- Pre-Reading:
- Git - The Simple Guide
- Atlassian Git Tutorial
- Make sure you Install Git
- Lesson Video:
- Github 1 Hour 11 Minutes
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand and be able to use the command line for
- creating a folder
- creating a file
- editing a file
- changing directories
- Students will understand what Git and Github are and how they fit into the web app landscape
- Students will be able to clone a repo and know its purpose
- Students will be able to add, commit, and push files to github
- Students will understand basic branching
- Students will understand how to use github in a group setting
- Students be able to understand what a "Fork" is and be able to Fork a repo
- Students will be able to handle merge conflicts
- Students will be able to minimally manage vim to escape merge conflict messages
- Students will know how to make a Pull Request
- Students will understand and be able to use the command line for
- Project:
- Additional Practice:
- Additional Reading:
- Assessment
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- HTML Basics 2 Hours 7 Minutes
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand the purpose of HTML
- Students will understand the purpose of CSS
- Students will from scratch, be able to create a skeleton for their html and css page
- understand and be able to use the following HTML Elements
- p
- footer
- header
- h1 - h6
- ul
- li
- div
- Understand and be able to use the following CSS properties
- id (#) vs class(.) and specificity
- width px & %
- height px & %
- background-color
- background-image
- color
- font-size
- text-align: center
- line-height
- box-model (margin, padding, border)
- float
- clear
- Project:
- Additional Reading:
- Assessment
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- HTML/CSS Positioning 1 Hour 45 Minutes
- Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to use Chrome Dev Tools to inspect their HTML/CSS
- Students will understand the purpose of CSS
- Students will be able to compare and contrast fixed, relative, absolute, and static positioning in CSS
- Students will be able to compare and contrast display block, inline-block, inline, and none
- Students will be able to compare and contrast overflow hidden, auto, scroll
- Students will understand and be able to use max/min-width and max/min-height
- Projects:
- Additional Reading
- Assessment
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- Advanced HTML & CSS w/Ben Callis 1 Hour 25 Minutes
- Optional Advanced HTML & CSS lecture w/Jason Turner 1 Hour 52 Minutes
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand and be able to explain the box model to someone else
- Students will understand media queries and be able to implement them
- Students will understand when and when not to use floating elements
- Project:
- Wikimedia Clone - Clone the homepage for this website
- Additional Reading:
- Assessment
- Before class:
- No video. Work on previous projects or re-watch lessons on Vimeo, or follow an online tutorial about HTML and CSS. Just make sure you do something! Keep up the momentum!!!
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand and be able to explain the box model to someone else
- Students will understand media queries and be able to implement them
- Students will understand when and when not to use floating elements
- Project:
- Wideopen Tech Clone - Clone the homepage for this website
- Additional Reading:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- [Intro to Javascript Fundamentals w/ Jeremy Robertson] (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFq09yYVYpcLeYBOJfjmffzRNxyc0JGrR) 1 hours 53 minutes
- Archive Video - Javascript Fundamentals w/ Jacob Turner (OPTIONAL) 2 Hours 4 Minutes
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand how the web works:
- front-end vs back-end
- the web app landscape
- Students will understand JavaScript vs jQuery
- Students will understand what the DOM is
- Students will understand conditional statements and how they’re used
- Students will understand functions:
- invocation vs definition
- parameters vs arguments
- global and local scope
- anonymous functions
- return values and how to save the returned value to another variable
- Students will understand how the web works:
- Practice:
- Level 1 : https://codecard.io/a/sequence/BYTuMSKsX
- Level 2 : https://codecard.io/a/sequence/B4D9MGm5X
- Level 3 : https://codecard.io/a/sequence/dEvmVkM5f
- Projects:
- JavaScript Basics
- Only do Fns-and-scopes.js
- JavaScript Basics
- Additional Reading:
- Assessments
- JS Fundamentals I
- Skip the last 2 questions
- JS Fundamentals I
- Black Diamond (Bonus push yourself material)
- Advanced JS Problems - These problems push farther into javascript than what we've taught so far, but they're great to come back to to gauge your progress.
- Pre-Reading:
- Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to define what a closure is
- Students will be able to identify when a closure is being used
- Practice
- Projects:
- Assessments
- JS Fundamentals I
- All questions
- JS Fundamentals I
- Black Diamond (Bonus push yourself material)
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- Javascript Fundamentals II & III w/ Jeremy Robertson] (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFq09yYVYpcIHr6k0SxZfoU7cQttkkw52) - 1 hr 53 minutes
- Javascript Fundamentals II & III w/ Jeremy Robertson (Unedited) - This video covers content for two classes. 2 hours 22 minutes.
