Welcome to the How our curriculum works module. This is a 3-part self-taught module designed for new members of our community to build a solid understanding of our curriculum. You will need to start with this prep section before exploring the rest of this module.

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To achieve our mission, we bring people together to build self-empowered communities of learners. To this end, we have 3 community goals for achieving our mission:

We build communities that can self-educate

Self educate means the ability to draw on surrounding resources to learn new skills and concepts. Tech changes all the time. We must develop independent learners who can teach themselves new skills and technologies.

We build communities that can self-coordinate

Self-coordinate means the ability to make things happen with the people we have. Code Your Future isn’t a large company with lots of staff. We’re a community of motivated people who want to help each other. We can’t expect someone else will do everything - we need to make sure we get it done ourselves.

This doesn’t mean we can’t ask for help - we can - but we need to make sure we make the best use of the knowledge and abilities of everyone around us.

If a trainee thinks we need a extra time learning a topic, they should suggest it! If a volunteer thinks a workshop on a topic would be helpful, they should give one, or find someone else who can.

We build communities that can self-evaluate

Self-evaluating means we work out what we’re doing well at, and what we need to improve. If you don’t understand a topic, you should identify this and get help. If you’re expecting to get code review and no one has reviewed your code, you should raise this problem and get help.

Don’t assume someone else will notice you problems and fix them. Every piece of prep, every sprint, every module has learning objectives. Check them before and after you do them. If you aren’t confident you understand the learning objectives, talk about it.

Our curriculum 🧶 🧶 curriculum is a highly structured organisation of resources and tools to guide a community in its educational development. is a FOSS 🧶 🧶 FOSS Free and Open Source Software - anyone can access it and contribute to it. educational project built by members of our community, including volunteers, trainees, and staff. Its purpose is to equip communities with the resources they need to launch a career in the tech industry. The curriculum is our collective solution to the mission of empowering communities to self educate, self coordinate and self evaluate.

The rest of this module is split into three sprints, which you can complete in your own time: self educate, self coordinate and self evaluate. Each sprint is about how to use the curriculum to achieve each of these community goals. For each sprint, you’ll need to start with the prep to introduce yourself to new concepts before doing the tasks in the backlog to understand how you can start engaging with the community. At the end of each sprint, there is a success page. Make sure you have achieved all of the objectives in the list and check them off.

Ready, head to the self educate sprint