Breakout W1D1

Intro

Hey, I'm DOM

Confidence Level of a Programmer (Joke)

Confidence Level of a Programmer (joke)

1- I can’t fix this

2- Crisis of confidence

3- Questions career

4- Questions life

Michael Jordan's Quote

Curriculum Overview

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What are Lectures and Breakouts

Lectures

Everyday from 9am-11am

• Be there

• You need to attend

• More code demonstration

• Focused on the approach

  • Problem Solving
  • Step by step incremental development
  • Error driven development

• I'd like to give the context, why?

• Mix a theory and practice

• Engaging and inspiring

• You need to ask questions and participate

• Take notes with markdown

• Not for

  • Coding along session
  • Do your regular activities at the same time

• Lecture notes and recording will be sent via Compass

Breakouts

Mondays and Tuesdays from 3pm-4pm

• Breakout sessions on Mondays and Tuesdays at 3pm
• Hands-on coding session on a specific topic, examples, exercises

What are you here to learn

• Coding skills, technologies such as JavaScript NodeJS/Express, Ruby on Rails, but it's more than that

• Do coding skills alone ensure that you are a good developer?

• Motivation (passion)
• Resilience, perseverance
• Problem solving
• Curiosity
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Adaptability (Learning new skills, adapting to changes)
• Positive attitude
• Willingness to grow and learn, having a growth mindset (talent can be developed), learn from others

You're more than coders. You're actually a communicator. You communicate your vision through code.

Tips

• Comparing to ourselves vs others
• Keep going and never give up
• Don't do it later
• Practice
• Provide feedback, talk to staff, mentors
• 15 minutes rule
• Help one another

• disclaimer: the first few weeks are going to feel very intense!

Tools

Terminal (command-line) / Vagrant

Vagrant

command	description
vagrant up	load vagrant
vagrant ssh	connect to your vagrant machine
exit	logout
vagrant halt	stop vagrant

Terminal

command	description
cd	change directory
ls	list
mkdir	make directory
touch filename	create a file
mv	move, use it to copy and rename
pwd	display the current path

** use your tab key **

• type clear or Control-L to clear the screen

Code Editor (VS Code, Sublime, Atom, etc)

• Shortcuts

Learn to use shortcuts

• VS Code Cheat Sheet

• Sublime Cheat Sheet

• Useful Add-Ons:

  • Prettier
  • Linter
  • Bracket Matching
  • Coloring for other file extentions

Google

• Find answers to your question
  • Stack Overflow

Markdown

-Markdown CheatSheet

• Take notes using markdown

Folder Structure

• w1d1

Organize Your Screen

• Make sure you have enough screen real estate!

Version Control

• What, Why git?

  • Repositories (one repo per projects)
  • Save milestones
  • Keeps an history of your code (commits)
  • Backup copy on github
  • Work better as teams, branches

• Do use git

• Don't make backend into other folder

• You will have to use git in team projects

Git Commands

• git workflow

  • add files to staging area
  • commit changes
  • update github

• git status

• git add .

• git commit -m "message"

• git remote -v (or add origin, rm origin)

• git push

• git pull

• git log

Exercises

GitHub

• Create a new project on GitHub

  • Create the repo and initialize with Readme
  • Edit the Readme: description, features, etc.

• Organize your folders

  • Git clone

• Git commands

  • git status