Link to the coursework

Use the prep view from the CYF curriculum to prepare for this week.

Why are we doing this?

Hello folks,
In order to prepare for the upcoming Saturday session, you will need to watch the following YouTube playlist. The YouTube playlist will also point to some exercises you must complete before Saturday’s session.

We strongly recommend watching each video and practising immediately after watching a short section.

Maximum time in hours

4

How to get help

Share your blockers in your class channel. Remember to Ask Your Questions like a developer.

How to submit

Write down at least one specific technical question to bring to the group.

How to review

Come to class with your questions

Link to the coursework

https://www.codewars.com/users/CodeYourFuture/authored_collections

Why are we doing this?

Every week you need to complete at least three kata. Spend at least 20 minutes, three times a week, on your kata workout.

Find the Collection for this week on the CodeYourFuture account.

Take some time to check your levels. Before you are accepted on to a Final Project on the developer track, you need to complete the Final Projects collection and reach a Level 5 kyu in Codewars. Are you on track to reach this standard? Have you run a study group to work on kata? Have you reached out on the #cyf-codewars channel? What is your plan to meet this goal?

Maximum time in hours (Tech has max 16 per week total)

1

How to get help

• Join the #cyf-codewars Slack channel
• Read the CYF Codewars docs
• Read Codewars advice from CYFers
• Read Codewars advice from mentors

Remember, after 20 minutes, take a break.

How to submit

Your codewars progress is tracked automatically and is available on the public API. You don’t need to submit it.

How to review

Once you have completed your kata, look at the other solutions in the solutions view. Consider how many different approaches there are.

Why are we doing this?

You’ll need to regularly check solutions to evaluate your understanding.
However, you must attempt the activities first before you use the solutions.
You can find the solutions for all the assignments in this repo’s solutions branch.

Maximum time in hours

0.5

Coursework content

Do some research (about 20 minutes) on good CVs:

• CYF Graduate Module CV Guide
• Harvard University’s Resume (CV) and Cover Letter Guide

Go to the CV Review channel on Slack (#cyf-profile-review) and find two CVs of people in your current group that haven’t been reviewed much. For each one, provide three or four constructive comments as a reply in the Slack channel.

Look at the comments that your group have provided to you and add a Slack reaction to thank them for their review. Make changes to your CV accordingly.

Remember that you can use an automated screener (like https://resumeworded.com/) to ‘score’ your CV and get further suggestions on improvements.

Estimated time in hours

1.5

What is the purpose of this assignment?

Improving your CV and the CVs of your group

How to submit

Reply to the Slack thread (#cyf-profile-review) of your group
Add the link to the CVs you reviewed as a comment on your issue

Coursework content

From your research on writing CVs, select the three or four concepts you think are the most important. Write a summary of these concepts in no more than 100 words.

Make sure that your spelling and grammar are correct (Grammarly is your friend).

Estimated time in hours

0.5

What is the purpose of this assignment?

Practice summarising the important information into a concise piece of text

How to submit

Attach your CV tip summary to this ticket.

Link to the coursework

Look up the slideshow app in the week-3 directory to get started.

Why are we doing this?

These challenges are designed to develop your problem-solving skills.

Acceptance criteria

• Given a web page with a carousel of images
  When the page loads
  Then the first image in the carousel should be displayed

• Given forward and back buttons
  When the forward button is clicked
  Then the next image in the carousel should be displayed
  And
  When the back button is clicked
  Then the previous image in the carousel should be displayed

• Given at least 4 images in the carousel
  When the user reaches the end of the carousel in either direction
  Then the carousel should loop back to the first/last image

Advanced stretch functionality

• Given auto-forward and auto-back buttons
  When the auto-forward button is clicked
  Then the images should automatically advance every 5 seconds

When the auto-back button is clicked
Then the images should automatically go back every 5 seconds
When the stop button is clicked
Then the auto-advance/go back should stop

• Given the carousel is auto-advancing
  When either the forward or back button is clicked
  Then the auto-advance should stop

Maximum time in hours

4

How to get help

Share your blockers in your class channel
https://syllabus.codeyourfuture.io/guides/asking-questions

How to submit

1. Fork to your Github account.
2. Make a branch for this project.
3. Make regular small commits in this branch with clear messages.
4. When you are ready, open a PR to the CYF repo, following the instructions in the PR template.

