Module 1 Resources

Welcome to Module 1

• Here you will find all resources that are associated to your cohort during your time in Module 1!

Clone this repo

• Cloning this repo is the first step to taking advantage of the resources located here.

  • To review from your pre-course work you can run the following command to create a local repository on your computer

    git clone https://github.com/appacademy/Module-1-Resources.git

Updating this repo (DAILY)

• Git is an amazing tool that allows you to have the most up-to-date code your lecturer has written with a few simple steps

  1. Navigate to the Module-1-Resources repo

     cd ~/app_academy/Module-1-Resources

  2. Clear any changes you many have made locally

     git reset --hard

  3. Pull down any changes the lecture may have made while prepping

     git pull

  4. You can then DRAG/DROP the days folder into your own lecture folder

Lectures

• Each lecture has notes and coding examples that you should follow along with. The lecture notes for the day will be called README.md and its associated code will be linked within the README.md. Just like this:

  • Code it out

Weekly Additional Resources

• Each week also has additional resources within that week's folder. Feel free to explore and find some helpful resources that may include things like cheat sheets and additional practice problems.

Recommended Folder Structure

• Organization is key when going through a fast course such as App Academy. As a result here is a recommended file structure that students can follow:

• app_academy (folder)

  • Module-1-Resources (folder)
  • week_1 (folder)
    • w1d1 (folder)
      • lecture(folder)
        • README.md
        • ...
      • projects (folder)
        • file1.js (file)
        • file2.js (file)
        • ...
      • homework (folder)
        • file1.js (file)
        • file2.js (file)
        • ...

Contributing to this repo (staff)

• In order to contribute to this repo, please make sure that you create a pull request so that It can be reviewed by the modular instructor