Building Learning Applications with Tsugi

These tutorials walk through the various topics and exercises to learn how to develop with Tsugi. If you login and do the exercises you will earn Mozilla Open Badges.

1: Overview of Tsugi

This gives some context around what Tsugi is and why Tsugi is being developed.

2: Using Tsugi Apps in a Learning System

TsugiCloud provides free hosting for open source Tsugi tools. Teachers can use TsugiCloud tools in their Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Google Classroom for free. Developers can submit their tools to TsugiCloud for free hosting and use by teachers. Developers can also host their own Tsugi app store if they like.

3: Pre-Requisite: Learning PHP and MySQL

If you don't know how to use PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript, to build web applications, we recommend you take 'Web Applications for Everybody'. You can earn a certificate on Coursera or take the course at our free online web site.

4: Installing PHP and SQL

The first task is to work through the installation steps including installing a text editor, installing MAMP or XAMPP (or equivalent), creating a MySql Database, and writing a PHP program. There are separate instructions for (1) Macintosh, (2) Windows, and (3) Bash on Windows-10.

5: Join the Tsugi Developer List

It is a great idea to join the Tsugi Developers list to get help and notifications about the project.

6: Installing Tsugi

The first task is to work through the installation steps including installing a text editor, installing MAMP or XAMPP (or equivalent), creating a MySql Database, and writing a PHP program.

7: Building the Attendance Tool

This is a series of videos about developing a Tsugi tool in PHP. You should watch the first two videos before watching videos 3-5 so you understand how a tool functions within Tsugi and how the Tsugi APIs are set up and function. Video 3 covers Handlebars, and video 4 shows a single page Tsugi Application using the tmpljs templating language.

8: Tsugi Data Model

In these four lectures, we look at the detail of the Tsugi Database Model.

9: Tsugi in Python (Emerging)

I have started the development of pytsugi. For now it only supports Web2Py - in time it will support other Python web frameworks as interest emerges.