ORIENTATION

Intros
Name
Why You're Here
Skilling Up

The Space
EXPECTATIONS
- You should expect to struggle
- You should expect to feel dumber than others
- You should expect to feel overwhelmed
- You should expect to work harder than you ever have before
We only have 16 weeks!
What you are paying for
Expert teachers
Excellent mentors
Modern, project-based, refined curriculum
24/7 hack space
Network + alumni
What you are not paying for
24/7 access to teachers, mentors
Job
A static skillset
A personalized, 1:1 experience
Do's 👍
- Respect peers, students, mentors
- Go "all in"
- Have fun
- Build relationships, not a competition
- Work with your mentor
- Every single stretch problem, mini project, project
Don'ts 👎
- Miss class (email in case of emergency)
- Leave early
- Mess with the learning environment
- Compare yourself to others
- In-class relationships
- Drugs/alcohol
3 Days
Work hard, be nice to people.
Daily Schedule
Preclass: 🚀 Watch Video
6:00pm: 👊 Review Video
6:30pm: 🖥 Guided Practice
7:30pm: 🙋🏼 Project
8:30pm: 👪 Mentor Check-in
Class time is not enough.
A Week at DevMountain
Tues 6-9: 🖥 Class
Wed 6-9: 🙋🏼 Lab Hours (optional)
Thurs 6-9: 🖥 Class
Sat 9-12: 🖥 Class
Sat 12-2: 🙋🏼 Lab Hours
Working With Your Mentors
- 20 minute rule
- The Queue
- Pair Programming
- Code review
- Mentor Checkin
Come Up With the Question
Flipped
Why Flipped?
Follow video. Write down questions. Add questions to Queue.
Review and extend during class.
The Projects
iOS. Flashlight. Introduction. Solar System. Journal. Timer. Task. Weather. Representative. Calculator. Timeline. Chat.
UI/UX. Three complete projects from beginning to end.
Web. Connections. Quiz. Better To-Do. Ecommerce. Blog.
Ready for The First day of class
Slack. Github. IDE / Environment. Preclass Resources.
Two Types of Feedback
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Legitimate mistake or issue on DevMountain's part
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Designed discomfort
After Hours Director
Caleb Hicks
Class LEads
Web Provo
Brack Carmony
Jon Larsen
Web SLC
UI/UX Provo
Britton Stanfill
Caleb Hicks
iOS SLC
FEEDBACK
Pair Programming

Part Time Orientation
By calebhicks
Part Time Orientation
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