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Geekwise Academy Bootcamp 1 Course Curriculum

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Geekwise Academy BC1 Course Curriculum

Damon Thomas' - Bootcamp 1 Course Curriculum

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WEEK MONDAY & TUESDAY WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
1 DAY 1 DAY 2
Introductions
What is the Internet/the cloud?
What is HTML & CSS how they work together
What is a browser vs search engine
Open & Closed Carets or Tags < > < />
Codepen.io CODE PEN CODING
CODE PEN CODING: Clean coding or Nesting
HTML & CSS syntax
Build a micro page, blog style
Pixels as a unit of measurement
© and other HTML entities Why .io? input / output
Resources like w3schools.org
2 DAY 3 DAY 4
CODE PEN CODING: Building a mini website including navigation
Color theory HEX, RGB & RGBA
JPG vs PNG vs GIF vs SVG and their differences
How to pronounce GIF - Solved!
Branding and design best practices
Cloud 9 - Plan A
http://www.c9.io: Learn local & remote directory structure and organization
Create Home Page Wire Frame
What are IDEs?
3 DAY 5 DAY 6
Cloud 9 - Plan B
Photo shoot - Plan A
Finish coding our Home page
Github.com basics.
Photo shoot - Plan B
Inline vs Block Level elements
Finish coding our Home page
4 DAY 7 DAY 8
Photoshop Editing: Optimizing images for web.
Creative Commons: creativecommons.org
Royalty Free
Finish Home page and copy
Understanding fonts
What is Serif & Sans Serif?
Create About & Contact Pages
Write our CSS content
/* homework - maybe final */
5 DAY 9 DAY 10
Create About & Contact Pages
Write our CSS content
Add custom fonts - Plan A
Possibly learn how to add audio & video files
Embed Day: Add a YouTube video, Google map & contact form
Finish final CSS
Add custom fonts - Plan B
Add Google Analytics
/* homework */
6 DAY 11 DAY 12
Showcase Your Web Projects 7pm - 8pm PIZZA PARTY! and Code :-)

Example of HTML 5 Code

This is a basic example of the code students will learn to write.

<!doctype html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>HTML Tutorial</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <main>
            <section>
                <article>
                    <h1>This is a heading tag or element.</h1>
                    <p>This is a paragraph tag or element.</p>
                </article>
            </section>
        </main>
    </body>
</html> 

<!-- How the text is indented in HTML is important. -->

Example of CSS 3 Code

This is an example of the type of styles students will learn how to write.

p {padding:10px; margin:10px;}
.blackText {color:#000000; font-size:18px; font-weight:700;}

/* CSS can be written in the above sytnax or the syntax below. */

p {
    padding:10px;
    margin:10px;
}
.blackText {
    color:#000000;
    font-size:18px;
    font-weight:700;
}

URLs and URLs in angle brackets will automatically get turned into links. http://www.geekwiseacademy.com or http://www.geekwiseacademy.com.


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