📅 Day plan

A scheduled plan of activities for a class day with times and breaks.

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  1. Energiser
  2. Placeholder Workshop
  3. Lunch
  4. Study Group 2
  5. Code Review
  6. Afternoon break
  7. Study Group 2
  8. Retro

This view builds an agenda for class days. We built this because we used to spend a lot of time making spreadsheets every single week and class days could get chaotic and disruptive to learning. Now everyone knows what to do when. Learners can plan things like prayers or medication. Volunteers can see when they’re needed. Everyone can see when they can take a break.

The day plan will create a schedule from the time (in minutes) stored on each block using the time-stamper web component. You can override this time on your day plan by adding a time parameter as shown in the front matter.

This view doesn’t expect any content in the .Content section, but it exists in case you need to put a temporary notice up that everyone will see. It’s for temporary content only. If you just want to add a description of the day, add it to a .Description parameter in the front matter.

We also now can find out who is in class with a simple register. By default, a register will show at the top of the agenda. This register is an auto-detected Netlify form. If you don’t want this, add noRegister=true to the front matter, as this example does.

Energiser

Every session begins with an energiser. Usually there’s a rota showing who will lead the energiser. We have some favourite games you can play if you are stuck.

  1. Traffic Jam: re-order the cars to unblock yourself
  2. Telephone: draw the words and write the pictures
  3. Popcorn show and tell: popcorn around the room and show one nearby object or something in your pocket or bag and explain what it means to you.

Placeholder Workshop 🔗

Workshop Name

Replace this readme with the requirements for your workshop

Learning Objectives

Requirements

Explain the requirements of the workshop. You might want to talk about goals here. You might want to use formal specifications like Given/When/Then. It’s ok for requirements to be in different formats. We want trainees to learn to interpret requirements in many settings and expressions. Just make sure your workshop is active and not a lecture.

Always write your workshop in a readme.md in a folder with the same name as the workshop. This makes it easy to find and easy to show on the curriculum website.

Acceptance Criteria

  • I have provided clear success criteria
  • These might be related to the objectives and the requirements
  • I have given some simple, clear ways for trainees to evaluate their work
  • I have run Lighthouse and my Accessibility score is 100

Community Lunch

Every Saturday we cook and eat together. We share our food and our stories. We learn about each other and the world. We build community.

This is everyone’s responsibility, so help with what is needed to make this happen, for example, organising the food, setting up the table, washing up, tidying up, etc. You can do something different every week. You don’t need to be constantly responsible for the same task.

Study Group

Learning Objectives

What are we doing now?

You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.

Use this time wisely

You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:

  • work through the coursework
  • ask questions and get unblocked
  • give and receive code review
  • work on your portfolio
  • develop your own projects

🛎️ Code waiting for review 🔗

Below are trainee coursework Pull Requests that need to be reviewed by volunteers.

1001 Bug: readme links not being cleaned 🔗

What does this change?

As per #1001, adds a new strings util to transform github readme api paths.

I’ve changed the format of a link on ITP> UFD > 1 > Dayplan to show this. This is how it worked before we broke it at some point, but I’ve done it in a more robust way now - I’ve hived it off into a separate, well commented partial that the data partial can call.

It is probably desirable to do this with most of the string transforms over time.

Common Theme?

Fixes #1001 readme regex

Issue number: #issue-number

Org Content?

UFD | 1 | Dayplan | Workshop

Checklist

Who needs to know about this?

Start a review
Add extra guidance on mentored pair programming 🔗

What does this change?

We want to specifically call out to volunteers that, unlike in other pair programming, they’re not meant to write code or say what code to write.

Org Content?

Pair programming guide

Checklist

Start a review
Move React to be an ITP track 🔗

What does this change?

This is re-organising it based on what prereq knowledge you need to do it, rather than how prepared you’ll be for a job having done it.

I’m not sure that’s correct. But it felt maybe useful. Thoughts welcome!

Org Content?

Moves a track.

Checklist

Start a review
replace scrimba with khan academy 🔗

What does this change?

This is a proposed replacement for Scrimba.

Pros:

you can complete it on a library computer it is 100% free with no upsells it has videos as well as interactive coding playgrounds it covers semantic html, devtools, deployment it can be done in 2.5 hours and will probably take 6-10 it’s not madly wrong

Cons

It’s old! This is the biggest con - it’s 9 years old The projects look crap You can’t type in the video like Scrimba

Overall, it’s the best replacement I’ve found. I looked at 15 possible courses:

w3schools, codeacademy, web.dev, mdn, html.com, educative, freecodecamp, htmldog, htmlacademy, brainstation, learnhtmlcss, learn-html, skillshop and coursera.

Basically the good ones have mega upsell problems. The bad ones are just long infodumps, or sometimes so wildly wrong it’s just unhelpful. Or break off into huge lectures about stuff the learner can’t possibly grok yet. Or teach emmet before teaching headings. Just - it’s a struggle you guys!

Org Content?

ITD | Step 3

If we like this, maybe we pair it with build a personal home page for step 4 and get a code review for step 5.

Checklist

Who needs to know about this?

Start a review
Rework DOM to better separate elements from events 🔗

What does this change?

Fixes https://github.com/CodeYourFuture/curriculum/issues/332

This way, we:

  • Fully handle accessing and setting DOM element properties in one chunk, then introduce events, rather than muddling the two together.
  • Identify that there are two common actions to do, and talk through identifying and addressing this.
  • Pull out the “what is the character limit” to be defined by the HTML attribute, rather than duplicated in the script.
  • Practice breaking down the “remaining characters” problem into sub-problems.
  • Generally solve things more incrementally.
  • Explicitly call out “do a clean-up refactoring” at the end.

Also some misc copy edits.

Common Content?

Yes - changes, reorders, and adds blocks to much of JS2.

Org Content?

Data Groups Sprint 3

Checklist

Start a review
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Afternoon Break

Please feel comfortable and welcome to pray at this time if this is part of your religion.

If you are breastfeeding and would like a private space, please let us know.

Study Group

Learning Objectives

What are we doing now?

You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.

Use this time wisely

You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:

  • work through the coursework
  • ask questions and get unblocked
  • give and receive code review
  • work on your portfolio
  • develop your own projects

Retro: Start / Stop / Continue

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A retro is a chance to reflect. You can do this on a FigJam (make sure someone makes a copy of the template before you start) or on sticky notes on a wall.

  1. Set a timer for 5 minutes. There’s one on the FigJam too.
  2. Write down as many things as you can think of that you’d like to start, stop, and continue doing next sprint.
  3. Write one point per note and keep it short.
  4. When the timer goes off, one person should set a timer for 1 minute and group the notes into themes.
  5. Next, set a timer for 2 minutes and all vote on the most important themes by adding a dot or a +1 to the note.
  6. Finally, set a timer for 8 minutes and all discuss the top three themes.