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Web Development Immersive

Welcome WDI 10!

Meet Your Instructors

  • Dirk Dunn
  • Britney Jo
  • Mike Dang

TA

  • Kollin Brandenburg

Britney Jo

Class Culture

  • Collaborative, not competitive
  • Learning to learn vs. learning to memorize
  • Self guided learning; take the initiative
  • What you put into this course is what you get out of it
  • Be good to your classmates, they're part of your network
  • Participate! Public speaking and sharing your thoughts are a huge part of being a developer, practice now while you're in a safe environment with people who want to help you

The Emotional Cycle of Change

Don Kelley and Daryl Conner's model outlines the five emotional stages that most people go through during voluntary change.

Your Mindset

Growth mindset vs. fixed mindset

Dirk

Graduation Requirements

  • Not absent more than 3 days
  • Arriving late 4 times is counted as an absence
  • 80% of homework completed

It's imperative that you're in class and on time; everything we do in the course builds on itself, so missing even a little bit sets you back in the future as well.

Messaging and Communication

  • For informal communication that doesn't need to be private, use Slack - even if you think it's a silly question, someone else probably has the same question
  • If you need to talk to the instructors privately, please Slack the instructors in your private channel or bring it up during 1-on-1's
  • If you have a code question, make sure you've Googled the problem, you've tried to implement a couple of solutions, and you've asked another student; then, if it's not solved, come to the instructor with a well formed question

Tools Used

  • GitHub Class Repo
    • In-class exercises
    • Starter code
    • Instructor notes
  • Slack
  • Garnet

BREAK

Project Schedule + Curriculum

  • Unit 1: Front-end Development
  • Unit 2: Back-end Development
    • Project Week (UXDI Collaboration)
    • Project Presentation
  • Unit 3: Front-end Frameworks
    • Project Week
    • Project Presentation
  • Unit 4: Python, SQL
    • Final Project Week
    • Project Presentation

Daily Schedule

  • 9:00 - 9:45 Morning Exercise
    • Outcomes on Wednesday mornings
  • 9:45 - 10:00 Break
  • 10:00 - 1:00 Morning Lesson
  • 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
  • 2:00 - 5:00 Afternoon Lesson

Office Hours

Monday - Thursday

5:00pm - 5:30pm

Excludes project weeks

Dates

February 27 - May 26

Days Off

  • SXSW (March 13-17)

Let's get to know each other!

Meet Your Classmates

  • Name
  • What were you doing before this?
  • What do you hope to do with your new skills in 12 weeks?
  • Guilty pleasure

Icebreaker

Two Truths and a Lie

Rules

Icebreaker

Rock Paper Scissors Extreme

Rules

Installfest

https://github.com/GA-WDI/installfest

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