Intro to Programming JavaScript Fundamentals Sprint 3 Backlog

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These tasks should be completed before attempting anything else.

Enrol as a Trainee 🔗 Clone

Task code

CYF-1038 - make sure to include this in your PR title or description.

Instructions to follow soon

Recurring Tasks

These tasks need to be completed in every sprint.

Attend a demo session 🔗 Clone

Task code

CYF-1033 - make sure to include this in your PR title or description.

Presenting information is really important. You need to start practicing giving demos.

During this module, you must attend at least one demo session. We highly recommend you give at least one demo in a demo session, as well. We recommend you come to more, and give more. Your demo can be on anything you want. You can attend this demo session in any sprint. After this module, you will be required to give at least one demo per module.

There are demo sessions every Tuesday evening and Friday morning. They are advertised on Slack.

Aim for a 5 minute demo. But your demo must be at least 1 minute and at most 10 minutes long. Check out our guide about presenting.

You will need to attach a screenshot when submitting your Step for this Module. Make sure to take a screenshot of you on the call, showing that one of the following members of the CYF team was on your call:

Daniel Wagner-Hall
Karen Klein
Colin Farquhar
Poonam Rajput
Léon McGregor
Peter Mudra
Liam Greenfield

If you are not available during any of the demo times, please message on Slack to arrange an alternate time.

Do the Prep 🔗 Clone

Task code

CYF-1034 - make sure to include this in your PR title or description.

Link to the coursework

https://curriculum.codeyourfuture.io/itp/onboarding/sprints/1/prep

Why are we doing this?

https://curriculum.codeyourfuture.io/how-this-works/sprints/self-educate/prep/#importance-of-prep

The first thing you should do every week is the prep. The prep will help you do everything else. The prep teaches you the main concepts of the week and then the coursework provides projects and exercises to help you consolidate and practice that learning.

If you have gone straight to the coursework or straight to class and you haven’t done the prep first, then go back and do the prep.

Maximum time in hours

How to get help

Share your blockers in #cyf-questions-support. Take the opportunity to practice asking your question like a developer: https://curriculum.codeyourfuture.io/guides/asking-questions
Book a pair programming session with a mentor in the #cyf-pair-programming channel
Attend a mid-week study session online
Write down your questions and bring them to class

You should do the prep every week.

Mandatory Tasks

These tasks will help consolidate your learning for this sprint. You should complete as many of these as possible before class on Saturday.

Developing a growth mindset 🔗 Clone

Task code

CYF-1024 - make sure to include this in your PR title or description.

Coursework content

Watch The power of believing that you can improve | Carol Dweck | TED and Neuroplasticity.

Write your reflections on why it is important to have a growth mindset as a developer and how a growth mindset will positively impact you in your career in the long term. Try to answer the following questions:

When did I have a closed mindset this week, and why?
When did I have an open mindset this week, and why?
What have I learnt about myself, as a result?
What will I do differently next time?

Estimated time in hours

What is the purpose of this assignment?

This assignment supports developing a growth mindset while learning new skills and facing barriers.

How to submit

Write in your cohort’s Slack channel what actions you will take in order to overcome your barriers to participating in coding and write a supportive message to one of your peers who has shared their barriers in the channel. Add the link to your Slack post as a comment on this ticket.

Mandatory Onboarding Codewars Katas 🔗 Clone

Task code

CYF-1026 - make sure to include this in your PR title or description.

Link to the coursework

https://www.codewars.com/collections/cyf-onboarding

Learning Objectives

Why are we doing this?

Spend at least 20 minutes per kata, find time at least three times a week to complete this.

Find the Collection called “CYF Onboarding” on the CodeYourFuture account. You are not required to know all the answers here. Use this exercise as an opportunity to practice our “question-asking” habit. Some of these katas might use syntax you haven’t encountered yet and that is totally fine. Don’t go over 2 hours of time spent on this.

Checking your progress: Check your Codewars completion status via the Codewars Progress Checker.

Follow the link: https://codeyourfuture.github.io/Codewars-Progress-Checker
Put your codewars username into the input bar at the top of the page.
Use this page to track completion and share progress at the end of each module.

Maximum time in hours

How to get help

Join the #cyf-codewars Slack channel

Read the CYF Codewars docs

Read Codewars advice from CYFers

Read Codewars advice from mentors

Book a pair programming slot from the available pairing appointments in the CYF Pair Programming Slack Canvas

How to submit

Share a link in the form https://codeyourfuture.github.io/Codewars-Progress-Checker/#YOUR_CODEWARS_USERNAME.

You can obtain the link from the browser location bar after submitting your Codewars username on the Codewars Progress Checker page.

How to review

Once you have completed your kata, look at the other solutions in the solutions view. Consider how many different approaches there are.

Complete Sprint 2 coursework 🔗 Clone

Task code

CYF-1053 - make sure to include this in your PR title or description.

Link to the coursework

https://github.com/CodeYourFuture/Module-Structuring-and-Testing-Data/tree/main/Sprint-2

Why are we doing this?

These challenges are designed to develop your problem-solving skills. It’s all about building up programs case by case, writing a simple unit test that describes and tests each assertion.

This is a practice of logical reasoning.

Maximum time in hours

How to get help

Share your blockers in your class channel https://curriculum.codeyourfuture.io/guides/asking-questions/

How to submit

Checkout main
Make a branch from main called acoursework/sprint-2`
Make regular small commits in this branch with clear messages.
When you are ready, open a PR to the CYF repo, following the instructions in the PR template.

There are three sprint directories in this repo. Make a new branch from main for each sprint.

Optional Tasks

These are optional "stretch goals" to attempt when you have finished the mandatory tasks. They may be more challenging or require some additional research.

Collect your self study courses 🔗 Clone

Task code

CYF-1032 - make sure to include this in your PR title or description.

Link to the coursework

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/curriculum/

Learning Objectives

Why are we doing this?

As you learn with us, you will often use other curricula as well. We encourage you to explore and use quality free resources that are available online. Mentors will most often refer you to MDN and this site also has a free curriculum you can use: MDN Curriculum to work on anything you want to explore more or feel you need more work on. MDN is a high quality resource.

We also make a lot of use of:

Bookmark all these resources now. However, the best way to quickly find help with your programming topic is to search with a specific language and resource as keywords: topic language resource. For example

for loop js mdn

This will quickly take you to a well targeted resource.

You will use many other resources as you progress. Not all resources are equal. Spend fifteen to thirty minutes googling other programming resources now. Pick one you think is valuable and one you think is probably not very useful. Share the links in Slack, explaining how you made your decision. Look at what other people are posting. Do you agree with their evaluations? Why or why not? Comment with your thoughts.