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.

A quick break of fifteen minutes so we can all concentrate on the next piece of work.

This week you’re building small UI components/apps using DOM manipulation. The aim of this session is to get together in groups and discuss strategy and implementation for the week’s backlog issues.

🧰 Setup

1. You’ll need to get into groups of no more than three

2. Choose one of the “Build a …” issues e.g. “Build a slideshow app” from your JS2 Week 3 backlog. It can be an app that one of you have already started or one that you’d all like to tackle together during this session.

3. Have one person in your group share their screen.

4. As a group, you’ll have to discuss your strategy and implementation for your chosen issue. Remember to use the acceptance criteria to check your progress.

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.

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

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.

For the final week of this module, you will need to work in pairs to build an application from scratch.

Use this time to setup and plan your work together for next week.

🧰 Setup

1. You’ll need to split up into pairs with someone you can work with over the final week of this module. Double check you will have availability to work together during the week.

2. Together in your pairs, you’ll have 2 options:

Option 1

Choose an app from the backlog that you can work on together from scratch. E.g. alarmclock app.

Option 2

Choose a project brief from the from the dom-app projects section.
and

1. Read the project brief carefully

2. Create a user story for the chosen project brief and sketch out one acceptance criterion based on the description in the project brief. This workshop will guide you on coming up with user stories and acceptance criteria.

⏲️ Availability

In your pairs, discuss your availability and then agree on times to meet up during next week to work on your app together.