iofall/curriculum

The curriculum of Techtonica, a free tech training and job placement program for women and non-binary adults with low incomes.

Welcome to the Techtonica curriculum!

Techtonica is a non-profit project of SocialGood that does free tech training and job placement for unemployed or underemployed folks. For more information, please see our website: Techtonica.org

Apprentices will learn to do full-stack web development using JavaScript. What bootcamps and apprenticeships like Techtonica have in common is the fact that they are intensive training. However, bootcamps can be pretty passive classroom learning with students and they cost between $15,000 and $30,000.

An apprenticeship aims to be more like the workplace to make the transition into the industry better—instead of having an instructor constantly guiding you, a facilitator gives you assignments and you're expected to figure out what to do with volunteers, mentors, tech groups, and other apprentices. In the best-case scenarios, there are regular check-ins with managers and mentors provide support. We’re making Techtonica’s program as hands-on and project-based as possible to best prepare you for work in tech.

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Volunteering:

If you would like to contribute to the curriculum, please sign up here, then choose an issue in the to-do list.

Get started:

• Choose an issue from the TO-DO column that seems right for you & leave a comment for Techtonica staff. If you know someone connected to Techtonica, they may be able to add you to our slack channel. If you are here for GHC or Hacktoberfest, message Alina, Leah, or TaLea and say you'd like to pick up the issue.
• In the issue, you should find a link for a lesson outline and for corresponding slides.
• If it is in the "TO-DO" column, that means it is available, even if there's an "assignee".
• To create an outline, fork the repo or commit directly onto the master branch. Here is a topic outline template that explains what we need for each section.
• To edit a slideshow, you'll need to request edit permission by clicking View Only > Request Edit Access, or message Alina. If you are logged into an account ending in @gmail.com, you can simply make a copy, edit, and transfer ownership to [email protected] when you finish. Either way, save on top of the sample template used in the slide, and cut any slides you find unnecessary.
• To make a video, one effective solution has been to record your screen as you explain the lesson slides to the apprentices. An alternative can be a video found online that covers all the objectives of the lesson in a way suited to beginners.
• Here is an example of a great lesson trio: MongoDB Slides, MongoDB Lesson Outline, MongoDB Video.

While working:

• Comment in the issue if you have a question, or send a slack message.
• People are welcome to team up on an issue. If you see someone is already assigned but you want to help, leave the other assignee a message on the issue about collaborating.
• Please note the due date! Any amount of help is appreciated, but if the deadline approaches and you won't be able to complete it, please leave a comment about your progress and unassign yourself from the issue so someone else can pick it up. If you forked the repo, go ahead and make a pull request with what you have, and transfer ownership of a copied slideshow to [email protected].

Completed curriculum:

• Place a "completed" label on the issue once you've completed it, make a pull request to Techtonica/curriculum master, and leave comments about your work if you like. Grazie Mille!!

Table of Contents

Onboarding

1. Welcome, Tips, and Rules
2. Expectations While at Techtonica
3. How to Learn
4. Interpersonal Conflict Resolution
5. Diversity, Inclusion & Implicit Bias
6. Professionalism
7. Ergonomics
8. Roles in Tech
9. Tech Tips and Rules
10. Growth Mindset

Programmer Tools

1. Intro to Command Line Interface Tools
2. Advanced Command Line
3. Bash Profile
4. Vim
5. Operating Systems
6. Keyboard Shortcuts
7. Asking Good Questions
8. Local Development with VS Code
9. Networking
10. Interpersonal Conflict Resolution
11. How the Internet Works: Requests and Responses
12. Intro to DNS
13. Project 0 - Week 1 Assessment
14. How to Pair Program

