During this course you will learn how to:

• Design and facilitate workshops
• Test your prototypes with users
• mash up Web technologies to make tools (aka apps) that everyone can use.

In particular, you will:

• Learn how to design a workshop
• Become familiar with facilitating a workshop
• Get familiar with the principles of programming, putting these into practice with JavaScript
• Research and use code libraries (such as jQuery) and integrate them in your project
• Develop your computational thinking skills with weekly coding challenges
• Analyse the mechanics of applications, breaking down their behaviours into data, functions and logic
• Create proof-of-concept functional prototypes for Web applications, which manipulate data from online database(s) and/or API(s)
• Work in teams, learning from your peers and teaching them what you learned
• Document your work regularly and reflect on your creative process
• Communicate your ideas both technically and in an engaging way
• Back up your project files using the Git version-control system (through GitHub)

Plan

When	In class	Homework	Blog
Tuesday 03.10	Welcome How do you design a workshop?	Peer-learning	What can be some of the challenges when running a workshop?
Tuesday 17.10	Peer learning How we do design a workshop?	Prepare for Formative	Why is it important that we prototype our ideas and test it with users?
Tuesday 24.10	Formative presentations intro to HTML/CSS/JavaScript	Tweak workshop design Peer-to-peer mini lesson	Analyse your favourite app in terms of interface, data and logic
28.10	Workshop faciliation!		What is your biggest learning so far from this project? Create your own title!
Tuesday 31.10	Mini-lesson Data & Api's Codewars	Complete at least 2 challenges (aka katas) on the beginner level (aka 8 kyu)	Pair up with another person (not your team mate) and give each other feedback on your peer learning mini-lessons.
Tuesday 07.11	Quiz time! Finishing app template Design your own database Codewars	Tweak your app	Watch: The best interface is no interface
Tuesday 21.11	Workshop: Map & other functionality	Work on Filtr Findr	WTF is an API?
Tuesday 05.11	TBA		Reflect on this project as a whole
Tuesday 12.12	Summative presentations

Project

Part 1: Design and facilitate a workshop at the Mozilla Festival where you can test your prototypes

Part 2: Bring your prototypes to life with code

This individual project is about using code and data to create a helpful experience for a community of people.

Learning goals

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Create proof-of-concept functional prototypes for Web applications, which manipulate data from online database(s) and/or API(s).

• Analyse the mechanics of a Web application, breaking down its behaviour into data, functions and logic.
• Understand the role of the three pillar technologies of the Web: HTML, CSS and JS.
• Research and use interaction APIs (aka code libraries like jQuery) and integrate them in your project.
• Understand how data APIs function (HTTP requests, API keys, URL parameters etc.) and hook up one or more APIs to your Web application.
• Apply your understanding and experiment on your own: refine, test and debug your code.
• Feel confident searching for solutions to design challenges and coding issues.
• Look critically at APIs as communication protocols that are made and enforced by people: what does an API allow you to do, what does it not, who should be able to use it and why, are some of the questions you will seek to answer.
• Document your design and development process, from the exploration of ideas to their practical implementation. Including successes and failures.
• Communicate your ideas both technically and in an engaging way.

Rules of the road

• Be present. If you happen to be late or absent, make sure you email me about it before a session starts.
• Participate in class debates and workshops. We'll make sure that your ideas have space to be heard and that nobody makes you feel uncomfortable about sharing them.
• Present your work during formative and summative assessments. If you can't make it those days then you'll record your presentation and upload it to YouTube (or similar).
• Be responsible for what happens in class. Organise with your peers to get class information and material that you may have missed.
• Meet the deadlines. If you submit your work after a deadline, your grade will be capped at D- (bare pass).

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License