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Git Practice

20 min

• Initialize a new directory in your workspace

1. cd into ~/code/wdi and mkdir a new folder called git_practice
2. cd into git_practice
3. Run git init to initialize a new Git repository

• Create 3 new files

1. Run touch file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt

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JavaScript Basics

Learning Objectives

• Explain what a programming language is
• Explain what JavaScript is and how it fits into front end web development
• List the primitive data types
• Explain what variables are and why they are useful in a program
• Create a variable and assign a value to it
• Use common operators with variables and literals for arithmetic, string concatenation, and assigning values to variables

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Currency Converter

20 min

Find the exchange rate between dollars and pounds

• Write a function dollarsToPounds that takes a dollar number as input and outputs a string of what the pound equivalent is.

"$_____ is £_____"

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JavaScript Objects

Learning Objectives

• Describe what an object is and how it differs from an array
• Initialize an empty object using the object literal syntax
• Describe what a key-value store is an why it is valuable as a data structure
• Define what object properties and methods are
• Contrast the JS object dot notation with bracket notation
• Add properties to an existing object using the dot notation

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My Austin Food Truck

25 min

There's no shortage of great options for food trucks in Austin, but you've got an idea for one that would top them all. Let's create a JavaScript object that would do your imaginary food truck justice.

The End Result

With your completed food truck object, we'll be able to access the following properties and methods:

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Advanced Git(Hub)

In this lesson we'll cover branching, merging, and working with teams

Lesson Objectives

• Review the basic commands for Git
• Explain what a branch is and why we would use one
• Create and switch between branches
• Destroy a branch

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Git Haiku

Pair Programming - 25 min

Partner One

• On GitHub, create a new public repo called cold_day
• Add your partner as a collaborator to the repo so they can write to it
• git clone this repo to your local machine and cd into it
• Create a branch called line_one and switch to it with git checkout -b

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The Software Development Life Cycle

Learning Objectives

Conceptual

• Explain what SDLC is and why we use it
• Provide a general overview of what "Agile" means and compare it to Waterfall
• Explain what SCRUM is, and how it relates to agile.
• Describe the process of requirements gathering.
• Explain what a user story is, and what specific points it should include.

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User Stories for Craigslist

Pair Exercise - 15 min

Using index cards, write 5-10 user stories for a Craigslist website clone. Assign a point value from 1-3 for use later.

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Pivotal Tracker

20 min

Using Pivotal Tracker (https://www.pivotaltracker.com), add the user stories from the previous exercise into the backlog and prioritize them.