Class Information

Online classes
At the moment, due to the Covid situation, all our teaching activities happen online through ZOOM. Please find some important information about our online class below:
Cameras
Most students don't like to connect to the camera, but please ask them in a friendly way to still enable them. Some students have good reasons to disable it - we will inform you in advance about this.
Breakout Rooms
In each class on saturday we will create a breakout room with maximum 4 students, so they can work together in the exercises. The supporting instructors can be assigned to a group and the main mentor can switch through them.
Support in the classes
In each class, the following people are present:
Yogi, Vincent and/or Diana to manage
The Main Instructor
One or more supporting instructors
Outside the classes, there are many volunteers to further help students.
Weekly class structure
Lecture Day (Weekday)
1.Introduction to the week's materials
2.Teaching/explaining the materials
3.Doing exercises now and then to practice
4.Give homework to be finished for Saturday class
Practice Day (Saturday)
1.Finish any remaining explanations from the weekday class
2.Check together, solve doubts and fix the Homework exercises
3.List of exercises depends on the week
Class structure
In general, we maintain the following class structure:
1.5 hours teaching to start with
10 mins break
then 1 hour teaching
15 mins break
1 hour of teaching
Before the class
10 minutes before the class we will share the Zoom link in the class channels (i.e. Jan2020-1). Around 18h all students will join and we will start the class then as well.
If you are a new (supporting) instructor, feel free to write a quick intro about yourself in the class channel before the class starts! Or you can introduce yourself in the class, of course.
At the beginning of the class
1.Migracode Team will manage the first 5 minutes, with an introduction
2.Then we will split the class in 2 groups: Spanish and English students
3.The Main & Supporting Instructors can do a quick introduction (Introduce yourself, explain where you work, etc.)
4.Then the main instructor will lead the class
At the end of the class
The main instructor will explain and copy the Homework in the Trello Board. Our Head of Education will help you with this as well.
Class Example
Exercises Repositories in Github
All the exercises students should complete during the class, as homework and on saturday, are all inside a GitHub repository that they fork and clone every module. The structure is as follows:
For each week of the module we have a folder with the week number week-1
Inside each week folder, we can find 3 folders:
InClass: exercises they should complete during the class
Homework: exercises they should complete after the class and before Saturday
Extra: optional exercises students can complete when they want
See a repository example​
Tools that we use
As a mentor you can use the O.S. that you have, or you can use other tools not listed taking into account to not confuse students
Slack: for main communication with students
Trello: to find the homework and to manage the final projects
ZOOM: to be used for the online classes and breakout rooms
Ubuntu: most students have Ubuntu, but there are some students with Mac or Windows
Visual Code: is the IDE we use for all the languages during the course
Git: all the students have a GitHub account and push their exercises always using the Terminal
Node: is the tool we use to execute by command line scripts without UI
NPM: to install modules and to execute Web Servers
Chrome: Browser we normally use, and we teach how to use the inspector
PostgreSQL
DBeaver: as an SQL client with UI
Know your students
To see the students progress ask for access to the Students Progress sheet.