Learning resources from the Prescription Free Academy of Web Development and Software Engineering.
These are tasks that are available to work on in order to gain experience. They’re rough notes intended for looking over when someone has availability.
Talk to Nigel if you’re interested in getting involved.
Check repos for open issues. There are various interesting tasks open to work on. Every repo has its issues linked from the learning initiatives page.
Create a procedure for setting up a new project.
Only link the library nav if it’s not the current page. Highlight the current page.
Complete the class notes for DOM manipulation.
Improve the design for the academy library. Work with YAML, Jekyll static site generation and GitHub Pages.
Complete the CSS Flexbox Learning Project.
Improve the CSS section of the online resources page.
Write class notes for CSS selectors. Using pseudo-selectors to avoid excessive identifiers. Research the topic and work with Nigel to create the notes.
Write class notes for methods to add CSS to HTML. Research the topic and work with Nigel to create the notes.
Complete setting up the Semantic HTML Learning Project.
Complete setting up the Website Widget Practice Project.
Complete setting up the Exchange Tickers Practice Project.
Set up web application architecture diagrams.
Practice project for working with different browser events.
Set up a Web Components Learning Project. See DOM Manipulation Class Notes. Basically a learning project to work with that.
Set up Practice Project: Abstract DOM Manipulation. Create an abstraction for DOM Manipulation.
These have not yet progressed to being assigned as tasks. They are ideas for possible future development.
Learning project for a simple Express API that makes mathematical calculations.
Practice Project for Jekyll Static Site Builder - Set up GitHub Pages Site.
Create a website using a mobile git client. GitHub Pages. Working Copy. Git.
Learning Project - Git Basics.
Learning Project for API Use - Weather Data API.
Decoupled request processing project where a website process doesn’t get lost if the tab is closed.
Learning project (?) for working with dates and times.
Practice project setting up a form processing cgi-bin type script for learning HTTP without XHR.
Learning project for information architecture.
Learning project for URLs.
Learning project for HTTP.
Learning project for “drop in” JavaScript. Techniques for adding bits of JS to pages to provide functionality on otherwise static pages.
Uptime monitor practice project.