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Overview and Timetable
6 Day in person course for 10 students. Tutor led. Goal is to get first website on the web.
Charity website:
Learning objectives
The students at the end of the course
Should have:
- Created a Github profile & commited code
- Created a live website using Vercel
- Created a fully functional online game - The Snake game
Should be able to:
- Use Visual Studio Code
- Be able to create a website with multiple pages: (using redirect & getting params from url)
- Be able to create a form using Bootstrap
- Know basic JS
- Know JS apis for button click, selecting elements
- ? Jquery (might be too much) - Leave out
- Find help on stackoverflow
Circulum & Timetable
Lesson structure mix of
- Guided Lecture & students do at same time (Workshop style)
- Lecture then mini project to check learnt do. Then present back to class. (Lecture style)
- Online course content from udacity
Day 1 (Monday): Intro & Basics (Html/Css)
Time
Activity
Description
8.45
Check-in/registration
9:00
Course Intro
9:10
Teachers Intro
9:30
Warmup/Student intros
Warmup games from improv classes. e.g Ball around everyone says name and what want to get out. Then do with 2 balls, then 3. Then 4
10:00
Workshop - Intro to HTML [
Ppt presentation
Setup VS studio
Create first webpage
12:00
Lunch
13:00
Workshop
Basics: html, css (part 1)
Drill home box model - margin, padding, pixels
15:30
Finish
Day 2 (Tues): Bootstrap
3 x 1.5hr sessions
30 mins break, 1 hour lunch break
Time
Activity
Description
8.45
Check-in/registration
9:00
Workshop I - Finish off More Html/CSS (part 2)
Finish off stuff from previous day
10:30
Break (30 minutes)
11:00
Workshop II - Bootstrap
Layout, Forms
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Workshop III - Bootstrap
Forms, Buttons, (optional) Nav bar
15:00
Team building activity Or Practise what learned
(like build paper tower)
15:30 or 16:00
Finish
Day 3 (Weds) & 4 (Thurs): Javascript
- Cover Js udacity course (see if can download offline) - Get as far as possible on it.
- Fizz Buzz game to test knowledge
Time
Activity
Description
8.45
Check-in/registration
9:00
Workshop I
10:30
Break (30 minutes)
11:00
Workshop II
12:30
Lunch (1 hr )
13:30
Workshop III
15:00
Recap what learned on day
(Get every student to come to front and talk for 2 minutes)
15:20 or 15:30
Finish
Day 5 (Fri): JS, Vercel deployment & Github
Time
Activity
Description
8.45
Check-in/registration
9:00
Workshop I
Self learning skills
10:30
Break (30 minutes)
11:00
Workshop II
Interacting with DOM
12:30
Lunch (1 hr )
13:30
Workshop III
Vercel & Github
15:00
Recap what learned on day
(Teacher gives summary, or students present snake games if not enough time in workshop)
15:15 or 15:30
Finish
Day 6 (Sat): Final Challenge
3 UK Volunteer mentors. 10am start
- Pair up students.
- 9-2.30pm to work together to create a login page and landing page for an ecommerce website of their choice.
- 2.30-3.30pm presentation. Each team 3 minutes. Closing speech and Announce winner: Lead
- Small Prize for winning team & best student on course
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