Course Creation at DataCamp: Course Development

Want to learn more? Take the full course at https://learn.datacamp.com/courses/course-creation-at-datacamp at your own pace. More than a video, you'll learn hands-on coding & quickly apply skills to your daily work. --- Hi! My name is Yashas, and I'm the Head of Content Development at DataCamp. Now that you've learned about course design, it's time to learn about the next stage in the course creation process: course development. Once your course is handed off from the Curriculum Team to the Content Development Team, you'll begin working with your CD - short for Content Developer - to develop content. Who is a Content Developer, what does developing content mean, and how can you take your course from handoff to launch? That's what this lesson is going to cover. So let's get started! First, it's important to clarify expectations. The course you create is yours: You own the intellectual property, you are the subject matter expert, and you will be creating all the content for your course. In practice, this translates to creating the slides, scripts, and exercises that'll make up your course, including: debugging code, fixing typos, formatting slides and exercises, and resizing images. In other words, getting your course into a state ready to be taken by DataCamp students: a state we like to call "production-ready". The most frictionless way to arrive at this state is by respecting DataCamp's content guidelines, which you'll learn all about in a later chapter. Once your course content is production-ready, you'll be responsible for creating the audio recordings for the course, just like this one. Now, does this sound intimidating? Well, enter a Content Developer! Throughout the development process, you will work with a member of our Content Development team, whose job it is to guide you through the course development process and help ensure your course is of the highest possible quality. A critical component of this involves reviewing your content throughout deve