Module 4 - Intermission Pre-Work
Overview
This prework should take no longer than 20 hours to complete the Deliverables. Intermission is absolutely your time to rest and focus on self care. Plan accordingly with your schedules so you don’t add unnecessary stress.
Deliverables
- Open-Source Exploration: Complete exercise. Timebox: 1-2 hours.
- Continuous Integration: Review Lesson and submit exit ticket. Timebox: 2-3 hours.
- Personal Portfolio: Work through the setup and begin customizing your site. Timebox: 5-6 hours
- Professional Development lessons on organizing your job search. Timebox: 2-3 hours
- Demo Showcase Prep: Timebox: 2-6 hours (this will vary depending on the state of your project)
- Your deliverable will be the slides your group plans to use during the Demo Showcase. It does not have to be the final version, but it should be close.
- Job Hunting! Spend 5-8 hours networking, refining documents and applying to jobs. You will be asked how you spent your time in the survey below.
All deliverables must be submitted by Saturday at 5pm MT through this survey
Demo Showcase Prep Guidelines
All incoming Mod 4 students are required to demo their Mod 3 consultancy projects at the Demo Showcase on Wednesday of Week 1.
Presentations should be 8-10 minutes long and include the following:
- Introduce your team and your project
- Why did you create this product, what makes it interesting (you are telling a story here)
- Demo your project
- Add an architecture diagram rather than logo list of tech stack
- This should be a technically grounded presentation, this means you should answer at least one question from each of the following sections:
- Questions about continuing to work on the project:
- As you think about scaling your application to accommodate more users and data, what specific features would you add in order to improve the usability of the app?
- How would your architecture need to change in order to scale your application to accommodate more users and data?
- If you were to continue working on this project, what additional features would you add to help create the best possible user experience?
- What are some ways that you can make your application more accessible?
- Questions about tech stack:
- What about the framework(s) you chose made it/them the right choice for the application you wanted to build?
- Looking back on your choice of technologies, is there anything that you now believe to be limiting the direction you could take the application in? Why or why not?
- Questions about process:
- Other than learning a new language/framework, what was the most significant or interesting technical challenge your team encountered and how did you work together to resolve it?
- What specific processes did you follow in order to better prepare yourselves to be members of software development organizations?
- What type of technical documentation did you create? How did this help streamline communication on your team?
- What were your most effective meetings/methods of communication with your team and what made them effective?
- Questions about continuing to work on the project:
We recommend setting aside specific times to work with your demo team over intermission to finish your demo prep BEFORE week 1 begins. You are responsible for balancing your time between working on the demo project and the tasks below.
Non-Deliverable but Helpful
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Refamiliarize yourself with the basics of reading and evaluating technical documentation
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Watch this video about the HTTP request-response cycle.
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Review this lesson on salary negotiations.
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Try to complete 2-3 technical challenges in your preferred language. Focus on your approach to breaking down the problem, and be sure to timebox yourself. After the timebox, look at a solution or two to see different approaches! You’re welcome to use any platform you’d like, such as Exercism, LeetCode, Codewars, HackerRank, etc.
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Sign up for interview practice with Pramp
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Join Developer Communities!
