ToDo:
Day 1 - Welcome Back!
Welcome to Bootcamp
A Workout For Our Minds
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Aristotle
Learning Hard Things is Hard
But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it.
If you struggled last semester, don’t worry. We’re going to talk about some strategies to get you back on track.
If you killed it, great. We’ll give you a chance to up your game and help you grow into a stronger student.
First, let’s talk about strategy.
The Forgetting Curve
The “forgetting curve” was developed by Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885. Ebbinghaus memorized a series of nonsense syllables, and then tested his memory of them at various period ranging from 20 minutes to 31 days. This simple but landmark research project was the first to demonstrate that there is an exponential loss of memory unless information is reinforced.
Spaced Repetition Learning
Your brain is trained to forget things. To force your brain to retain information, you need to reinforce topics through repeated practice and assessment.
Start with the concepts you’ve struggled with previously, and practice them. When you feel like you’ve mastered any concept, test yourself and find your weaknesses. Then strengthen those skills.
Action Plan
3-step strategy to help you conquer your learning woes
Analyze Success
Where did I go wrong?
Figure out the areas you struggled in most and highlight them in the Address Your Success Action Plan Google Doc.
Rate yourself on the learning targets that you’re going to be working through in this cycle.
Practice
Head to one of the three content providers to practice the skills and learning targets you chose.
Mark your progress on the Google Sheet tracker.
Assess
When you feel like you’ve mastered the skills, select a conference partner.
Each one of you will be given assessments to complete independently, and a pair programming project to finish together.
Conference
Once you’ve finished each one of you grade each other on the rubric.
Determine together whether each one of you met your goals and re-assess yourselves on the learning targets.
Before you start again...
Take a look at your work and if you’re satisfied with it, publish it to Github and move on.
If not, polish up a few improvements until you’re satisfied and ready for the next cycle.
If you struggle to understand something, request a mini-lesson from Astor.
Learning Target Review
More on Learning Targets
Conclusion
If you don’t know where to start, begin with CSS layouts.
HTML and CSS Bootcamp Activities
Terminology Takedown
Go through Lessons 0.1 - 0.9 and take down all the terms that you don’t understand.
Pair up and fill out the graphic organizers and flash card templates for those terms.
Lessons
Silly Animals Website Playlist - 40 youtube videos from Astor on building websites
CodePen Interactive Summaries - Read about the fundamentals of HTML and CSS. Also, play with the code!
Khan Academy
| About | | Web Dev Tools |
| Intro to HTML | | CSS Layout |
| Intro to CSS | | More CSS Selectors |
| More HTML Tags | | Other Ways...CSS |
| CSS Text Properties | | Further Learning |
Codecademy
| Intro to HTML | | The Box Model |
| Common Elements | | CSS Display |
| Tables | | CSS Color |
| CSS Selectors | | CSS Typography |
| Visual Rules | | CSS Grid |
FreeCodeCamp
Reading and Summaries
Github
Checklist
HTML and CSS
Summarize the Section
You Ready?
Run it.