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Announcement Irène Mykhailova · Mar 10

[Sweepstakes] Suggest topics for our next free hands-on tutorials!

Hi Community!

We’re building a series of short, hands-on Instruqt tutorials to help newcomers get up to speed with InterSystems technologies faster and more effectively. To kick things off, we’ve just released a new tutorial, “Data Models of InterSystems IRIS,” covering the fundamentals of the IRIS multimodel approach. This is exactly the type of focused, concise, practical learning experience we want to expand. And this is where you come in!

We’d love to hear your ideas for other tutorial topics to help developers new to InterSystems IRIS take their first steps with confidence. Please welcome the new sweepstakes:

💡 Topics for hands-on Instruqt Tutorials 💡


 

📝 To take part in this sweepstakes, follow these simple steps:

  • Be a member of the Ideas Portal (just log in using your SSO)
  • Create a new idea
  • Select the category Tutorials
  • Describe your suggestion in as much detail as possible, including:
    • Tutorial topic
    • Learning objectives (what the learner should be able to do at the end, e.g., “Create X”, “Query Y”, “Configure Z”)
    • Target audience (e.g., completely new to IRIS, SQL developers new to IRIS, etc.)
    • Value of this tutorial for the target audience
    • Any related materials or references
  • Share the link and the title of your idea in the comments below so others can see it too

That’s all! At the beginning of April, we’ll use a randomizer to choose one lucky participant who will receive a special prize 🎁 

Even more importantly, the strongest ideas may become official Instruqt tutorials used by developers worldwide.

Let’s close the gaps together and make learning InterSystems technologies more accessible for everyone.

We’re looking forward to your creative and practical ideas! Good luck ☘️


Notes:

  • Duplicate ideas will not be accepted. Make sure your submission is unique.
  • InterSystems employees are welcome to participate.
  • We reserve the right to moderate the ideas - the moderators' decision is final.
  • Here's a short guide on how to submit an idea.
  • Pst, the more ideas you submit, the higher your chance of getting a prize 🤗

Comments

Irène Mykhailova  Mar 13 to Udo Leimberger

Hi @Udo Leimberger! This is a great suggestion. Could you please create an idea on the Ideas Portal and provide more details? This will also enable you to participate in the sweepstakes 🙂

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Guilherme Silva · Mar 13

An IRIS docker/kubernetes quick start with some tunning

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Irène Mykhailova  Mar 13 to Guilherme Silva

Hi @Guilherme Silva! Sounds like it could be a useful tutorial. Could you please create an idea on the Ideas Portal and provide more details? This will also enable you to participate in the sweepstakes 🙂

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Craig Bishop · Mar 20
  1. FHIR electronic prior authorization workflow
  2. API Manager
  3. Using embedded Python to develop
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Irène Mykhailova  Mar 23 to Craig Bishop

Thanks for your great ideas for the topics. To participate in the sweepstakes, please create an idea on the Ideas Portal and provide more details.

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Mindy Caldwell · Mar 23

build a utility class in ObjectScript. i.e. class has no properties  just a series of methods to do generic-ish things

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Mindy Caldwell  Mar 27 to Irène Mykhailova

I'm really looking for a tutorial type article.  I'm in the process of a long conversion of our application from  a multivalue based approach to an objectscript approach.  Currently the application has a directory/file of MVbasic subroutines that are called by the application's Rest API and I want to move all that functionality into ObjectScript and make it editable in VSCode in one (or multiple) classes.

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There's still one week left for you to share what Instruqt tutorial is an absolute must. But for now, we have these 14 great ideas:

Idea name

Idea created by

How to build a utility class in ObjectScript Tutorial @Mindy Caldwell
Hands On JSON Parsing Tutorial @Scott Roth
Hands-On Tutorial for Using Source Control with Git and VS Code @Juan Mota Sanchez 
Using embedded Python to develop @Craig Bishop
API Manager @Craig Bishop
FHIR electronic prior authorization workflow @Craig Bishop
"Hello world" in ObjectScript @Iryna Mykhailova
An IRIS docker/kubernetes quick start with some tunning @Guilherme Silva
Docker Quickstart @Udo Leimberger
Unit tests tutorial - VS Code Tutorial @Andre Larsen Barbosa
Real-Time Clinical Pathway Monitoring via FHIR Event Subscriptions Tutorial @Kate Lau
Building a Secure SMART on FHIR Foundation Tutorial @Kate Lau
VS Code QuickStart for IRIS Tutorial @Vishal Pallerla 
FHIR Server QuickStart Tutorial @Tani Frankel

Suggest which tutorial we should add to our roster, and get a chance to win a prize.

Don't miss this opportunity!

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Xander Modig · Apr 9

I want nothing more than a SIMPLE to follow guide on how to setup this EASILY. I am a total newbie regarding InterSystems and am OVERWHELMED by the very hard to follow instructions (https://docs.intersystems.com/). I have struygled for two days and still havent managed to even start coding due to issues that appear. This is not what I expected whenh my manager told me to learn something '...great...' called InterSystems (I am a BizTalk developer but need to soon change career). It has been anything BUT great, my initial run in with InterSystems. Considering how much money you have, is it too much to ask for an installer with a Wizard that sets everything up? 

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Gabriel Ing  Apr 13 to Xander Modig

Hi Xander, sorry that its been so difficult for you! I understand that the documentation can be overwhelming. IRIS is a massive platform with different use cases and technical set-ups, it can be difficult to find the right one to get started quickly. 

We have quickstart guides available on developer.intersystems.com which you might find useful, including: 

There are also lot courses available from Learning Services which just require a free account. 

I understand there is an overwhelming amount of resources and it can be difficult to find what you need, so feel free to send me a DM here and I can try to point you towards other resources you may find useful.

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