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Week Week of Technical Philosophical HW out HW Due Notes

June 17

Start: Sign up for webservices, get server up, node/npm, basic JS (l2)

Introduction: a startup is a business built to grow rapidly (l1)

HW1 out June 19 at 5pm PT HW2 out June 26 at 5pm PT HW3 out July 3 at 5pm PT HW1 due July 3 at 11:59pm Pacific Time (Extended to July 3, 11:59 pm Pacific Time)

HW1: easy to allow late start

June 24

Dev Environment: Unix CLI, git, emacs, REPL, dotfiles, edit HTML (l3, l4a, l4b)

Your market: The most important choice in a startup (l5)

July 1

Product/Design: Market research, wireframing, design, HTML/CSS (l5, l6) Deployment, DNS, Domains (l7). Mobile:

Some basic principles of market research, design (l5)

HW2 due July 6 at 11:59pm Pacific Time

July 8

HTTP, user agents, RWD, Bootstrap (l8)

Why do VCs love mobile/local/social? And what will they love next? (l9)

HW4 out July 12 at 5pm PT

HW3 due July 11 at 11:59pm Pacific Time

July 15

Intermediate JS (l10).

Regulation, disruption, and the technologies of 2013 (l11)

HW5 out July 21 (evening

HW4 due July 22 at 11:59pm Pacific Time (Extended to Monday July 22)
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PT) Buffer Week I

July 22

Buffer Week I - catch up and review materials

Buffer Week I - catch up and review materials

July 29

Backend JS: Async, Flow Control, Node Debugging (l12)

How to disrupt everything, including the government

HW6 out July 31 at 5pm PT HW7 out Aug 7 at 5pm PT Final Project focus begins HW5 due July 31 at 11:59pm Pacific Time

Aug 5

Full Stack JS I: Set up REST JSON API, client-side templating (l14)

Founding, conception, composition, and capitalization

HW6 due Aug 7 at 11:59pm Pacific Time

HW7: short to allow focus

Aug 8 12

Full Stack JS II: Consume APIs, widget as API client, data pipeline (l15)

Dev scaling: engineers vs. CPUs. DRY, docs, tests, code review

FP worked on HW7 due Aug 14 at 11:59pm Pacific Time all quarter, but now total focus

Buffer Week II

Aug 19

Buffer Week II - catch up and review materials

Buffer Week II - catch up and review materials

Aug 26

Marketing: Video Editing, Analytics, CAC/LTV/Funnel Final Project

Business scaling: sales, marketing, PR, the funnel, finance, accounting FP winners declared at Sept. 8, 2013 at 11:59pm
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Summary and Recap

Summary and Recap

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