πŸ§‘πŸ½β€πŸ€β€πŸ§‘πŸ½ day-plan

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  1. Energiser
  2. Morning orientation
  3. Teamwork Project Sprint 1
  4. Lunch
  5. Study Group
  6. Code Review
  7. Afternoon break
  8. Study Group
  9. Retrospective

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πŸ”‹ Energiser

Every session begins with an energiser. Usually there’s a rota showing who will lead the energiser. We have some favourite games you can play if you are stuck.

  1. Traffic Jam: re-order the cars to unblock yourself
  2. Telephone: draw the words and write the pictures
  3. Popcorn show and tell: popcorn around the room and show one nearby object or something in your pocket or bag and explain what it means to you.

🎑 Morning orientation

Learning Objectives

Planning during the week

🧭 During the week, create a post on Slack and get some people to take on the roles of facilitator and timekeeper. Nominate new people each time.

πŸ‘£ Steps

If you haven’t done so already, choose someone (volunteer or trainee) to be the facilitator for this morning orientation block. Choose another to be the timekeeper.

πŸŽ™οΈ The Facilitator will:

  1. Assemble the entire group (all volunteers & all trainees) in a circle
  2. Briefly welcome everyone with an announcement, like this:

    πŸ’¬ “Morning everyone, Welcome to CYF {REGION}, this week we are working on {MODULE} {SPRINT} and we’re currently working on {SUMMARISE THE TOPICS OF THE WEEK}”

  3. Ask any newcomers to introduce themselves to the group, and welcome them.
  4. Now check: is it the start of a new module? Is it sprint 1? If so, read out the success criteria for the new module.
  5. Next go through the morning day plan only (typically on the curriculum website) - and check the following things:

Facilitator Checklist

  • Check the number of volunteers you have for the morning
  • Check someone is leading each session
  • Describe how any new activities works for the group
  • Decide how best to allocate trainees and volunteers for a given block - most blocks will make this clear

⏰ The Timekeeper will:

  • Announce the start of an activity and how long it will take (check everyone is listening)
  • Manage any whole class timers that are used in an activity
  • Give people a 10-minute wrap-up warning before the end of an activity
  • Announce the end of an activity and what happens next

Teamwork Project S1

Learning Objectives

Preparation

You must have done the prep work.

Introduction

Collaborative software development equals higher-quality products and efficient development cycles. Team synergy, knowledge, and diverse skills are crucial to achieving this. We are going to talk about these roles and their responsibilities.

Brainstorm about teamwork in the tech industry.

🎯 Goal: Discuss teamwork in the tech industry. (35 minutes)

Think about the teams you will work with in tech. Discuss in your team:

  • What is your dream job?
  • What professional roles will be in your team?
  • What other people/teams will you interact with?
  • What non-technical skills will you bring?
  • What non-technical skills should you develop while at CYF?
  • Which of the Belbin’s tole do you identify strongest with?
  1. Define which team member wο»Ώill be the time keeper for your team.
  2. Work in your teams for about 10 minutes and write down brief answers to each question.
  3. Assign one of the team members as speaker to deliver your answers back to the class in maximum 2 minutes.

Discuss the roles in a product team

🎯 Goal: To discuss the importance of different roles in tech teams. (10 minutes)

The following are the roles typically found within a development team. As you see, there are plenty of roles other than β€˜Full-Stack Developer’.

Discuss as a class the responsibilities of the following tech roles.

Write a brief description for each of them on a post-it and share the post it on a collaborative board:

  • Front-end web developer
  • Back-end web developer
  • UX/UI designer
  • UX researcher
  • Product manager
  • Quality Assurance/Quality Engineer (tester)
  • Tech lead

Team Charter

🎯 Goal: To discuss the importance of setting clear goals and responsibilities within a team. (15 minutes)

You might come across a ceremony called β€œteam charter” in your future work.

Team charters define roles, responsibilities and ways of working. If these are not clear to you when you join a new company, you should ask and seek clarification urgently.

Discuss as a class:

  • Why is it important for your team to understand their main goal?
  • Why is it important for everybody on your team to understand the role each other plays?
  • What is the importance of having clear ways of working?
  • What happens when you are not clear about these three points?

Spend the rest of your time clarifying any questions about the project and the coursework for the first week.

🍽️ Community Lunch

Every Saturday we cook and eat together. We share our food and our stories. We learn about each other and the world. We build community.

This is everyone’s responsibility, so help with what is needed to make this happen, for example, organising the food, setting up the table, washing up, tidying up, etc. You can do something different every week. You don’t need to be constantly responsible for the same task.

πŸ›— Study Group

Learning Objectives

What are we doing now?

You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.

Use this time wisely

You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:

  • work through the coursework
  • ask questions and get unblocked
  • give and receive code review
  • work on your portfolio
  • develop your own projects

πŸ›ŽοΈ Code waiting for review πŸ”—

Below are trainee coursework Pull Requests that need to be reviewed by volunteers.

London | May 2025 | Hendrine Zeraua | Sprint 2 | Book Library πŸ”—

Learners, PR Template

Self checklist

  • I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
  • I have titled my PR with Region | Cohort | FirstName LastName | Sprint | Assignment Title
  • I have tested my changes
  • My changes follow the style guide
  • My changes meet the requirements of this task

Changelist

Briefly explain your PR.

