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Semantic HTML

Semantic HTML is writing HTML in a way that it can be read and understood by both people and internet readers or search bots. Correctly written HTML should indicate what each part is relative to the rest of the app. You're going to write a static webpage using semantic html

Terminal Practice

Terminal Practice

In this exercise you will be using most common terminal commands that you'll need in order to succeed in this class. The things you can do in the terminal are virtually endless, but we just want to focus on the most commonly used and basic. Every task in this assignment

Lesson and Exercise Creation Guide

Whenever creating Lessons and Exercises Lessons 1. Teach Concepts first 2. Use visualizations 3. Demonstrate skills with examples and live coding 4. Have them code along with you 5. Intersperse small practice sections (5-10 min. in length) throughout the lesson to immediately apply what is being taught Exercises 1. Integrate

CSS Wars: The Selector Awakens

CSS Wars: The Selector Awakens

In this exercise you will use several css selectors to restyle elements of this page. The HTML base is already written for you and is found below for you to copy into your project. Complete the following: 1. Select the body and give it a background color of #111111. 2.

Project Creation Guide

Student projects serve several purposes. First, they give real-world application of multiple concepts and pieces of knowledge learned up to that point. Projects should involve the integration, or even sum, of everything that has been taught so far in the course. This reinforcement of skills is a great way to

Teaching Problem Solving

Ultimately problem solving is the application of varying knowledge sets to a unique scenario. If we've encountered the scenario before--or one very close to it--and know how to solve it then we're no longer really problem solving but rather applying a method or equation to a new set of data.

Pokemon Pals

Exercise requirements You will have two routes 1. /pokemon 2. /pokemon/details The first route will make an http request to get a pokedex (http://pokeapi.co/api/v1/pokedex/{some-id}/). You will list each pokemon by name. Next to each pokemon will be a "details" button. When this button

Teaching for Comprehension

Adult learners are different from children. The people that come to V School are typically in their twenties or thirties, have had one or more careers or jobs, and are now making a career change. One key difference is that adults require context in everything that they do. They have

Problem Solving

Problem Solving

Problem Solving

Problem solving is the most important skill you will take out of this course. Without it, you are not truly a developer. You may have learned to repeat steps shown to you with a few minor changes but if you can't take that knowledge and apply it and mix it

Web Applications

'High' on 'Potenuse' & Services

Below we have an example controller that has several methods for geometric calculations on a right triangle. app.controller('TriangleController', ['$scope', function ($scope) { // here we have a triangle object $scope.triangle = { base: undefined, height: undefined }; $scope.findArea = function () { $scope.area = 0.5 * $scope.triangle.base * $scope.triangle.height }; $scope.

Programming Principles

Employee Records

You are to create a collection of employee's information for your company. Each employee has the following attributes: 1. Name 2. Job title 3. Salary 4. Status First, you will create an empty array named employees Next, you will create an Employee constructor with the first three attributes defined at

Programming Principles

JavaScript Data Types & Function Arguments

JavaScript is made up of essentially two categories of data types with differing characteristics. Type 1: Primitive Data The primitive data types are: 1. Strings 2. Numbers 3. Booleans Primitive data types all share the characteristic of immutability, or the inability to be changed. All operations on primitive data types

Problem Solving

How to Solve It

Intro To Solving Problems Programming, particularly web development, is made up of numerous parts that require various bits of knowledge and skill to do. While this course will focus on the concrete skills of web development using JavaScript, AngularJS, Node and MongoDB, There is one skill that transcends all the