Overview
Becoming a well-rounded developer is much more than learning language syntax.
In this intensive course, you will study the common core of software development, including MVC architecture, object-oriented and functional programming, and computer science fundamentals such as basic data structures and algorithms. Come learn how to create and launch web apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with the help of third-party APIs and libraries from around the web.
This course includes a career coaching curriculum to get you ready for your job search. The course totals 160 hours, including lectures, lab, coworking, and collaborative projects.
Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Collaboratively design and create web applications from scratch using MVC architecture built with professional-grade HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Work with string, array, and object data structures and algorithms to solve code challenges with pure JavaScript programming.
- Design dynamic frontend and backend applications that can function together or independently and are deployed to cloud platforms.
- Explain the fundamentals of how the World Wide Web works, over the internet.
- Utilize dependency management techniques to build with third-party libraries such as ExpressJS, jQuery, EJS, and Handlebars.
- Persist one-to-many relational data across multiple tables in a SQL database, sourced from third-party API or user-generated content.
- Follow agile software development practices during week-long sprints, including pair-programming, stand-ups, daily retrospectives, project management with Kanban boards, regular refactoring, and working in a shared codebase.
- Enroll in a Code 401 course or attain an entry-level website development job or internship by completing the course requirements.
Prerequisites
- Code 201
- Students with previous experience can test out of this requirement in their application. If you’d like to test straight into Code 301, please make sure you have experience with all of the topics listed on the Code 201 course page.
Prework
Once you are accepted into the course, please complete the Code 301 Prework.
Topics
Concepts
- MVC Architecture
- Responsive Design
- Web Request/ Response Cycle
- SQL
- Client-Side Templates
- Server-Side Routing and Rendering
- Services and RESTful APIs
- Functional Programming
- Relational Data
- AJAX and Asynchronous Programming
- JSON and 3rd-party APIs
- Express.JS and Middleware
- Heroku and Deployment
- Daily Practice in Data Structures
- Strings
- Arrays
- Objects
- Functional Programming
Languages
- Advanced HTML Templating
- Intermediate CSS
- Intermediate JavaScript
- jQuery Events and DOM Manipulation
Environments and Tools
- Unix and the Command Prompt
- Git and Github
- A Text Editor
- Chrome Dev Tools
- HTTP with Postman
- SQL with PostgreSQL
- Trello Project Management