This PR updates the My Book Library project to fix bugs and improve code readability.

  • Corrected form validation to require title, author, and a positive page number
  • Fixed incorrect use of title as author when adding a book
  • Fixed broken delete button and read/unread toggle
  • Updated DOM rendering to be safer and clearer
  • Cleaned up HTML structure and input types
  • Removed placeholder table row and used a proper button for submit
  • Left CSS as-is since it’s functional and meets current needs

The project now loads initial books, allows adding/removing books, and correctly updates read status.

Questions

Ask any questions you have for your reviewer.

Start a review
London | 25-ITP-May | Houssam Lahlah | Sprint 1 | Feature/destructuring πŸ”—

Self checklist

  • I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
  • I have titled my PR with Region | Cohort | FirstName LastName | Sprint | Assignment Title
  • I have tested my changes
  • My changes follow the style guide
  • My changes meet the requirements of this task

## Changelist

- Exercise 1:

  • Answered the question in the Readme file.
  • Updated the parameter to this function to make it work.
  • Used object destructuring in introduceYourself parameter.

- Exercise 2:

  • Writed a function named displayGryffindors that takes an object with multiple properties.
  • Displayed the names of the people who belong to the Gryffindor house.

- Exercise 3:

  • Created a function to print the order details
  • Used destructuring to access to multiple properties.
  • Calculated total price for each item.
  • Calculated total cost of the order.
  • Matched the exact formatting of the expected result.

## Questions

  1. Is my use of object destructuring in the functions clear and efficient, or could it be simplified?
  2. Are my variable names descriptive enough for readability and understanding?
  3. Did I follow best practices in calculating totals and formatting the order output in Exercise 3?
  4. Are there any edge cases I might have missed for the functions I wrote?
Start a review
London | 25-ITP-May | Halimatou Saddiyaa | Sprint 3 | Programmer humour πŸ”—

Learners, PR Template

Self checklist

  • I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
  • I have titled my PR with Region | Cohort | FirstName LastName | Sprint | Assignment Title
  • I have tested my changes
  • My changes follow the style guide
  • My changes meet the requirements of this task

Changelist

I’ve implemented a programmer humour app with the following requirements:

  • The program gets the json using Fetch.
  • The function should make an API call to the given endpoint: https://xkcd.now.sh/?comic=latest
  • It should log the received data to the console
  • It should render the img property into an tag in the DOM
  • It should Incorporate error handling

Please review my PR.

Questions

Ask any questions you have for your reviewer.

Start a review
ZA | 25-ITP-May | Malusi Skunyana | Data Flows | Destructuring πŸ”—

Learners, PR Template

Self checklist

  • I have committed my files one by one, on purpose, and for a reason
  • I have titled my PR with Region | Cohort | FirstName LastName | Sprint | Assignment Title
  • I have tested my changes
  • My changes follow the style guide
  • My changes meet the requirements of this task

Changelist

Refactor exercises to use object destructuring

Exercise 1: Updated introduceYourself to destructure personOne in the function parameter.

Exercise 2:

  • Task 1: Display Gryffindor members’ full names.
  • Task 2: Display teachers with pets.
  • Destructuring used for clean access to object properties.

Exercise 3: Print takeout receipt with item totals and overall total, using destructuring for order items and formatting output to match expected results.

All exercises now leverage object destructuring for concise, readable code.

Questions

Ask any questions you have for your reviewer.

Start a review
LONDON | MAY 2025 | JESUS DEL MORAL | DATA FLOWS | BOOK LIBRARY πŸ”—

topics: debugging, DOM My website should be able to:

View a list of books that I’ve read Add books to a list of books that I’ve read Including title, author, number of pages and if I’ve read it If any of the information is missing it shouldn’t add the book and should show an alert Remove books from my list Bugs to be fixed Website loads but doesn’t show any books Error in console when you try to add a book It uses the title name as the author name Delete button is broken When I add a book that I say I’ve read - it saves the wrong answer I think there are other some other small bugs in my code…but I’m lazy so I can’t fix them all.

I wish somebody would help me!

Start a review
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πŸ«– Afternoon Break

Please feel comfortable and welcome to pray at this time if this is part of your religion.

If you are breastfeeding and would like a private space, please let us know.

πŸ›— Study Group

Learning Objectives

What are we doing now?

You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.

Use this time wisely

You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:

  • work through the coursework
  • ask questions and get unblocked
  • give and receive code review
  • work on your portfolio
  • develop your own projects

πŸ”„ Retro: Start / Stop / Continue

πŸ•ΉοΈRetro (20 minutes)

A retro is a chance to reflect. You can do this on RetroTool (create a free anonymous retro and share the link with the class) or on sticky notes on a wall.

  1. Set a timer for 5 minutes. There’s one on the RetroTool too.
  2. Write down as many things as you can think of that you’d like to start, stop, and continue doing next sprint.
  3. Write one point per note and keep it short.
  4. When the timer goes off, one person should set a timer for 1 minute and group the notes into themes.
  5. Next, set a timer for 2 minutes and all vote on the most important themes by adding a dot or a +1 to the note.
  6. Finally, set a timer for 8 minutes and all discuss the top three themes.