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YOUR DEVMOUNTAIN EXPERIENCE
Conventional Passive vs. Active Education
OWN YOUR Learning
- Self-learning is how the industry works
- You'll have hands-on projects, videos, and reading
- What you put in is what you get out
- Focus and effort are on you
- Time + Focused Effort = Success
- The sky is the limit, so push yourself
Your DevMountain Experience
- You can expect to truly struggle
- You can expect to feel behind
- You can expect to feel overwhelmed
- You can expect this to be incredibly challenging
- You can expect to spend time working outside of class hours and on weekends, especially during all 3 of the projects
A Bootcamp Experience
Dealing with ADVERSITY
- Don't give up
- Don't blame others
- Don't beat yourself up
Students who work the hardest and stay positive can often surpass their more experienced peers.
- Do work hard
- Do stay positive
- Do help one another
Tips for Learning
- Try not to take struggling personally, don't "should" on yourself
- Try not to compare yourself to others
- Take notes, or don't: do whatever helps keep you engaged
- Stay organized! Have a system, whatever works for you
- Jot down questions, and bring them up in review
- Focus on just our curriculum
- Come in on weekends, and work together
- Put in more effort than you think you need
- Come in early
- Rewatch the videos
- Redo the projects
- Complete every bit of suggested content
- Get exercise
- Get sleep
- Take breaks
Lehi FT Schedule (Mountain)
Monday - Thursday Schedule
9am:
10am:
12:30pm:
1:30pm:
4:30pm:
Code Challenge/Review
Lecture/Code-Along
Lunch
Lab Exercise (Paired)
End of Day Review
Friday Schedule
9am:
9:15am:
12:30pm:
1:30pm:
3:00pm:
4:00pm:
Assessment Intro
Assessment
Lunch
Assessment
Outcomes
Social/End of Week Review
remote FT Schedule (Central)
Monday - Thursday Schedule
9:30am:
10:30am:
1pm:
2pm:
5pm:
Code Challenge/Review
Lecture/Code-Along
Lunch
Lab Exercise (Paired)
End of Day Review
Friday Schedule
9:30am:
9:45am:
1pm:
2pm:
3:30pm:
4:30pm:
Assessment Intro
Assessment
Lunch
Assessment
Outcomes
Social/End of Week Review
Course details - PT Schedule
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- Class is held every Tuesday and Thursday
- Class is held every other Saturday starting in Week 1
- Any deviation from this schedule will be published in FRODO
PT Schedule (Mountain)
Tuesday/Thursday A Schedule
6:00pm:
8:30pm:
9:20pm:
9:30pm:
Lecture/Code-Along
Lab Exercise
Standups
Class dismissed
Thursday B Schedule
6:00pm:
6:30pm:
7:30pm:
9:15pm:
9:30pm:
Code Challenge
Outcomes
Unit Review
Assessment Introduction
Class dismissed
PT Schedule (Mountain)
Saturday Schedule
9:00am:
10:00am:
12:30pm:
1:30pm:
4:00pm:
4:30pm:
5:00pm:
Code Challenge/Review
Lecture/Code-Along
Lunch
Lab Exercise (Paired)
Social
Standups
Class dismissed
Wednesday (Optional)
6:00pm:
7:30pm:
Office hours opens (review content, nothing new)
Office hours closes
Full-stack web Development
Front-End
Back-End
"Client-side"
"Servers" & "Databases"
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
React
Node
Express
PostgreSQL
Full-stack web Development
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Weeks 7-10
Weeks 11 - 13
Command Line, Git, Intro to JavaScript
JavaScript Continued, HTML & CSS, The DOM
Node, Express, APIs, and Templating
React
SQL, Sequelize
Redux, Routing, Testing, Bootstrap
Personal Project
Group Project
Full Time Program
Full-stack web Development
Weeks 1-2
Weeks 3-4
Weeks 5-6
Weeks 7-8
Weeks 9-10
Weeks 11-12
Weeks 13 - 20
Weeks 21 - 26
Command Line, Git, Intro to JavaScript
JavaScript Continued, HTML & CSS, The DOM
Node, Express, APIs, and Templating
React
SQL, Sequelize
Redux, Routing, Testing, Bootstrap
Personal Project
Group Project
Part Time Program
course details
grading & graduation
Assignment | Points |
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Personal Profile | 50 |
Week 1 Assessment | 100 |
Week 2 Assessment | 100 |
Week 3 Assessment | 100 |
Project 1 - NoDB | 150 |
Week 5 Assessment | 100 |
Project 2 - Personal | 200 |
Project 3 - Group | 200 |
Total | 1000 |
Graduation Requirements
- 750+ points
- Attempt all assignments
- Maximum of 3 absences
- Outcomes-approved resume
- Outcomes-approved LinkedIn Profile
What are you not paying for?
- 24/7 access to instructors/mentors
- A job
- A permanent skillset
- Constant, 1-to-1 support
- An individually personalized learning environment
What are you paying for?
- Curriculum expert teachers
- Excellent mentors
- Modern, project-based, refined curriculum
- Network + alumni
- An opportunity to earn a foundation in full-stack web development
Don'ts
You paid a lot of money to be here.
Don't miss out on this opportunity.
Do's
- Play music out loud (headphones)
- Have your phone out in class
- Play games, watch random videos
- Miss class (DM on Discord in case of emergency)
- Interview for jobs prior to end of class
- Begin an in-class relationship
- Make fun of, harass, or fight w/ others
- Consume drugs/alcohol
- Download copyrighted material
- Remove any equipment(Cords, monitors, keyboards, mice)
- Plan on a normal social life
- Work a part-time/full-time job
- Respect peers, students, staff
- Go all in, plan on 8-11 hours of work per day
- Have fun!
- Build friendships and connections
- Treat this like you would your job
- Complete every single repo, mini project, toy problem
- Use your monitor (dongle it up!)
- Check Discord regularly
- Be proactive!
Important Policies
- No more than 4 tardies (3 minutes late)
- No more than 3 absences (20 minutes late)
- If you are outside the accepted range, you will be put on academic probation
- If issues persist, you may be removed from the program
Attendance
Important Policies
Code of Conduct
- We expect dignity and professionalism
- Students that are dishonest, disrespectful, or disruptive will be removed
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Zero tolerance policy for discrimination, harassment, or disrespectful language for one another
Important Policies
Ethics and Original Work
- Plagiarism is NOT permitted
- Do not claim other peoples work as your own
- For quizzes/individual assessments, do not share your work with others
- Collaboration is usually encouraged -- We'll make it clear when you need to work independently
- Collaboration is usually encouraged -- We'll make it clear when you need to work independently
- A note on Artificial Intelligence
- AI is an incredibly helpful tool in certain situations, but can stunt your academic growth if overused in a learning environment
- While a student at Devmountain, AI should NEVER be used to write code for you
- AI CAN eventually be used for debugging and understanding concepts
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