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Bootcamp Prep

Bootcamp Prep: On the Job Training!

Welcome to Bootcamp Prep! We're going to spend five nights giving you practical "how-to" training on getting setup and using your tools like a professional developer.

This will include:

  1. The terminal window (command line)
  2. Using Github and git to manage code
  3. Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
  4. Working with HTML and CSS
  5. Working with JavaScript
  6. Integrating JavaScript with HTML and CSS

By the end of this week you'll have leveled up your development skills!

Nightly Schedule

Time Agenda
6:00 - 6:05 Intro/Review
6:05 - 6:10 Keyboard Shortcuts
6:10 - 6:40 Topic A + Try It Out
6:40 - 6:45 Retrospective
6:45 - 7:15 Topic B + Try It Out
7:15 - 7:20 Retrospective
7:20 - 8:00 Break
8:00 - 8:35 Topic B
8:35 - 8:45 Commit
8:45 - 9:00 Nightly Retrospective

Day-by-Day Agendas

Nightly Agenda

Monday

Topic Notes
Intro On the job training
Keyboard Let your fingers do the talking
Terminal Your developer portal!
Github/Git Managing Code
Git/VSCode Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
Markdown Write docs the developers way
Commit Checking in work
Retro What's working? What isn't? What can we change?

Tuesday

Topic Notes
Review Using your dev tools
Keyboard Let your fingers do the talking
Html Pages Structured presentation
Html Presenting content
CSS Styling content
Commit Checking in work
GHPages Show the world!
Retro What's working? What isn't? What can we change?

Wednesday

Topic Notes
Review Web pages
Keyboard 3 Working with text
JS in Browser <script> and DevTools
JS Syntax Evaluate the basics
Control Flow Managing variation and repetition
Input Output Built-in input and output
Commit Checking in work
Retro What's working? What isn't? What can we change?

Thursday

Topic Notes
Review Using JavaScript
button/input basic user input
functions/onclick Saving code for later
read DOM Finding and reading values from inputs
write DOM Updating content
Commit Checking in work
Retro What's working? What isn't? What can we change?

Friday

Topic Notes
Review Plus pizza and beverages
Guest Panel Chat and Q&A with an ACL alums
Wrap-up Q&A, discussion, next steps
Retro What's working? What isn't? What can we change?

Resources