Several members of the Keyman team work out of the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia (NPIC), វិទ្យាស្ថានជាតិពហុបច្ចេកទេសកម្ពុជា, in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.
One of the things the Keyman team tries to do is to give support to the Computing department of the NPIC by providing regular in-services and seminars, and we are now starting to run an internship program. We have just finished the first intern project with a group of four 3rd year computer science students, Kheng Kimleang, Soy Sreyvy, Hav MengHeng, and Tan Nguonnyny.
In a 10 week program, our intrepid interns took on the task of cleaning up the structure and format of the help.keyman.com documentation site — in particular, refreshing many, many outdated pages written in PHP/HTML and replacing them with clean and modern Markdown content.
“Committing PRs is scary but it’s worth it when they get approved without errors.”
– Nguonnyny
In the process, our interns learned a lot about working in a professional software team, and gained experience in a number of technologies, including:
- Markdown and PHP/HTML formats for documents
- Docker, for hosting the website for local testing
- Git and GitHub, for managing code changes and sharing patches
- Pandoc, for converting HTML to Markdown
