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Now that you basically know what Tilde is, it’s time to learn a bit more about how different kinds of cards really work.
There are 3 main kinds of cards. The different kinds of cards are associated with different kinds of activities, or different kinds of work that you need to do.
A topic is something self-study. Basically all you need to do is make sure that you understand the content. If it links to a tutorial, do the tutorial. If it links to an article or blog post, read it. Pretty straight-forward.
The general procedure for you is:
Once you say you are finished with a topic then the card will move into either the “Review” or “Complete” column.
Most topics will move straight to Complete, and others will need some kind of verification. For example if a topic instructs you to go and do some external course, eg FreeCodeCamp, then when you say you are finished a staff member will double check. They might ask you to prove that you worked through the course, they might give you a test to complete, they might just have a chat with you.
Workshops are live events that are a part of your curriculum. There aren’t a lot of these. You can’t move these cards yourself. The staff member running the workshop will move the card when they mark attendance.
There aren’t a lot of workshop cards. We are super keen on letting your learning journey be as self-paced and self-directed as possible so we are slowly converting all the Workshops into Topics. So if you don’t see any on your board, DON’T PANIC!
This is where the magic happens.
Projects are deliverables. We need to see you demonstrate your skillz. By submitting projects (and reviewing other people’s work) you will move through the course and prove your competence.
Projects come in two different forms: Link projects and Repo projects. These behave a little bit differently to each other. We’ll go into detail and demonstrate those differences by actually doing a few projects and moving them to Complete.
Please take note that there is a “details” button on project cards that have some progress. Basically, as projects move forward through the board, they can be associated with all sorts of extra info. You will be able to view that information by clicking on “Details”.
If there are no details to be displayed, there wont be a details button. The button will be displayed when it becomes useful.
Each card on your board represents a bit of work you need to do. Generally the order of the cards in your backlog goes from least advanced to most advanced, and you should try to do your work in roughly the order that the cards appear.
However, it’s your journey so we want you to have as much freedom as possible in choosing what to do next. So if you want to start with the 5th card because it looks exciting, we are cool with that.
We do have some restrictions in place:
You’ll also see that some cards are highlighted and say the word goal on them. These cards are very important and often have all sorts of interesting prerequisites. If you are just starting with us and you are taking part in a short bootcamp then you need to make sure you get through all your goals.