Test Flight: A Dart Flight School Codelab

Gone were the days when Jelly Bean and KitKat were once thought of as sweets instead of Android operating systems. Not only those. Did you know that Dart, traditionally known as a kind of target game, could also refer to a web development framework by Google? In first-ever codelab held on February 15, 2015 at Berkeley School Baguio, GDG Baguio introduced Dart into the local developer community.

The participants, a mix of professionals, college and high school students, became Dart Pilots and were introduced to Dart, a new web programming language with libraries, a virtual machine called Dart Virtual Machine, and tools. Dart helps developers build structured modern web apps and compiles to JavaScript to run across the entire modern web. (https://code.google.com/p/dart/)

Registration

Sunny Natividad discussing Google Technologies

The event commenced with an introduction about Google Developer Group (GDG) Baguio by +Sunny Natividad, our resident organizer and speaker. Dart and codelabs were then introduced to the participants through videos and slides by +Reymart Canuel, GDG Baguio's Community Manager. 

After all was said and done, the codelabs began. Darrrt!

Codelab 1

Codelab 2

What better way is there to refuel our pilots' energy? Pizza!

Special thanks to Berkeley School Baguio and +Aris Go for providing us our venue. Thanks too to the organizers and supporters! 

Look how happy our Dart Pilots are! (photo courtesy of +Aldreen Dumasig )

Anyone could also try the codelabs through :   

Codelab 1: https://www.dartlang.org/codelabs/darrrt/

Codelab 2: https://www.dartlang.org/codelabs/deploy/

You could check the G+ event page here.

Fly high!  See you in the next codelabs and events to come!

Get ready to fly high with Dart Flight School - Codelab Baguio!

About the Event

With support from Google Developers, +GDG Baguio is bringing you Dart Flight School Codelab Baguio. This event would introduce Dart as a web development framework. This event would be our first community codelab.

Get ready to fly!

About Dart

"Dart helps you build modern web apps with a new language, core libraries, and tools such as a package manager, editor, and a compiler to JavaScript. Use Angular with Dart for extra jet fuel."
For more information visit: https://www.dartlang.org

Registration

Please register here.

Venue

Berkeley School, 30 Navy Base Rd, Baguio City 2600, Philippines.

You could also visit our Google+ Event Page.

2013 GDG Baguio Highlights

2013 has been an awesome year for the GDG Baguio community.

The following are the events and highlights of the year.

Android and Google Maps API v3 Workshop

February 9, University of Baguio, 62 attendees, Google+

BSU Google Apps Script Student Workshop

February 12, Benguet State University, 17 attendees, Google+

BSU Google Maps API v3 Student Workshop

February 14, Benguet State University, 16 attendees, Google+

Find Your Voting Precinct MapUp

April 17, Bayleaf Restaurant, Kisad Road, Baguio City, 7 attendees, Google+

Google I/O Extended | "Under the Stars" - Baguio

May 15, Berkeley School Baguio, 25 attendees, Google+

Philippine Transit App Challenge (PTAC) Bootcamp

July 16, Azalea Residences Baguio, 34 attendees, Google+

Baguio City MapUp - Sept 20

September 20, Berkeley School Baguio, 14 attendees, Google+

Google Cloud Developer Challenge (GCDC) Kick-off Meetup

October 10, Azalea Residences Baguio, 10 attendees, Google+

This year, we are also proud that we had a representative who went through the finals of the Google Cloud Developer Challenge - Harries Hernandez with his Scout Project.

DevFest Cordillera - Baguio

November 9, Azalea Residences Baguio and Berkeley School Baguio, 117 attendees, Google+

Google Code-In Baguio Meetup

December 20, Azalea Residences Baguio, 32 attendees, Google+

2013 Numbers

In summary,

Total Number of Attendees: 334
Total Number of Events: 10
Average Number of Attendees per event: 33

Looking Forward

2013 wouldn't be as exciting and as successful without your awesome participation and with the support of our partners and Google communities!

In 2014, we shall go beyond just the numbers. This year, we envision to have more community participation and involvement by organizing fun and engaging events. We also seek to involve more Baguio IT professionals, developers and educators alike, in our events.

We are seeing more collaboration most especially with the different Google communities in Baguio -- Google Business Group and Google Educators Group.

GDG Baguio Community will still serve as a venue for new fun, learning, collaboration, and participation on Google Technologies in 2014. Please stay synced on our Google+ Page for more events and updates this 2014!

Stay awesome like Google!

See you!