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ARE YOU INTRIGUED BY THE WORLD OF WEB DEVELOPMENT?

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NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL

WEB DEVELOPMENT JUMPSTART

ARE YOU INTRIGUED BY THE WORLD OF WEB DEVELOPMENT?

PREREQUISITES:

  1. Chrome browser installed
  2. Register for a Slack account
  3. Register for a Codepen account ; Choose the Starter Monthly option for $12/mo - do not auto-renew!

CURRICULUM:

NASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL'S WEB DEVELOPMENT JUMPSTART CURRICULUM

SYLLABUS:

  • First day of class(can be covered over approx 4-5 hrs): Intro's, setup, cover material in both Class1 and Class2, : Session 1 slide deck

  • Second day of class(3 hours of classtime): Review of previous class, then cover material in Class 3. Session 2 slide deck

  • Third day of class(3 hours of classtime): Review, address any questions, then cover material in Class 4. Session 3 Slide deck

  • Fourth day of class(5 hours of classtime): Review class3 and cover material in class 4 Session 4 slide deck

  • Fifth day of class(3 hours of classtime): today we adjusted the syllabus on scheduling conflicts with guest speaker; So we are going to skip ahead and cover Class 6: JQUERY Session 5/Class6 slide deck

  • Sixth day (3hrs) Review and minichallenges 3 and 4 for the JQUERY lesson; then on to BOOTSTRAP

Ideas for improvements:

  • general preparations: Ensure nametags, desk tents, NSS swag/stickers are laid out for the incoming students and they know which classroom to go to

  • First day of class (Sat): Build a wireframe of the exercise, using escape characters to illustrate html elements, for example: < h1 > LOREMIPSUM < /h1 > WIREFRAME ADDED 11/2019

  • Second day of class (Mon): Illustrate a "before" and "after" version of the fabulous romper and okay door CSS exercise, so students can see what their goal is ; ADDED .jpg to class2/exercises.html DECEMBER 2019

  • Third day of class (Wed) (I was absent)

  • Fourth day of class improvements (Sat):

  • Fifth day of class improvements (Mon/jQuery): time management; we only made it through the first 2 mini challenges out of 4.