Look back, look ahead

5/30/17

New and improved Git etc.

• Problem:
  • Our treatment of command line, Git, GitHub was short on story and mental model.
  • And just short. 
  • Last piece of unrevised content
• Solution: git-cmd-001
  • More detailed instructions on installing/configuring
  • Much clearer exposition of mental model and use cases for Git/GitHub
  • Discuss pull requests and feature branches

The curriculum 

Improved WEB-DEV-001

• Problem:
  • State management idea too hard too frustrating for students
  • Students finishing the curriculum to quickly (NB: that's a good problem!)
  • Beginners find it hard to know how to move from app idea to executing.
• Solution:
  • Move first half of jQuery into WEB-DEV-001
  • Tell story of how to write functional, single responsibility code, vs. spaghetti
  • Curriculum

Welcome Thinkful-Ed/curricula

• Problem:
  • How to understand bugs, feature requests for a bunch of curricula and have centralized transparent discussions about them?
• Solution:
  • Thinkful-Ed/curricula
  • Modeled after Thinkful/Thinkful
  • The repo

• Everything and the kitchen sink approach as first pass (Google doc)
• Ed-team wide goals to make decisions about what to prioritize:

  • We produce opinionated yet flexible product engineers who deliver real business value.

• Assessments looking like they'll play a big role.

  
  

  
  

Long term planning (or what you do when the fires are out)