[tracking] CDK Workshop V2

[indrora]

Since there's been a lot of conversation about improvements to the CDK Workshop, let's talk about those so they dont' get lost to the sands of time.

The current outstanding updates to the current version of the CDK workshop include:

• A Spanish translation (tracked in Spanish Translation #1125 / Spanish Translation #1101 )
• Various fixes to the content:
  • fix: add deploy before destroy in all english docs #1132
  • fixing pulling of dotnet sdk #931
  • fix: cdk-dynamo-table-viewer version fails deployment due to unsupported node version #1140
  • Update cdk-dynamo-table-view example #1147
  • chore: Bump @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin from 5.61.0 to 6.6.0 in /cdkworkshop.com #1169
  • Python->Using Construct Libraries->Extra Credit bug #676
  • WorkshopPipeline fails to install dotnet-sdk-3.1 #693
  • Workshop description inaccurate #742
  • Japanese Screenshot on TypeScript Polish Pipeline Page #804
  • cdk-dynamo-table-viewer@0.2.46 fails deployment #1139
  • Workshop code is not matching import statements generated by CDK v2 #1049
  • Not all languages have a "deploy" before "destroy" step #1131
  • cdk-dynamo-table-viewer@0.2.46 fails deployment #1139
• Requests for improvement to the content overall:
  • Video intro #31
  • Prerequisites: Commands to verify #558
  • Add 'Best practices' section to CDK Workshop #367
  • Integrate helpful content from the CFN-CDK workshop in CDK workshop #409
  • Add alt text to images #648
  • Add Testing Section to the Workshop #1048 Add a workshop lab Integration Testing using @aws-cdk/integ-tests-alpha #1050
  • Add a lab to Advanced Topics for Aspects #1051

What the future of the CDK workshop looks like

I have half a mind to patch up the current content until it's "More or less correct" and make it considered the "Legacy" CDK Workshop. Take a majority of the current content, massage it down, and build it into the "Modern" CDK workshop.

This "Modern" CDK workshop would be divided into:

• Introductory content: Deploying a very simple bucket that you can then call PutObject and ListObjects on, with associated roles and such.
• Intermediate: Deploying a very simple container application that uses DynamoDB and some edge functions to have a page counter, built as a construct.
• Advanced: Deploying a CI/CD pipeline, running the CDK Construct Hub
• The Toolbox: Things that are useful to know, but don't have a "level" to them:
  • Aspects, Attributes, etc.
  • Mucking about with CloudFormation

What I want to know from the community

Given our current CDK workshop, where do you draw the lines between "intro/intermediate/advanced" topics? how would you re-design the CDK workshop today if you could?

[SamWSoftware]

I would add a few things for the TypeScript tutorial

• Use the SDK V3
• Use the NodejsFunction construct
• Use node 20 and ideally explain what to do if a future node version comes out

I've just created a PR into the v1 cdk workshop with these changes

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