Hasty Treat - Building Curriculum for Courses
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes discuss how they create courses, design and build curriculum, as well as insights and best practices for content creation.
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Show Notes
4:32 - Wes’ process
- Figure out what to make
- Build the thing you’re teaching in the course
- Have it reviewed by experts
- Simplify and create a linear flow for what you’re teaching
16:25 - Scott’s process
- Chose a topic
- Build the thing
- Create the outline as you go
- Have goals in mind, for individual topics
- Record with final code open
28:25 - How to get started
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Monday, Monday, Monday, |
| 0:02.0 | Open wide Dev fans. |
| 0:04.0 | Get ready to stuff your face |
| 0:06.0 | with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, |
| 0:09.0 | get workflows, |
| 0:10.0 | break dancing, soft skills, web development, |
| 0:12.0 | the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is |
| 0:18.1 | Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Tauru loco Tolinsky |
| 0:26.0 | Oh welcome to syntax |
| 0:29.0 | This is the podcast with the Hello. This is a Monday edition of syntax also known as a hasty treat. |
| 0:47.0 | So let's get ready for this hasty treat in which we're going to be talking about course |
| 0:51.2 | curriculums. A lot of people ask us how we develop our |
| 0:54.1 | courses, which they can range from short courses to long courses to monthly reoccurring courses to |
| 1:01.2 | all sorts of stuff. So we're going to talk all about how we make our |
| 1:05.1 | courses and some of the insights and how we develop our content. |
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| 1:19.1 | end. I also run it on my node server. And what happens is that any time there's an error in your user's |
| 1:24.4 | browser or on your your server side what it does is it collects all of those |
| 1:28.6 | errors and provides it to you in a really smart backend that will allow you to peer into why those |
| 1:36.6 | errors happened what happened to the errors when are they happening on what |
| 1:39.8 | kinds of browsers where in the world are they they happening? You can attach specific data to a user. |
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