What and How I Taught at My IT Courses
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Filtering out the Students 🔗
In every school I studied I saw that it’s a pleasure for a teacher to teach someone who is eager to learn. Luckily my course was an act of volunteering, so I could filter out the students in order to avoid lazy ones.
There were more than 5 people who wanted to study at my course, and most did not complete the first task: read “Testing Dot Com” book and note important terms.
That was actually a test of how serious they were about studying. Most never completed first task –» filtering worked :)
Study Approach 🔗
- Questions session regarding last lection and homework (10-30 minutes).
- Lection (1-4 hours).
- Homework - list of articles, books, podcasts related to current lection (5-25 hours).
Topics Covered in Course 🔗
List of skills I took mostly from my research.
| Topic/Skill | Lecture time (hours) |
|---|---|
| Client-server architecture | 2 |
| Development methodologies | 1 |
| HTML | 1 |
| CSS | 1 |
| Cache, cookie, local storage | 1 |
| DNS, URL, domain | 1 |
| HTTP(S) | 2 |
| JSON, XML | 1 |
| Chrome dev tools | 4 |
| Postman | 1 |
| OSI model | 1 |
| Test design techniques | 2 |
| Test documentation | 1 |
| Issue management systems | 1 |
| Test management systems | 1 |
| Databases | 4 |
| SQL | 4 |
Timing 🔗
TOTAL: ~300 hours to complete whole course and get ready for first interview:
- Lectures: ~30 hours.
- Homework: ~250 hours.
- Q&A sessions: ~20 hours.
Helping Find a Job 🔗
Tips and advices on how to find the first job you can find: here.