Energiser
Every CYF session begins with an energiser. Usually there’s a rota showing who will lead the energiser. We have some CYF favourite games you can play if you are stuck.
- Traffic Jam: re-order the cars to unblock yourself
- Telephone: draw the words and write the pictures
- Popcorn show and tell: popcorn around the room and show one nearby object or something in your pocket or bag and explain what it means to you.
Wordle Hackathon 🔗
Workshop Name
Replace this readme with the requirements for your workshop
Learning Objectives
Requirements
Explain the requirements of the workshop. You might want to talk about goals here. You might want to use formal specifications like Given/When/Then. It’s ok for requirements to be in different formats. We want trainees to learn to interpret requirements in many settings and expressions. Just make sure your workshop is active and not a lecture.
Always write your workshop in a readme.md in a folder with the same name as the workshop. This makes it easy to find and easy to show on the curriculum website.
Acceptance Criteria
- I have provided clear success criteria
- These might be related to the objectives and the requirements
- I have given some simple, clear ways for trainees to evaluate their work
- I have run Lighthouse and my Accessibility score is 100
Community Lunch
Every Saturday at CYF we cook and eat together. We share our food and our stories. We learn about each other and the world. We build community.
This is everyone’s responsibility, so help with what is needed to make this happen, for example, organising the food, setting up the table, washing up, tidying up, etc. You can do something different every week. You don’t need to be constantly responsible for the same task.
Study Group
What are we doing now?
You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.
Use this time wisely
You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:
- work through the coursework
- ask questions and get unblocked
- give and receive code review
- work on your portfolio
- develop your own projects
🛎️ Code waiting for review 🔗
Below are trainee coursework Pull Requests that need to be reviewed by volunteers.
London-10-Onur-Atas-Module-Node 🔗
Learners, PR Template
Self checklist
- I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
- I have titled my PR with COHORT_NAME | FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME | REPO_NAME | WEEK
- I have tested my changes
- My changes follow the style guide
- My changes meet the requirements of this task
Changelist
Briefly explain your PR.
Questions
Ask any questions you have for your reviewer.
Start a reviewLondon 10 | Iryna Lypnyk | Node Module | Chat server 🔗
Learners, PR Template
Self checklist
- I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
- I have titled my PR with COHORT_NAME | FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME | REPO_NAME | WEEK
- I have tested my changes
- My changes follow the style guide
- My changes meet the requirements of this task
Changelist
Briefly explain your PR.
Questions
Ask any questions you have for your reviewer.
Start a reviewGlasgow-6-Siver Omar- Module-Node-Quote-Server -Week 1 🔗
FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME | siver omar
REPO_NAME | quote-server
WEEK |1 Start a review
Glasgow 6 | Muath Alawadhi | Module-Node-mailing-list-api -week4 🔗
Learners, PR Template
Self checklist
- I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
- I have titled my PR with COHORT_NAME | FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME | REPO_NAME | WEEK
- I have tested my changes
- My changes follow the style guide
- My changes meet the requirements of this task
Changelist
Briefly explain your PR.
Questions
Ask any questions you have for your reviewer.
Start a reviewGlasgow 6 | Muath Alawadhi | Module-Node-hotel-bookings-api -week3 🔗
Learners, PR Template
Self checklist
- I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
- I have titled my PR with COHORT_NAME | FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME | REPO_NAME | WEEK
- I have tested my changes
- My changes follow the style guide
- My changes meet the requirements of this task
Changelist
Briefly explain your PR.
Questions
Ask any questions you have for your reviewer.
Start a reviewAfternoon Break
Please feel comfortable and welcome to pray at this time if this is part of your religion.
If you are breastfeeding and would like a private space, please let us know.
Sell yourself 🔗
Learning Objectives
Preparation
Introduction
Brag for your pair
🎯 Goal: Express the strengths of another person (30 minutes)
Pair up with someone you know well, someone you worked with together before. One of you will act as an interviewer, and the other will be an interviewee. Interviewers ask the following questions to their pair. The interviewees answer these questions not for themselves but for their pair. Interviewees pretend to be in the shoes of their pair and show off their pair’s strengths, skills, and achievements. Each of you should play both roles, so pay attention to time and don’t spend more than 15 minutes each. Put timers on your phones and don’t spend more than 2 minutes for each question.
Interview questions:
- Please tell us a little bit about yourself
- Can you tell us about an achievement you are proud of?
- What is your biggest strength?
- Which soft skills do you need to improve further?
- Why do you want to become a professional developer?
- What can you contribute to our team?
Tips for facilitators: Don’t worry if all questions aren’t covered by the end of 15 minutes, stop there and change roles.
What is your value for a company?
🎯 Goal: Express own professional value (30 minutes)
Work as a class. Study this job advertisement. Identify the pain points for the company. Remember, it’s not easy for employers to find the right candidate. Recruiting is expensive and hard for companies. Knowing how to present yourself correctly makes it easier for hiring managers to see that you are the right fit for their company.
- What is the emphasis in the advertisement?
- What qualities would the best candidate have?
- What does the company need?
- How can you help solve their problems?
- What value will you add when you join their team?
Brainstorm about how junior devs create value for companies (e.g. by being proactive, by learning fast, etc.). List these traits for junior devs on a board.
Progress check-in 🔗
Link to the coursework
https://curriculum.codeyourfuture.io/node/success/
Why are we doing this?
🔑 The most important thing is that you are secure in your understanding.
At the end of the course, we will expect you to build novel applications using your understanding. If you cannot build things, we cannot put you forward for jobs. It is in your personal interest to make sure you have properly understood this module.
To progress to the next module you need to meet the success criteria for this module. How will you as a cohort meet the module success criteria? Discuss it in your class channel and make a plan together.
🧑🏿🎤 good strategies
- asking volunteers to review your code
- helping each other with coursework blockers
- arranging midweek study sessions
- using Saturday time to review code and cohort tracker
🙅🏿 bad strategies
- opening empty PRs
- copying and pasting
- breaking the Trainee Agreement
- mistaking the measure for the target
Maximum time in hours
.5
How to get help
Discuss with your cohort. Support each other.
How to submit
In week 4 of your module you will need a representative to report to the organisation. Here’s your template, fill in your details and delete as appropriate:
📈 Cohort Progress Report from @cohort-name to @programme-team
- criterion
- criterion
- criterion
- criterion
✅ We are progressing to the next module.
⛔ We are taking a consolidation week to meet our targets.
- 🎯 Topic Code Review
- 🎯 Topic Communication
- 🎯 Topic Delivery
- 🎯 Topic Requirements
- 🎯 Topic Teamwork
- 🎯 Topic Testing
- 🎯 Topic Time Management
- 🏕 Priority Mandatory
- 🦔 Size Tiny
- 📅 Week 1
- 📅 Week 4