Client-side Development && Confident Programming

1. HTML
2. Git Version Control
3. Recipe Page Project: HTML
4. .gitignore
5. Using GitHub for Code Storage
6. CSS
7. Article: What Exactly is the DOM?
8. Chrome Developer Tools: Setup
9. Recipe Page Project: CSS
10. Media Queries
11. UI/UX
12. Web patterns
13. Bootstrap
14. Building Confidence
15. Recipe Page Project: Bootstrap
16. Giving Presentations
17. Git Part 2: Study Guide
18. Portfolio Project: HTML, CSS & Bootstrap
19. Diversity, Inclusion, and Bias
20. a11y: Accessibility
21. SEO: Search Engine Optimization
22. Portfolio Project: Incorporating SEO & a11y
23. Using GitHub for Project Collaboration
24. Portfolio Project: Personal Branding
25. Reading/Writing Documentation
26. Writing Readable Code
27. Deploy your Portfolio Project: Deploying Client-Side Apps with Netlify
28. Portfolio Project: Collaboration and Review
29. JavaScript 1
30. JavaScript 2
31. Whiteboarding
32. Datetime
33. Whiteboarding Interview Challenges
34. JavaScript 3
35. JavaScript 4
36. JavaScript 5
37. JavaScript 6 - Object Literals
38. Runtime Complexity
39. Basic JavaScript Practice
40. Week 4 Assessment: Loops, Conditionals, Runtime Complexity
41. Javascript 7 - Object-Oriented Programming
42. Mini Project: Object Oriented Programming in JS
43. Event Search System with Javascript
44. Event Search System with Javascript - Part 2
45. Testing & TDD
46. Adding Jasmine Chai/Mocha Tests to your project
47. Javascript 8 - Regular Expressions / RegEx
48. Debugging
49. Javascript 9 - Callbacks and Promises
50. APIs & JSON
51. AJAX
52. Twilio Quest Exercise Outline
53. Data Visualization
54. Assessment 7.9: Data Visualization

Server-side Development && Agile Programming

1. NodeJS
2. ExpressJS
3. Data Models
4. .env & config
5. Data Models
6. SQL
7. Install PostgreSQL
8. Relational Databases
9. Table Relationships and Join Queries by Treehouse
10. Adding Tests to your NodeJS project
11. CRUD workshop: connect Node and sqlite3 with Sequelize by Treehouse
12. Week 7, Assessment #8 - Build a Minimal API Project
13. Database Migrations
14. Work through this tutorial: Setting up a RESTful API with Node.js and PostgreSQL by Tania Rascia
15. Treehouse: Introduction to REST APIs (do the whole course)
16. Do the first two sections of: REST APIs with Express (1.Getting to Know REST APIs & 2.Managing Data and Asynchronous Code)
17. Intro to Scrum
18. Eventonica Project
19. MongoDB
20. React Part 1
21. React Part 2
22. Enzyme Testing
23. Assessment #9.0: Add a feature to your eventonica-react app
24. Intro to Security in Web Development
25. Auth0
26. Assessment #9.5: Auth0
27. Deploying to Heroku with React and Node
28. Recursion
29. Memoization
30. Optimization
31. JS Hash Maps
32. Refactoring
33. Optimizing your React/NodeJS Project
34. Agile Project Management
35. Functional Programming
36. Assessment #10: Advanced Methods

Data Structures & Algorithms

1. Intro to Data Structures
2. Sprint Plan for Data Structures & Algorithms Week
3. Data Structures: Stacks
4. Data Structures: Queues
5. Data Structures: Deque
6. Data Structures: Linked Lists
7. Data Structures: Hash Tables
8. Data Structures: Trees
9. Intro to Algorithms
10. Algorithms: Searching
11. Algorithms: Sorting

Career Development && Final Project

1. Technical Interviewing
2. Assessment 11: Data Structures and Algorithms
3. Read this article on job hunting
4. Navigating New Codebases
5. Open-source Projects
6. Interviewing
7. Resume Writing
8. Read this article on Take-home Challenges by janephilipps
9. Front End Take-home Challenge
10. Back End Take-home Challenge
11. Technical Writing
12. Career Week: Machine Learning Engineer
13. Career Week: Entrepreneurship
14. Career Week: Data Science
15. Career Week: Security
16. Career Week: QA Engineer
17. Career Week: Developer Advocate
18. Career Week: Sales Engineering
19. Career Week: Technical Program Manager
20. Final Project: Selecting Your Final Project
21. Final Project: 5 weeks
22. Mobile Development
23. Resources: Women in Tech
24. Difficult Workplace Situations
25. Financial Literacy
26. Negotiating
27. Ethics in Software Engineering

Optional Resources:

• Sass
• Python

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