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title = "App School Live"
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date = "2022-06-29"
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description = "We’re running a cohort class of App School to teach you how to build Urbit applications."
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[extra]
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author = "N E Davis"
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ship = "~lagrev-nocfep"
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image = "https://media.urbit.org/site/posts/essays/blog-asl-header-iron-hot.png"
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What should you do after Hoon School? Well, presumably you've become interested
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in building apps on Urbit, and certainly knowing the language is a prerequisite.
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But apps require knowing the platform as a platform—what system services and
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affordances exist, how to hook up a front-end user interface, and how to build
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apps that interoperate with each other. What will it take to (metaphorically)
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terraform Mars?
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The Urbit Foundation offered Hoon School Live as a reboot of previous live Hoon
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educational efforts, including Hooniversity and Hoon 101. HSL consisted of
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synchronous livestream sessions, homework, and office hours, and concluded with
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a competition (on the results of which more soon). 61 participants completed
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HSL and received finisher [`%gorae`](https://github.com/dalten-collective/gora).
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In July, the Urbit Foundation will follow up HSL with App School Live, another
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synchronous cohort class based on the App School guides (formerly known as the
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Gall Guides). We will cover the structure of an Urbit backend app, Urbit OS
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system calls, app coordination across multiple ships, how to build a front-end,
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and more.
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Most—but not all—Urbit app development has focused thus far on social media and
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cryptocurrency applications. This makes sense, and it's a strength of the
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current Urbit platform primitives. But so much more is possible: games, of
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course, but also life management, instrumentation, CLIs, data visualization, and
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so forth. With Urbit's peer-to-peer distribution system, there are no
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gatekeepers, and anyone can start their own app store.
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At the same time as ASL, the Urbit Foundation is holding a
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[hackathon](https://airtable.com/shr2tYQ0dDjt97Gn4) with prizes
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to be unveiled at [Assembly Miami](https://assembly.urbit.org). We're excited
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to see what you're going to build. If you're not sure how to produce your
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vision yet, start with App School Live and then peruse the submissions for
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current [grant projects](https://urbit.org/grants) to see how others are
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successfully building apps.
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If you are interested in participating in App School Live, drop us a line at
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[this registration
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form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxAEdcdaLG_yK3RCOCLLScslcyjhBmAN2qUqHLajwSMgT-lw/viewform)
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or join us on Mars at [~hiddev-dannut/new-hooniverse](https://urbit.org/groups/~hiddev-dannut/new-hooniverse). We'll start on Tuesday,
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July 12 and run through August 23.
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