Curriculum templates

Copy a template into your group's description or a pinned Discord message, and adjust the pace to your group. Each plan assumes one or two meetings a week and a few hours of work between them.

Progress table

Keep a table like this so everyone, including newcomers, can see where the group is:

Web development basics (8 weeks)

Resources: freeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design, MDN Learn web development

1. Week 1: how the web works; HTML structure and semantic tags.
2. Week 2: CSS basics: selectors, the box model, colors and fonts.
3. Week 3: layout with Flexbox; build a simple profile card.
4. Week 4: CSS Grid and responsive design; make the card work on a phone.
5. Week 5: forms and accessibility basics.
6. Week 6: Git and GitHub; put your work online with GitHub Pages.
7. Week 7: start a personal portfolio site.
8. Week 8: finish and show your portfolio.

JavaScript (10 weeks)

Resources: freeCodeCamp JavaScript, javascript.info, The Odin Project

1. Week 1: values, variables, types and operators.
2. Week 2: conditionals and loops.
3. Week 3: functions and scope.
4. Week 4: arrays and array methods.
5. Week 5: objects; build a small to-do list in the console.
6. Week 6: the DOM and events; put the to-do list in a page.
7. Week 7: fetch and promises; call a public API.
8. Week 8: async/await and error handling.
9. Week 9: modules and a first look at a framework.
10. Week 10: a small project from project ideas.

Python (8 weeks)

Resources: Python's official tutorial, CS50's Introduction to Programming with Python

1. Week 1: setup, variables, input and output.
2. Week 2: conditionals and loops.
3. Week 3: functions.
4. Week 4: lists, dictionaries and sets.
5. Week 5: files and exceptions.
6. Week 6: modules, packages and virtual environments.
7. Week 7: a library of your choice (requests, pandas or Flask).
8. Week 8: a small command-line tool or script you'll actually use.

Data structures and algorithms (8 weeks)

Resources: Algorithms Daily, VisuAlgo

1. Week 1: Big-O and arrays.
2. Week 2: hash maps and sets.
3. Week 3: two pointers and sliding windows.
4. Week 4: stacks, queues and linked lists.
5. Week 5: recursion and binary search.
6. Week 6: trees and tree traversal.
7. Week 7: graphs: BFS and DFS.
8. Week 8: dynamic programming basics; mock interviews in pairs.

Cloud and DevOps (6 weeks)

Resources: roadmap.sh DevOps, your cloud provider's free tier

1. Week 1: the command line and Linux basics.
2. Week 2: Git workflows and pull requests.
3. Week 3: containers with Docker.
4. Week 4: CI with GitHub Actions.
5. Week 5: deploying a small app to the cloud.
6. Week 6: monitoring, logs and infrastructure as code.

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