Universal Dependencies - English - GENTLE

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Welcome to the Techtonica curriculum!

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Techtonica is a non-profit project of SocialGood that does free tech training and job placement for unemployed or underemployed folks.

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For more information, please see our website: Techtonica.org

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Program participants will learn to do full-stack web development using JavaScript.

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What bootcamps and Techtonica have in common is the fact that they are intensive training.

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However, bootcamps can be pretty passive classroom learning and they cost $15,000+ for the students.

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Techtonica aims to be more like the workplace to make the transition into the industry better—instead of having an instructor constantly guiding you (which you won’t have in any software engineering job), you are given a general schedule of topics and assignments (see our curriculum repo for an idea of the resources provided) and you’re expected to figure out what to do on your own or in collaboration with volunteers, mentors, tech groups, and other participants.

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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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Jump to Curriculum Table of Contents.

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Table of Contents

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The following is the approximate sequence of the topics during the program but is always being tuned and optimized so if you have questions, please open an issue.

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Week 0 - Pre - Work

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Week 1 - Onboarding & Developer Tools

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Week 2 - Webpages: HTML & CSS

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Week 3 - JavaScript Fundamentals

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Week 4 - Intermediate JavaScript and React

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Week 5 - Web APIs

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Week 6 - Databases

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Week 7 - Advanced JS and React

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Week 8 - Testing

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Week 9 - Eventonica Project

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Week 10 - More PERN & Review

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Week 11 - Data Structures & Algorithms

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Data Structures

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Algorithms

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Week 12 - Final Assessments

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Week 13 - Career Week!

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Week 14 - Project Prep Week & Electives

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Weeks 15+ - Final Project

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Week 0 - Pre - Work

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Before beginning the program, participants meet weekly for 4 weeks to learn JavaScript fundamentals.

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Participants should memorize common JavaScript built-in functions within the first month.

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Week 1 - Onboarding & Developer Tools

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1. Welcome, Tips, and Rules

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2. Expectations While at Techtonica

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3. How to Learn

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4. Professionalism

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5. Roles in Tech

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6. Intro to Command Line Interface Tools

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7. Advanced Command Line

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8. Bash Profile

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9. Vim

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10. Home brew

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11. How to Pair Program

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12. Project 0 - Week 1 Review

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13. Operating Systems

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14. Keyboard Shortcuts

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15. Ergonomics

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16. Growth Mindset

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17. Asking Good Questions

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18. Networking (Career)

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19. Chrome Developer Tools: Setup

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20. One of either: Living in Open Workspaces or Working Remotely depending on program status.

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21. HTML

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22. Intro to CSS

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23. JS HTML DOM Methods

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24. Debugging

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25. Recipe Page Project: HTML

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Week 2 - Webpages: HTML & CSS

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1. Git Version Control

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2. .gitignore

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3. Using GitHub for Code Storage

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4. GitHub Collaboration

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5. Operating Systems

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6. Local Development with VS Code

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7. Article: What Exactly is the DOM?

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8. How the Internet Works (The Other Kind of Networking)

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9. Intro to DNS

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10. Recipe Page Project: CSS

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11. Media Queries

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12. UI/UX

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13. Bootstrap

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14. Building Confidence

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15. Recipe Page Project: Bootstrap

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16. Solving Code Challenges

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17. Git Part 2: Study Guide

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18. Portfolio Project: HTML, CSS & Bootstrap

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19. Using GitHub for Project Collaboration

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20. Portfolio Project: Personal Branding

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21. Reading/Writing Documentation

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22. Writing Readable Code

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23. Deploy your Portfolio Project: Deploying Client - Side Apps with Netlify

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24. Portfolio Project: Collaboration and Review

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Week 3 - JavaScript Fundamentals

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1. JavaScript 1 - Variables, Strings, Numbers

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2. JavaScript 2 - Arrays, Functions

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3. JavaScript 3 - Conditionals, Comparisons, Booleans

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4. JavaScript 4 - Loops

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5. JavaScript 5 - Switch Statements

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6. JavaScript 6 - Object Literals

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7. Datetime

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8. Basic JavaScript Practice

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9. Testing & TDD

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10. Assigned Reading - Eloquent JavaScript

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Week 4 - Intermediate JavaScript and React

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1. JavaScript DOM Manipulation - formerly jQuery

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2. HTML/JS Game Project

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3. a11y: Accessibility

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4. SEO

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5. Portfolio Project: Incorporate SEO & a11y