- Move CI and Staging Environments class to B3
- Begin Quantified Self with students building frontend and connecting with existing Rails backend
- Finish Quantified Self with students building a backend in Node/Express and connecting their frontend with it
- Add "Career Workshop" time with Meg (two 90 minute sessions) to build in job related work time
- Change assessment format: remove 16 hour + assessment, add JS 2-3 hour assessment, technical communication assessment, and capstone project as a piece of their assessment
- Rework Open Source project format - move to two day group project in week 6
- Move CI and Staging Environments class from B4
- Add section for evaluating documentation and accessibility for projects
- Move Application Coordination class from B4
- Move Tracker class from B4
- Rewrite consuming APIs lesson to use BDD over two days
- Update Rails projects to 5.1.3
- Update Asset Pipeline class to use Yarn, Webpack
- Using Ruby 2.4.1
- Change Cloney Island to 80202 and have the projects be original concepts instead of clones.
- Sprint 1 will be greenfield
- Sprint 2 will be brownfield and they will inherit the previous mods projects
- Remove Seeding Data Efficiently. Students are doing a good job coming into B3 from the Bike Share project in Mod 2.
- Build in mini-project evals mid-mod
- Move README and accessibility lessons from B4 into B2
- Keep final assessment as individual timed assessment
- Move project kick-offs to Fridays from Thursdays
- Move Mix-in lesson closer to Inheritance lesson to compare and contrast
- Remove
cat
andecho
from File/IO lesson - Add instructions to download voices to BeatBox
- Add note about looping/recursion to BeatBox and CompleteMe
- Add lesson on Four Principles of OOP
- Start independent diagnostics earlier in the module
- Consider meeting with students currently repeating the module early in the module to offer/discuss support.
- Consider opening conversation about repeating earlier with those students for whom it is a possibility/likely outcome.