spyapali / curriculum

The curriculum of Techtonica, a free tech training and job placement program for women and non-binary adults with low incomes.

Welcome to the Techtonica curriculum!

Techtonica is a non-profit project of SocialGood that does free tech training and job placement for unemployed or underemployed folks. For more information, please see our website: Techtonica.org

Apprentices will learn to do full-stack web development using JavaScript. What bootcamps and apprenticeships like Techtonica have in common is the fact that they are intensive training. However, bootcamps can be pretty passive classroom learning with students and they cost between $15,000 and $30,000.

An apprenticeship aims to be more like the workplace to make the transition into the industry better—instead of having an instructor constantly guiding you, a facilitator gives you assignments and you're expected to figure out what to do with volunteers, mentors, tech groups, and other apprentices. In the best-case scenarios, there are regular check-ins with managers and mentors provide support. We’re making Techtonica’s program as hands-on and project-based as possible to best prepare you for work in tech.

Volunteering:

If you would like to contribute to the curriculum, please sign up here, then choose an issue in the to-do list.

Get started:

• Click the issue link and add yourself as the assignee, and pull it into the "in progress" column. (You'll need a github account to comment. If you know someone connected to Techtonica, they may be able to add you to our slack channel.)
• In the issue, you should find a link for a lesson outline and for corresponding slides.
  • To create an outline, fork the repo or commit directly onto the master branch.
  • To edit a slideshow, you'll need to request edit permission by clicking View Only > Request Edit Access. If you are logged into an account ending in @gmail.com, you can simply make a copy, edit, and transfer ownership to [email protected] when you finish. Either way, save on top of the sample template used in the slide, and cut any slides you find unnecessary.

While working:

• Comment in the issue if you have a question, and add the "question" tag to help get our attention.
• People are welcome to team up on an issue. If you see someone is already assigned but you want to help, leave the other assignee a message on the issue about collaborating.
• Please note the due date! Any amount of help is appreciated, but if the deadline comes and you won't be able to complete it, please leave a comment about your progress and unassign yourself from the issue so someone else can pick it up. If you forked the repo, go ahead and make a pull request with what you have, and transfer ownership of a copied slideshow to [email protected].

Completed curriculum:

• Place a "completed" label on the issue once you've completed it, and leave comments about your work if you like. Grazie Mille!!

Table of Contents

1. What is Tech?
2. Welcome, Tips, and Rules
3. How to Learn
4. Growth Mindset
5. How to Pair Program
6. Dev Tools Setup
7. Command Line
   • Intro to Command Line Interface Tools
   • Advanced Command Line
8. HTML
9. CSS
10. Git Version Control
11. Using GitHub
12. Giving Presentations
13. Bootstrap
14. UI/UX
15. Sass
16. JavaScript
17. jQuery
18. Request/Response
19. Inclusion
20. Databases
21. Project Management
22. Documentation
23. Deploying
24. Testing
25. AJAX
26. Data Structures
    • Hash Tables
    • Linked Lists
    • Stacks
    • Queues
    • Trees
27. APIs
28. React
29. Web patterns
30. Python
31. Interviewing
32. Django
33. Refactoring
34. Mobile Development
35. DevOps
36. Security
37. Popular Tools
38. Data Visualization
39. Operating Systems
40. Data Science
41. Open Source Projects
42. Entrepreneurship
43. Roles in Tech
44. Optimization

Creative Commons Open-Source License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.