Curriculum Outline

[Ethan-Arrowood]

Curriculum Outline

In the root directory of the project there will exist a directory: challenges, and a file called classroom_settings.json

The challenges directory will contain each lesson directory title like so: [C#].[L#].<name> i.e. 2.1.Addition (means the Addition lesson is Lesson 1 of Chapter 2).
Due note that chapter and lesson numbers is for our organization purposes and will not be reflected in the Repl.it Classroom.

Each lesson directory will contain four files:

1. lesson_code.py
2. lesson_tests.py
3. lesson.md
4. lesson_settings.json

lesson_code.py will be loaded into the initial-code section (top left container) of the classroom.

lesson_tests.py will be loaded into a hidden unittest file (behind the scenes).

lesson.md will be loaded into the markdown section (bottom right container) of the classroom.

lesson_settings.json will be used to store information such as Title, Chapter, Lesson number, ID(?). This will mainly be for FCC, but repl will be able to utilize the Title property and maybe the ID property.

Each Repl.it Classroom lesson url will be added to the challenges.json file in the project root directory.

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[Down The Road] - implement a python script that auto builds the challenges.json file

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The current structure for the FCC Python Curriculum is: Beginner Section, Intermediate Section, & Special Topic Section.

Beginner Section:

• Introduction to Python
• Output
  • Print
  • Escape Characters
  • input
• Data Types
  • Integers, Floats
  • Strings
  • Tuples
  • Lists
  • Sets
  • Dictionaries
• Operators - bgroveben
  • +,-, *, /, %, **
  • <, >, <=, >=, ==, !=
  • =
  • True, False, and, or, not
  • in, not in
  • is, is not
• Math - bgroveben
  • Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide
  • Power, sqrt(), abs(), round(), sum(), max(), min()
• Variables
• Conditionals
  • if, elif, else
• Loops
  • while, for (in range), for (in list), for (in string)
• Functions
• Classes

Intermediate Section:

• File I/O
• Iterators & Generators
• Lambda - robbiemu
• Conditionals
• OOP
• Modules, Libraries, Packages
• File and Error Handling
• Advanced Objects and DataTypes
• Print Formatting
• List Comprehensions
• Decorators

Special Topic Section:

• Machine Learning
• Game Development
• Webscraping (BeautifulSoup)
• GIS (Leaflet/Folium)
• Flask/Django (better to focus on one not both)
• Data Analysis (Panda/Numpy)
• Data Visualization (brokeh)
• GUI (tkinter)
• Geocoding (geopy)
• Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)

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[Ethan-Arrowood]

Challenges/Lessons posted on previous thread
freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp#14588 (comment)

freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp#14588 (comment)

https://github.com/bgroveben/FCC_Python

[Ethan-Arrowood]

In the root directory of the project there will exist a directory: challenges.
Inside will contain each lesson directory titled as so: [lesson title]_C[chapter#]_L[lesson#]

For example: Addition_C2_L1<- This means the Addition lesson is Lesson 1 of Chapter 2

Each lesson directory will contain four files:

1. lesson_code.py
2. lesson_tests.py
3. lesson.md
4. lesson_settings.json

lesson_code.py will be loaded into the initial-code section (top left container) of the classroom.

lesson_tests.py will be loaded into a hidden unittest file (behind the scenes).

lesson.md will be loaded into the markdown section (bottom right container) of the classroom.

lesson_settings.json will be used to store information such as Title, Chapter, Lesson number, ID(?). This will mainly be for FCC, but repl will be able to utilize the Title property and maybe the ID property.

Here is an EXAMPLE layout:

*Special Note - the challenges.json file will be used to track user progress via localStorage. May be worth writing a py script to build this automatically based on the challenges directory using the lesson_settings.json file inside each lesson directory. [Down the road feature?]

[Ethan-Arrowood]

@bgroveben @QuincyLarson @ginoskotheon Can I get some feedback on the previous comment before I send it to Amjad?

[amasad]

This looks good! One question: how do you see the Chapter mapping on the Repl.it's taxonomy? Would it be the Classroom? Alternatively, it doesn't have to map to anything and we just prefix the assignment name with the chapter.

[Ethan-Arrowood]

@amasad I don't think it needs to map to anything on Repl.it's taxonomy (unless you plan on implementing chapters into classrooms in the future 😉). For the moment it'll just keep things more organized on our end.

[amasad]

Yeah we might add chapters, some users asked for it, but for now we'll just leave it out. Are you ok with having the titles (directory names) have spaces and special characters? I'm fine with it, it just might make it harder for the authors.

Some other thoughts:

1. We can use book-like format since people should be already familiar with [C#].[L#].<name> e.g. 2.1.Addition
2. I think we'll need a top-level json settings for Repl.it to specify things like the classroom name, language, and if you want students to finish a lesson to unlock the one after etc.

[Ethan-Arrowood]

We can use book-like format since people should be already familiar with [C#].[L#]. e.g. 2.1.Addition

Yes! I like this layout a lot. What would we do if the name is multiple words? i.e. Logic Operators
Would it be: 1.5.LogicOperators or 1.5.Logic_Operators or (something else entirely).
Directories can have special characters and underscores, but no spaces (keeps scripting easier).

I think we'll need a top-level json settings for Repl.it to specify things like the classroom name, language, and if you want students to finish a lesson to unlock the one after etc.

Would you like me to add a classroom_settings.json file in the challenges directory?

[amasad]

I think underscores for spaces might work best.
classroom_settings.json works well.

[Ethan-Arrowood]

sounds good to me. I'll start implementing this structure tomorrow 👍

[bgroveben]

@Ethan-Arrowood @amasad I like the layout and the naming conventions -- looks good!

[bgroveben]

@Ethan-Arrowood We may want to update the gulpfile to watch for changes to the *.py, *.json, and *.md files we're writing for the lessons.

[Ethan-Arrowood]

Okay challenge directory has been pushed to master. Lets start writing challenges directly in the appropriate directories. Also, feel free to reorganize things as you see best fit I just pre filled it so there was some sort of structure present.

[whmcdonaldiii]

@Ethan-Arrowood Looks great. I'll start trying to get some challenges going.

[bgroveben]

Outstanding @Ethan-Arrowood ! I have written some of the lessons included in your challenges directory (as well as a few others); you can preview them in this Repl.it Classroom. I just need to make sure that the file and directory structure is consistent, update the tests, and see that everything works. Great job and thanks again!