🦉 Course overview

Objective

The objective of this course is to train people with no prior software development experience to get a good job in technology.

Primarily this is achieved by teaching programming concepts using JavaScript (both client-side and server-side).

A pre-requisite of this course is having completed Code Your Future’s Intro to Digital course which teaches the basics of HTML and CSS.

Modules

🗺️ How this works

⏱️ Building a community of self educators

  1. Active learning
  2. Flipped classroom
  3. No lectures
  4. Dialogue
  5. Importance of prep
  6. Workshops
  7. Next steps: Backlog and Success

⏱️ Building a community of self coordinators

  1. Rhythm of the week
  2. Calendar
  3. Day plan
  4. Morning orientation
  5. Study groups
  6. Backlog
  7. Tasks and Ratios: Capacity Planning

⏱️ Building a community of self evaluators

  1. Have we met our goals?
  2. Code review
  3. Codewars

🔌 Servers

⏱️ Node and Express

  1. Introduction to Express
  2. Make a Node Project
  3. Building the server
  4. Communicating with the server
  5. Routing
  6. Query Parameters

⏱️ GET and POST

  1. CRUD
  2. 🐕 GET
  3. 🐕 GET single movie
  4. 📨 POST

⏱️ PUT, and Testing APIs

  1. CRUD Again
  2. 📨 PUT
  3. 💪🏾 CRUD Challenges
  4. 📮 🧪 Test Examples in Postman

⏱️ Build Wordle

  1. Play Wordle

💾 Databases

⏱️ Introduction to databases

  1. Introduction to databases
  2. Introduction to PostgreSQL
  3. Communicating with the database using SQL

⏱️ SELECTing data

  1. Using Aggregate Functions
  2. Inserting, Updating and Deleting Rows
  3. Joining Tables
  4. Creating a table
  5. Defining Primary and Foreign Keys
  6. Integration with NodeJS