The Co-Curricular Learning for the Innovator in You.
The Roots Program is a series of workshops and lectures on technology
topics, open to anyone in the Duke Community. Through these events and
online platforms, students, faculty or staff of any skill and confidence
level can comfortably start to gain an understanding of how to make use
of a variety of tools and technologies. The goal here is not to make
you an expert — we know that takes time — but to help you get to the
point where you’re excited and confident about starting your own project
or continuing your education. We offer workshops in topics like web
design, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, research computing, 3D modeling
and fabrication, and many more.
If you’ve got an idea for a topic we’re not covering, or if you’re an
expert in a topic you’d like to teach, let us know.
All classes are free — just enroll below.
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Branding: Build a Brand
Sandra Bermond
Choose a business idea, and establish the direction of the brand by figuring out its attributes and values before choosing fonts, colors, shapes and graphics matching those values, to create a spot on looking brand guide.
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Branding: The Psychology of Brands
Sandra Bermond
Take this class is to understand the psychology behind the brands you encounter everyday and how their values are manifested through their choices in typography, colors, shapes, graphics and overall style.
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Create a Website: Structure
Sandra Bermond
In this class, we will use HTML to construct the frame of a website. We will work on a very simple portfolio website. This class is primarily aimed at beginners. This course is the first of a series of four which will teach you how to make a basic responsive website and host it on the internet.
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Create a Website: Styling
Sandra Bermond
In this second class in our Create a Website series, we are introducing a new language: CSS. We will continue working on our simple portfolio site as we add simple styling rules to our text, including color, font sizes and families, and more.
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Illustrator for Laser Cutting
Sandra Bermond
Come to this class to learn basic use of Illustrator in regards to laser cutting while making a fun and easy project you will be able to take home with you.
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Intro to Shiny
Tom Balmat
The first course in the Shiny Series, this class covers the foundations of running the Shiny server and getting to know the basic layout of a Shiny project. This course requires knowledge of the R programming language.
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Shiny: Data Tables with Triggered Plots
Tom Balmat
Learn how to use the Javascript DataTables library with Shiny. This course requires knowledge of the R programming language.
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Shiny: Dive Into GGplot
Tom Balmat
This course will explore the usage of the ggplot 2 data visualization package within the Shiny framework. This course requires knowledge of the R programming language.
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Shiny: Plotly
Tom Balmat
Learn how to utilize the Plotly's R graphing library to makes interactive, publication-quality graphs. This course requires knowledge of the R programming language.
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Shiny Server
Tom Balmat
Learn how to implement the Shiny Server to take your work in the shiny framework to a production environment. This course requires knowledge of the R programming language.
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Web Design: Concepts
Sandra Bermond
This course will dive into the concepts behind the design that go into the creation of websites so that we may understand what makes us like or dislike a site, and how to create an efficient and meaningful design.
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Web Design: Workshop
Sandra Bermond
Come to this class to practice what you have learned about the concepts of web design and create a wireframe before diving into Adobe Xd and prototyping your concept.
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