🦉 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
  8. 📅 Classplanner

⏱️ 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