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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 & message 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 GSSoC19, message Alina L. (M) 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 [e-mail] 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 [e-mail].

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. Chrome Developer Tools: Setup
8. Recipe Page Project: CSS
9. Media Queries
10. UI/UX
11. Web patterns
12. Bootstrap
13. Building Confidence
14. Recipe Page Project: Bootstrap
15. Giving Presentations
16. Git Part 2: Study Guide
17. Portfolio Project: HTML, CSS & Bootstrap
18. Diversity, Inclusion, and Bias
19. a11y: Accessibility
20. SEO: Search Engine Optimization
21. Portfolio Project: Incorporating SEO & a11y
22. Using GitHub for Project Collaboration
23. Portfolio Project: Personal Branding
24. Reading/Writing Documentation
25. Writing Readable Code
26. Deploy your Portfolio Project: Deploying Client-Side Apps with Netlify
27. Portfolio Project: Collaboration and Review
28. JavaScript 1
29. JavaScript 2
30. Whiteboarding
31. Datetime
32. Whiteboarding Interview Challenges
33. JavaScript 3
34. JavaScript 4
35. JavaScript 5
36. JavaScript 6 - Object Literals
37. Runtime Complexity
38. Basic JavaScript Practice
39. Week 4 Assessment: Loops, Conditionals, Runtime Complexity
40. Javascript 7 - Object-Oriented Programming
41. Mini Project: Object Oriented Programming in JS
42. Event Search System with Javascript
43. Event Search System with Javascript - Part 2
44. Testing & TDD
45. Adding Jasmine Chai/Mocha Tests to your project
46. Javascript 8 - Regular Expressions / RegEx
47. Debugging
48. Javascript 9 - Callbacks and Promises
49. APIs & JSON
50. AJAX
51. Twilio Quest Exercise Outline
52. Data Visualization
53. 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. Relational Databases
8. Adding Tests to your NodeJS project
9. Week 7, Assessment #8 - Build a Minimal API Project
10. Database Migrations
11. Intro to Scrum
12. Eventonica Project
13. MongoDB
14. React Part 1
15. React Part 2
16. Enzyme Testing
17. Intro to Security in Web Development
18. Auth0
19. Assessment #9.0: Add a field to your Eventonica User
20. Assessment #9.5: Auth0
21. Deploying to Heroku with React and Node
22. Recursion
23. Memoization
24. Optimization
25. Refactoring
26. Optimizing your React/NodeJS Project
27. Agile Project Management
28. Functional Programming
29. 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. Navigating New Codebases
4. Open-source Projects
5. Interviewing
6. Resume Writing
7. Front End Take-home Challenge
8. Backend take home exercise
9. Technical Writing
10. Career Week: Machine Learning Engineer
11. Career Week: Entrepreneurship
12. Career Week: Data Science
13. Career Week: Security
14. Career Week: QA Engineer
15. Career Week: Developer Advocate
16. Career Week: Sales Engineering
17. Career Week: Technical Program Manager
18. Final Project: Selecting Your Final Project
19. Final Project: 5 weeks
20. Mobile Development
21. Resources: Women in Tech
22. Difficult Workplace Situations
23. Financial Literacy
24. Negotiating
25. Ethics in Software Engineering

Optional Resources:

• Sass
• Python

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