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BootcampSpot Dynamic Syllabus

“A better spot for bootcamp”

	Table of Contents
I.	Proposal
II.	Team Members
III.	Tools
IV.	File Tree
V.	Contributions

Proposal

Issue

Mandated learning resources, lesson prep materials, and the course syllabus (and their attendant learning objectives) are contradictory in places, under curated in others, and wholly fragmented if not altogether absent.

BootcampSpot is a hollow and two-dimensional tool as it exists, but one which we believe offers a platform and framework to solve the above issues. By extending BootcampSpot’s ‘Week Sessions’ calendar our team can greatly enhance the learning experience for the course’s students, and the teaching experience for it’s instructors and TAs.

Fix

Consolidate student and instructor interaction more centrally to BootcampSpot by extending the functionality of the ‘Sessions’ syllabus. To achieve this we will give the instructor/TAs greater backend or ‘admin’ options toward customizing the syllabus and session specific ‘card’ to enable students to not only log their attendance, but interact with the card dynamically. This can be from posting lesson prep-work and/or resources, to having the students be able to rate that resource and/or post their own resources as they pertain to that lesson. Other things, from a “Raise Hand” button that would alert a TA in real-time as to the student's question, while still enabling instruction to progress, to the hosting of the recorded lesson stream, to the monitoring of student engagement in the lesson via a “page focus” script, are actively being explored as well.

Team

Jennifer Reilly

Graphic & UI Design

Alex Pugh

Front-end Development

Tom Dolphin

Front-end Development

Cody Crozier

Back-end Development

Tools

Node.js
- Body-Parser - translate various formats
- Express.js
  - Handlebars - templating engine for student profiles and instructor/admin dashboards
  - Sequelize - manipulating MySQL tables
- Moment.js - user session tracking
- MySQL - linking to database
MySQL Database - to capture users, resources, interaction
Bootstrap 4 - HTML/CSS frameworks
OAuth (GitHub) - login and administering of privileges
Electron - multi-platform usability (desktop or in-browser)
GitHub - repository for versioning and project cards
Google Drive - doc coordination and hosting
Slack Channel (private) - team communication
Draw io - mockups and wireframes for site, user flow, and database organization
Chatkit - on-site and/or in-app chat

File Tree

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- app.js
- node_modules
- package.json
- package-lock.json
- README.md
- public
  - images
  - javascripts
    - scripts.js
  - stylesheets
    - style.css
- routes
  - index.js
  - users.js
- views
  - index.handlebars
    - layouts
      - main.handlebars
    - partials

Contribution Policy

GitHub Flow

GitHub Flow is a simple and effective branching strategy which the folks at GitHub use. Most teams actually do not need everything GitFlow gives them and are much better off with a simpler workflow.

GitHub Flow is in a nutshell:

Update master to latest upstream code
Create a feature branch git checkout -b myFeatureBranch
Do the feature/work
Push feature branch to origin
Create pull request from origin/ -> upstream/master
Review, fix raised comments, merge your PR or even better, get someone else to.

The main rule of GitHub Flow is that master should always be deployable. GitHub Flow allows and encourages continuous delivery.

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