as-code

https://github.com/Umuzi-org/ACN-syllabus

You can run this as a standalone static site, or use it as an input to Tilde.

Help Wanted!

We want to be able to use this platform and the community built around it to help as many people as we can. If you want to help out there are lots of different things to do:

• Make a PR on this repo:) We would appreciate code, there's a lot to do
• Make a PR on our syllabus repo.
• Help our community by hanging out on our Discord server and answering questions
• Volunteer to help in other ways. We are educators and there are loads of ways to add value to what we do, from code review to mentorship sessions and pair programming sessions.
• Tell your friends

Awards

Tilde is a core component of the African Coding Network. ACN won the "Most Scalable Solution" prize in the Ashoka Future Skills Innovation Challenge.

License

Watch this space. We still need to decide on this.

Roadmap

Please take a look at our development milestones.

For now, focus on this one:

https://github.com/Umuzi-org/Tilde/milestone/1

How to Contribute

Check out contribute.md and quick-start.md for instructions.