Creating a Dedicated Development Environment for Teaching

Joe Previte, a TypeScript engineer at Coder who maintains code-server, is hosting another Meetup at their Austin Office. In this event, he will share tips and tricks on using Coder as a tool in his workflow for creating educational content. He uses Coder to provision software development environments via Terraform on various platforms, enabling developers to have full control of their development environment and use whichever 3rd party cloud resource they want. One of the most important features of Coder is its scheduled auto-on and auto-off features, which help keep costs low by automatically shutting off after an hour if there is no activity. Joe also highlights the importance of having a distraction-free IDE with accessible colors and legible fonts for teaching technical content effectively. He shares his experience using Coder workspaces as a dedicated workspace for teaching, allowing him to focus more on creating educational content.