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1. Content Overview

Objectives of the Week

  1. Learn about project management priciples and practices
  2. Explore and use website development tool(s)
  3. Communicate an initial project proposal
  4. Identify and utilise version control protocol(s)

Schedule

Monday, Jan 19th: - Day 1 Student Bootcamp

Tuesday, Jan 20th: - Day 2 Student Bootcamp

Wednesday, Jan 21st - Global Class - Principles and Practices & Global Class - Project Management

Thursday, Jan 22nd: - Local Class - Cloning a Git Repo

Friday, Jan 23rd: - Local Class - Setting up MKdocs

Monday, Jan 26th: Resitation - Version Control

Principles and practices

Fundamentals of project and time management. Key concept included:

a. 80/20, 95/5 rule of time management:

b. Demand- vs supply-side time management:

c. Triage:

d. Serial vs parallel development:

e. Spiral development:

Assignments

  1. Read, sign (add your name to) the student agreement and commit it to your repo Student agreement can be found here
  2. Work through a git tutorial. Terminal commands and notes can be found here
  3. Build a personal website in the class archive describing yourself
  4. Update your personal website with an initial concept for your final project Concepts for final project can be found here

Outstanding Questions

  • How do you add a dropdown within a page (aka hidden content)
  • How do you link to a specific section on a page?
  • How do you order table of contents?
  • How do you wrap text around photos
  • How to you put two photo next to each other on a page
  • How do you edit the header