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. Backlog
  7. Workshops
  8. Rhythm of the week
  9. Next steps: Backlog and Success

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