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Curriculum Philosophy and Code of Conduct
This describes the overall premise of a group of folks wanting to review the curriculum for Ada Developer Academy's core program.
This committee should be a group of individuals from different backgrounds committed to the quality and practicality of this curriculum, the program it supports (Ada Developer Academy's core program), and the mission it supports.
We operate with a Code of Conduct based on the Contributor Covenant v2.0.
Extending our CoC, we also explicitly prioritize the voices of underrepresented people in tech, and their contributions, suggestions, feedback, comments, safety, health, and well-being in this committee.
Work done through the Core Curriculum Review Committee should reflect the mission, values, guides, rules, patterns, and alignment outlined in the rest of the core wiki.
The high-level learning goals for this curriculum are to gain skills in how to...
- Learn how to learn
- Write Code
- Debug Code
- Communicate About Code
- Practice practical career preparation
- Build an inclusive tech community
Our curriculum is... / When we develop curriculum, we want it to be...
- Accessible
- Fun
- Every topic has clear relevance to a bigger topic or goal
- Self-sufficient as a document
- Empowering, respectful, and gentle
- Collaboratively and democratically developed
Something to explicitly name is that the learning goals for the curriculum has currently largely been determined through a combination of research with alum, company partners, educators, hiring managers, and other curricula. Suggestions for topics to teach is discouraged.
Our curriculum vision is to describe our curriculum as...
- "Captures not only facts about programming, but deeper thinking"
- "This program paves the way for structural change"
- "... Transformed lives and families, giving tools to help people be financially stable."
As much as possible and is respectful, we should treat this as an open-source software project.
Again, reviews on lessons are meant to serve our unified goal: committing to elevating the quality and practicality of this curriculum, the program it supports (Ada Developer Academy's core program), and the mission it supports.
In general, most editor comments can fit in one of these categories:
- Proofreading: grammar, spelling, readability, clarity, structure of a paragraph or two
- Accuracy: Is this code correct? Is this definition correct enough?
- Suggestions on lesson structure
Reviewers and curriculum developers should prioritize feedback on proofreading and accuracy.
- Each PR comment should reflect one thought
- Each PR comment should try to be clear about what it observes, why it can improve, and a suggestion for how to improve it if possible