Daily Bruin Online Training Syllabus

Last updated for Fall 2018

Instructors: Byron Lutz

Materials: Bring your laptop and a charger to each training session.

All software we use is free and mostly open-source. Time and Locations:

Office Hours: By appointment! Email Byron! Mike, Nathan, and Hongyi are also available to help you out.

Outline

This training is designed to be divided into small 1–2 hour talks.

1. Web Development Tools and Git
2. HTML & CSS
3. Introduction to Journalism
4. Web Design
5. JavaScript
6. Advanced JavaScript
7. Python
8. Web Frameworks with Express and Django
9. Databases
10. Docker and Deployments
11. Introduction to Journalism 2: Data Journalism Edition
12. Data Cleaning and Analysis
13. Web Data Visualizations with Chart.js and d3
14. Writing Data Stories