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Week 1 (Jan 26-30)

By the end of this week, students should be comfortable with:

  • HTML
  • CSS and layout
  • Basic Git/Github workflows
  • Pixel-perfect layout work
  • Finding quality documentation and resources
  • Finishing large PSD-to-markup projects

Week 2 (Feb 2-6)

By the end of this week, students should be comfortable with:

  • Basic JavaScript types and control flow
  • JavaScript iteration
  • JavaScript functional programming
  • JavaScript testing and Test-Driven Development basics
  • JavaScript functional programming
  • Completing basic JavaScript interview-esque katas

Week 3 (Feb 9-13)

By the end of this week, students should be comfortable with:

  • DOM traversal, with and without jQuery
  • Responsive web design
  • Sass and SCSS
  • Yeoman
  • Gulp and build/precompilation processes
  • jQuery utilities and chaining
  • Asynchronous JavaScript
  • Making a small web application in-browser

Week 4 (Feb 17-20)

By the end of this week, students should be comfortable with:

  • Underscore chaining and native FP fallbacks
  • Using functional programming to traverse large datasets
  • HTTP methods and URLs
  • AJAX (via jQuery)
  • Understanding and using third-party APIs
  • Creating dynamic single-page applications

Week 5 (Feb 23-27)

By the end of this week, students should be comfortable with:

  • Basic usage of node.js and Express
  • Deploying simple applications to public servers
  • GitHub and "git flow" for teams
  • Object-oriented JavaScript
  • JavaScript scoping and binding
  • Prototypical inheritance
  • Writing and debugging complex JavaScript code

Week 6 (Mar 2-6)

By the end of this week, students should be comfortable with:

  • Underscore templating
  • JavaScript events
  • Backbone models
  • Backbone views and data binding
  • Building a JavaScript "todo"-like application

Week 7 (Mar 9-13)

By the end of this week, students should be comfortable with:

  • Backbone collections
  • Backbone routers
  • MongoDB (and relational vs. non-relational databases)
  • Using MongoDB with node/Express
  • Using a data store to persist application information

Week 8 (Mar 16-20)

By the end of this week, students should be comfortable with:

  • All elements of Backbone
  • Cookies, localStorage, and user authentication
  • Basic angular templating, data binding, directives, and filters
  • Starting work on a social network application

Week 9 (Mar 23-27)

By the end of this week, students should be comfortable with:

  • Understanding and creating Angular modules
  • Angular factories, services, and controllers
  • Custom Angular directives and filters
  • All elements of the MEAN "stack"
  • Finishing work on a social network application

Weeks 10-12

The last three weeks are for final projects. Each student will design, build and deploy a major project of their own, using as much tech from the previous nine weeks as possible. Lecture is light and mostly Q&A based on problems students encounter. The rest of the time is spent working on final projects and prepping demos.