There are several projects in this repo. Make a new branch for each project.

Link to the coursework

https://curriculum.codeyourfuture.io/js2/success/

Why are we doing this?

🔑 The most important thing is that you are secure in your understanding.

At the end of the course, we will expect you to build novel applications using your understanding. If you cannot build things, we cannot put you forward for jobs. It is in your personal interest to make sure you have properly understood this module.

To progress to the next module you need to meet the success criteria for this module. How will you as a cohort meet the module success criteria? Discuss it in your class channel and make a plan together.

🧑🏿‍🎤 good strategies

• asking volunteers to review your code
• helping each other with coursework blockers
• arranging midweek study sessions
• using Saturday time to review code and cohort tracker

🙅🏿 bad strategies

• opening empty PRs
• copying and pasting
• breaking the Trainee Agreement
• mistaking the measure for the target

Maximum time in hours

.5

How to get help

Discuss with your cohort. Support each other.

How to submit

In week 4 of your module you will need a representative to report to the organisation. Here’s your template, fill in your details and delete as appropriate:

📈 Cohort Progress Report from @cohort-name to @programme-team

• criterion
• criterion
• criterion
• criterion

✅ We are progressing to the next module.
⛔ We are taking a consolidation week to meet our targets.

Link to the coursework

https://github.com/CodeYourFuture/Codewars-API-Project

Why are we doing this?

This project is a preview of some of the things we’ll work on in JS3. If you’ve got capacity now, explore it. This project introduces:

• Fetch
• Web Components
• JavaScript modules
• The Codewars API

If you don’t feel you have capacity now, come back to this project after JS3

Maximum time in hours

n/a

How to get help

Read forward to JS3 for some longer explanations of these concepts

How to submit

Open a PR to the project repo - you know the drill 😉

Link to the coursework

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/javascript/

Why are we doing this?

For months now we have been building a toolkit to help us write great software. In our toolkit we have:

Specifications, like user stories, acceptance criteria, and Given/When/Then
Help us understand what to write and check we’ve written the right thing.

Tests, like unit tests and assertions
Help us break down our problems and check our solutions work even when we change things.

Asking questions
Help us formally reason through our problems and identify gaps in our mental models.

Playing computer
Helps us reason about code with a mental model.

Audits, like Lighthouse
Help us identify performance and quality improvements we can make to our code.

And now we can add debuggers to our toolkit.

Debuggers are tools that help us find and fix problems, or “bugs”, in our JavaScript code. They let us step through our code line-by-line while it runs to see what is happening. This helps us find the place where our mental model of the code is different from our implementation. Your browser has a debugger and so does VSCode.

Key reasons we use debuggers:

• See what’s happening inside functions
• Check if variables have expected values
• Pause execution and step through slowly
• Find exactly where mistakes happen

JavaScript debuggers give control over execution flow to methodically test and fix bugs. Complete this tutorial (it’s a 7 minute video plus tasks) to explore the Chrome Debugger.

Maximum time in hours

.5

How to get help

AI can help you here. Code along with AI so it has the context and ask it when you get stuck. Use this starting prompt:

Act as a friendly, supportive, knowledgeable programming mentor. I am learning the debugger in Chrome Devtools. I’m doing this tutorial https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/javascript/

Talk me through the tutorial step by step. Wait for me to confirm I’ve completed the step before going on to the next step. When I get stuck, answer my questions in CEFR B2 English meant for an adult professional speaking in a second language. Do not rephrase the tutorial text, just explain it when I ask you. Say okee dokee if you understand, and begin with step 1.