Founders & Coders programme offers 16-week full-stack JavaScript course for 16 students. It is peer-led and project-based working in 4 teams. To apply to the programme, I needed to complete course prerequisites first. Afterwards, I invited to interview and offered places. The course for cohort 15 started on 29 October and will end 22 February 2019.
✔️ My first Portfolio builted as part of application
✔️ Calculate builted as part of pre-course
Each week introduces a new topic
| WEEK | ACTIVITIY | WEEK | ACTIVITY |
|---|---|---|---|
| week 1 | Toolkit | week 6 | PostgreSQL |
| week 2 | Testing | week 7 | Authentication |
| week 3 | APIs | week 8 | Express |
| week 4 | Node.js 1/2 | weeks 10-12 | self-selected project |
| week 5 | Node.js 2/2 | weeks 13 | React |
Every day has a mixed of learning coding and soft-skills.
| DAY | ACTIVITY |
|---|---|
| Monday | Workshops, Client workshops |
| Tuesday | Workshops, Research |
| Wednesday | Workshops, Team project, Guest speaker |
| Thursday | Team project |
| Friday | Code review, Team project presentations, Stop-Go-Continue (SGC), Guest speaker |
Other cool things we also did throughout the entire course..:blush:
- All programming (workshops, projects and code review) done as pair programming
- Have weekly SGC meetings discussing improvements to the course for the next cohort
- Run weekly workshops with clients in the tech for good sector
- Host meetups for other prospective students who want to apply to future cohorts and a 'Coding for Women' meetup open to the general public
- Mentor the next cohort for one week
The second half of the course is focused on two 3-week projects addressing a specific real-world problem, building a product over two sprints, and using Design Thinking and Agile techniques to build a 3 week prototype.
1. Student project : Snowflakes
- Created an application to provide a starting point for young people looking to get involved with climate change activism. Click here to read more about my student project.
- Tech Stack : Node | Express | Handlebars | PostgreSQL | Jest | CSS | SASS
- Created a tech product to ensure verification between charitable organisations and suppliers of food waste, allowing quicker and more secure access to surplus food. Click here to read more about my client project.
- Tech Stack : React | Node | Express | Handlebars | PostgreSQL | Jest | CSS | SASS | JWT Authentication
💎 What We Learn
- ES6 classes, destructuring and this, React API, JSX, Functional & class-based components, Component state, Lifecycle methodsTesting React components, bundlers(Parcel)
💡 Team Project : Game - pop your face
- A GitHub repo ready for code review
💎 What We Learn
- Express middleware, Understand the purpose of templating, Use templating with Handlebars, Testing of Express.js routes, Integrate a PostgreSQL database with an Express app, Deploy an Express app to Heroku
💡 Team Project : Shopping list
- A website built with Express.js and Handlebars.js
- Add/view to a history of user's shopping list (product, quantity, an estimate of price)
- 3 main sections - Welcome User page / Shopping List form page / Current shopping list page
- A GitHub repo ready for code review
💎 What We Learn
- Password management(hashing/bcryptjs), Cookie management(setting them/deleting them), Session management (signing cookies/JWTs), Secure routing, Promises
💡 Team Project : A guidebook to Finsbury park ➕ USER ACCOUNTS
- Signup form validation on the client side (unmatching passwords, patterns)
- Test for server side and database seperately
- Check for cookie to see if user is logged in, and direct to the proper page
- A GitHub repo ready for code review
💎 What We Learn
- PostgreSQL, Database - retrieving and storing information in a postgres database, Test database
💡 Team Project : Build a guidebook to Finsbury park
- Team Project: A website storing data on a Heroku-hosted database
- A GitHub repo ready for code review
💎 What We Learn
- API calls from the back-end using the Request module, Test the routes of your server using Supertest, Continuous integration with Travis, Read and Write Streams in Node, Buffers in Node, How to deploy projects on Heroku
💡 Team Project : CoTech Hackathon - Build a component for the CoTech website
- Team Project : API calls from the back-end and testing the server using Supertest :no_good: Unfortunatley, it was an temporary API for just Hackathon, so that its no longer bring any data.
- A GitHub repo ready for code review
💎 What We Learn
- Learn how to use Node.js, Node server basics, Module design pattern and server file structure, Back-end testing, Basic ES6 syntax, heroku
💡 Team Project : Autocomplete website/widget
- Team Project : Find your favortie beers! 🍺
- A GitHub repo ready for code review
💎 What We Learn
- Flexbox, API, XMLHttp requests, XHR, JSON, Software Architecture
💡 Team Project : A simple web app includes two APIs and use the results to update the DOM
- Team Project : Using movie, recipe and Giphy API 🎥 🍔
- A GitHub repo ready for code review
💎 What We Learn
- The Test-driven Development(TDD), Unit & Integration tests, Recatoring, Tape, Callback function, Array methods, IIFE, DOM manipulation
🌱 Personal Stretch Goal
- Be familiar with Array method
💡 Team Project : Unit testing and TDD for client-side code
- Team Project : To do list app(learning TDD rather than building an app) ☑️
- A GitHub repo ready for code review
💎 What We Learn
- Semantic HTML, Accessibility,CSS - BEM, Mobile-First, Responsive Web Design, Gitflow and use of github, Pair programming, Command Line, Regular Expressions
🌱 Personal Stretch Goal
- CSS - Make a navbar
- CSS - Learn how to use grid
- JS - Make a validator to check the valid form
💡 Team Project : Be familiar with Git & Github 
- Team Project : Make a one page responsive website
- A GitHub repo ready for code review
