Softie 101

Primary Training Goals

Get practice with ROS

• Create publisher and subscriber node: Old tutorial
• Do the ROS2 new tutorial Learning ROS2
• Service + custom msg, topic
• Build it with Colcon

Git and Github

• If you're unfamiliar with Git, check out Git Beginner Information
• If you're unfamiliar with Github, check out the Github Beginner Information
• Check out the Project Backlog
• Check out some closed Pull Requests to see how we do code reviews

Software Development Practices

• Check out the debug log here in the wiki
• Look at the development procedure, also here on the wiki Practice filling up the debug log, and following the development procedure in the development guide

Gazebo

• Install gazebo
• Learn to make simulation objects and control the sim through ROS
• Do the tutorial

Miscellaneous

• If you're planning to do UI tasks, check out ReactJsand Node/NPM (we use nvm)
• If you've never used Bash, check out Terminal/Bash // you can look into Tmux
• If you've never used Python or need a refresher, check out Python/OOP
• If you're planning to do sim tasks, we may end up using Unity