Beginning ReactJS (sold out!)

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React is a powerful JavaScript library ideal for building interactive, data-driven user interfaces, and it’s used by some of the most successful brands in the world, including Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb, and more.

The goal of this training is to provide you with the foundation of React JS including React fundamentals, componentization, life cycle, and general concepts. Through this, you'll be able to get over the "hump" and continue your journey on learning React

Getting Real About Agile

Reality always wins! Will your next project be on its team? Come learn how to get complex work done faster while being on this winning team. When the only constant is change, you need methods that anticipate uncertainty and allow for adaptation to stay the course to success.

As an attendee, you will learn how understanding Agile methods can increase the speed and effectiveness of yourself and your team, getting to done faster in ways that matter. Through a workshop mixed with presentations, exercises and discussions we’ll cover:

• What is Agility?
• An introduction and overview of various Agile methods
• Scrum Roles and Values
• Plans and Planning
• Iteration and Flow (Scrum and Kanban)
• Inspecting, Adapting, and Releasing Work
• Troubleshooting Challenges in the methods
• How is Drupal Agile?
• Attendees, of any expertise, will leave with an understanding of the terminology and tools involved in getting the right work done faster under agile methodologies.

Intro to Backdrop CMS

Backdrop CMS is for the small to medium sized business, non-profits, educational institutions, and companies or organizations who are delivering comprehensive websites on a budget. This introductory training will cover the basics of creating and administering a website with Backdrop CMS.

Training Itinerary:

In the morning we'll do a meet-and-greet to get to know one another. Then we'll have a brief presentation on the philosophy of Backdrop CMS, followed by questions and answers.

For the rest of the day we'll build our own Portfolio website on Backdrop CMS, and in the process explore some of the similarities and differences from doing so with Drupal.

Hands-On Site Building:

• Exploring Pages & Posts: Content types & fields are almost the same in Backdrop CMS as they were in Drupal 7. As soon as you master some slight terminology changes you'll be cooking with gas!
• Creating and modifying Layouts: Backdrop CMS has a new top-level concept (like modules and themes): Layouts. Separating page layout from the look & feel of your site means lots of good things for your site-building experience. Let's play!
• Building lists of your content with Views: Views was the #1 downloaded contributed module for Drupal 7. It's been moved into core for Backdrop CMS just like in Drupal 8.  Let's take it for a quick test drive so you can see that other than it's facelift, not much has changed.
• Extending your site with a Module: Modules for backdrop are very similar to modules for Drupal 7, but in Backdrop the can be installed quickly without needing to leave your own website. Let's use the project browser to install your favorite module.
• Deploying changes using Configuration Management: One of the time-saving features Backdrop includes is the ability to package and deploy configuration from one site to another. Let's practice deploying to a Pantheon site to see how quick and easy it can be.