Web Dev Apprenticeship 'Boot-Camp'

Documentation for our Web Development Apprenticeship - Pre Apprenticeship Training

Boot-camp Objectives and Goals

Our main objectives are:

1. To ensure a good understanding of the fundamental languages used in Web Dev
   1. HTML
   2. CSS
   3. JavaScript
   4. PHP
   5. CMS
2. Learn and use some of the tools of the trade
   1. Codepen
   2. Git and GitHub
   3. Glitch
   4. Atom
3. Build a portfolio to show potential employers examples of our work

End of Week 1

At the end of the first week you should be aiming for:

1. Treehouse Pre-Req course 50% complete
2. Portfolio blog created in Drupal and/or Wordpress (hosted not local)
   1. About me page
   2. Contact form
   3. Blog at /blog
3. At least 3 blog posts and/or profile items complete

End of Week 2

1. Treehouse Pre-Req course complete
2. At least 6 blog posts and/or profile items complete
3. JS intro Complete

End of Week 3

1. Additional Treehouse course or track started
2. At least 9 blog posts and/or profile items complete
3. Git workshop Complete

Before first interviews

1. Another Treehouse course or track started
2. At least 12 blog posts and/or profile items complete
3. Interview workshop complete

Blog Posts - Tips and Ideas

It is a really good idea to put more than the minimum required number of blog posts or portfolio items on your site. Blog posts do not need to be very long but should always be more than a sentence or two. Here are some tips and ideas for posts:

Employers will want to see you:

1. Responding to challenges and fixing problems
2. Writing good, clean, well spaced code with comments
3. Have a really good grasp of markup
4. Have progressed and learned new things during the bootcamp

Tips

1. Use short sentences and lists
2. Use images in your posts - Take pictures on your phone, use Screengrabs or search for free images
3. Embed code - Employers will want to see that you can write code as well as talk about it, you can embed codepens or paste directly within <code> tags - add syntax style if you can to make it easier to read.
4. ...and don't forget the spell checker

Ideas for Posts

1. Daily or Weekly Record
2. Showcase of a previous piece of work
3. Showcase of a challenge from this bootcamp
4. Key takeouts from Treehouse tracks
5. Key takeouts from Intro to JavaScript
6. How I built my blog, what system I chose and why, what themes I looked at, what I plan to do in the future
7. Content Management
8. Drupal Vs Wordpress
9. Open Source

Resources

• Wikiversity PHP challenges
• [Free Code Camp Curriculum](https://learn.freecodecamp.org/ http://www.codewars.com/)
• Test yourself on JavaScript
• W3 Schools JavaScript Quiz
• Laravel quick start
• PHP Tutorials and Challenges