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Portland Code School

Front End Freelancer

Calendar

Week 1

  • Course overview, web application architecture
  • Tools: Development environment setup
  • Basic HTML & CSS

Week 2

  • Project management: working in teams, working alone, working with clients, agile methods
  • Career: Participating in communities
  • Tools: Exploring, reading, & watching code with Chrome Development tools
  • Code Challenge 01
  • Assessment checkpoint

Week 3

  • Career: Tools and techniques for a lifetime of learning
  • Code Challenge 02

Week 4

  • Career: Presenting yourself and what you've learned
  • Code Challenge 03
  • Assessment checkpoint

Week 5

  • Introduction to JavaScript
  • CMS development - MODX fundamentals
  • Using Databases
  • Career: Class visit from a recruiting company

Week 6

  • Career: Picking personal focus
  • Assessment checkpoint
  • Code Challenge 04
  • Deploying a CMS

Week 7

  • Navigating new CMSs
  • Wordpress skills
  • Intro to jQuery
  • Tech community visit

Week 8

  • Grid systems incl. Twitter bootstrap
  • UI patterns
  • jQuery part 2
  • Code Challenge 05
  • Assessment checkpoint

Week 9

  • jQuery + CSS + good design for good UX
  • HTML 5 canvas, audio, video
  • Product development: What makes a good capstone project

Week 10

  • TBD
  • Product development: Capstone project pitches from business partners
  • Product development: Making meaning, creating value, the pitch
  • Assessment checkpoint

Week 11

  • TBD
  • Career: Building a reputation and a personal brand
  • Product development: Student team project proposal pitch sessions
  • Product development: Capstone project selection and team formation

Week 12

  • TBD
  • Career: Freelance and temp work strategies
  • Code Challenge 06
  • Assessment checkpoint

Week 13

  • TBD
  • Product development: Student team project work
  • Career: Interviewing, creating the job you want

Week 14

  • TBD
  • Career: Presenting at local meetups
  • Product development: Student team project work
  • Assessment checkpoint

Week 15

  • TBD
  • Product development: Student team project work

Week 16

  • Product development: Finish and Present Projects
  • Final assessment

Copyright © 2014 Alan Zimmerman & Nìm Wunnan

Used by permission by Portland Code School