Juju Academy

[Nick Veitch]

Nice work, when it is ready we can add it to the getting started
section of the docs too.

Small point - 'juju generate-config', not 'juju init', you may await my PR

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo at niemeyer.net> wrote:
> This is _extremely_ cool, Marco. Very well done!
>
> One tiny suggestion, for anyone interested in contributing: it would
> be great to have "ls [-la]" at some point. That's the first thing most
> people will type when seeing a prompt, and gives them room for
> navigating to the juju configuration directory.
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Marco Ceppi <marco at ceppi.net> wrote:
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I was trying to keep this under wraps as I worked on it more before
>> announcing to the world but I'm too excited with the progress so far so
>> here's the "SUPER ALPHA BETA OMEGA" introduction to Juju Academy.
>>
>> I started this, http://juju.academy (http://learnjuju.com) based on my own
>> experiences when trying new software. Primarily modeled after the Learn Go
>> Lang webiste (http://tour.golang.org/) I set out to create an easy platform
>> that emulates a terminal environment and allows a user to try Juju before
>> ever having to install it. In addition I wanted to make a lightweight lesson
>> framework to help guide new users in this exciting new Service Orchestration
>> paradigm. Finally, the last goal of this project was to build an easy to
>> embed module that could live in the docs to provide very lightweight
>> terminal sessions that users could use to review what portions of the docs
>> they were reading.
>>
>> Right now I've modeled just a hand full of lessons and only a few of the
>> juju commands have actually been implemented. As this is a spare time
>> project progress comes in chunks of time over the weekend and in the
>> evenings. However, if you're interested in piloting the demoware and shaking
>> out bugs please do so! You can view the lessons at http://juju.academy the
>> source code is https://github.com/marcoceppi/juju-academy and the issue
>> tracker is on that repo.
>>
>> Your juju environment(s) persist not only between lessons but also between
>> page visits. If at anytime you wish to start anew you can do so by issuing
>> the "reset" command in the terminal. I'm working on finishing
>> http://help.juju.academy which will have this and other FAQ/Guide like
>> questions to use the software. All Juju help can be found, as always, at
>> https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs
>>
>> This is also a call for help! Anyone interested in writing lessons, command
>> modules, fixing bugs, making this look nicer, etc - pull requests are
>> welcome! The entire project aims to be modular (in that this framework could
>> be used for non juju terminal lessons). Lessons are simply JSONP files that
>> contain a set number of keys and commands are functions that perform some
>> rudimentary validation.
>>
>> I eagerly await feedback and have had an immense amount of fun working on
>> this so far! I'll likely follow up with a more official announcement when
>> more of the commands have been implemented.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marco Ceppi
>>
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