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand Arrays:
- purpose
- how to get values from arrays
- array properties (length, push/pop, shift/unshift, split/join, splice/slice, reverse, indexOf)
- how to create an array
- how to loop through an array
- Students will understand Arrays:
- Project:
- Additional Reading:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- Javascript Fundamentals II & III - Same video as yesterday. 2 hours 22 minutes.
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand how Objects differ from Arrays
- Students will understand use cases for objects
- Students will understand how to create and add properties/values to objects
- Students will understand how to loop through objects
- Students will understand how to create and invoke a method
- Students will understand bracket notation vs dot notation
- Students will understand how to remove keys/props from objects (delete)
- Projects:
- Additional Reading:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- JS Callbacks & Prototypes 1 Hour 11 Minutes
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand synchronous vs asynchronous programming
- Students will be able to talk about what a callback is
- Students will understand the use cases of callbacks
- Students will be able to identify and use callbacks
- Projects:
- Additional Reading:
- Assessment
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- JS - The "this" keyword 1 Hour 49 Minutes
- Learning Objectives
- the purpose of the ‘this’ keyword
- 4 rules for determining what ‘this’ is bound to
- Implicit Binding
- Explicit Binding
- call
- apply
- bind
- new binding
- Default Binding
- 4 rules for determining what ‘this’ is bound to
- Students will understand what prototypes are in JavaScript
- Students will be able to add a method on a function’s prototype and create instances of that function that invoke the prototypes method
- the purpose of the ‘this’ keyword
- Projects:
- Additional Reading:
- Assessment
- Pre-Reading:
- Project:
- Pre-Reading:
- Find a video or an article that explains what the DOM is
- JS is Sexy - Prototypes
- Lesson Video:
- Mini Project:
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand the DOM
- Students will be able to make basic manipulations to the DOM
- Students will understand visual and functional purpose of the jQuery
- Project:
- Additional Reading:
- Assessment
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- No video for this lesson. Review yesterday's project, then start today's project.
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand the DOM
- Students will be able to make basic manipulations to the DOM
- Students will understand visual and functional purpose of the jQuery
- Project:
- Lesson Video
- No video for today. Continue working on the Twitter Clone project.
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand the DOM
- Students will be able to make basic manipulations to the DOM
- Project:
- Additional Reading:
- Assessment:
-
Pre-Reading:
-
Lesson Video:
-
Mini Project:
-
Learning Objectives
- Students will understand the difference between jQuery and Angular and how Angular fits into the web app landscape
- Students will understand what a module, controller, directive, and service is in angular
- Students will be able to, from scratch, build a basic angular application, put data on a controller's scope, and bind that data to the view
- Students will be able to ng-repeat over data
- Students will be able to filter data
-
Project:
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Assessment:
-
Weeklong Challenge:
-
Pre-Reading:
-
Lesson Video:
-
Mini Project:
-
Learning Objectives
- Students will understand the purpose of Services in Angular
- Students will know how to inject services into their controllers
- Students will know how to call methods on their services from in their controllers and put the response on $scope
- know the difference between factories and services
-
Additional Reading:
-
Assessment
-
Project:
-
Weeklong Challenge:
- Lesson Video:
- No video today. Continue working on the Angular project, mini-projects, or the weeklong challenge.
- Weeklong Challenge:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- Mini Project:
- Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to explain what JSON is
- Students will be able to explain what REST is
- Students will be able to explain what AJAX is
- Students will make an ajax request with angular, call .then on the promise and add that data to the $scope
- Project:
- Assessment
- Weeklong Challenge:
- Class Survey:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- Mini Project:
- Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to make $http requests to various APIs
- Students will be able to use outside directives and know how to inject those modules into their application
- Students will be able to create, return, and resolve their own promises with $q
- Project:
- Additional Reading:
- Assessment
- Weeklong Challenge:
- Class Survey:
In-class practice project : Angular Drills
- Class Survey:
-
Pre-Reading:
-
Lesson Video:
- Routing - 1 hour 7 minutes
-
Install these before class!:
-
Mini Project:
-
Learning Objectives
- Students will understand the methodology behind routing and templating
- Students will be able to set up a basic routing system with multiple views and controllers using UI-Router
- Students will be able to use resolve to resolve data and pass in data to their controller before theirn controller initializes
- Students will be able to use stateParams to gather data from the URL
-
Project:
-
Assessment:
-
Weeklong Challenge:
- Quiz App Repo (Use this to reference the Github repo)
- Quiz App Project Guide - Day 1 (Use this to start and build the project)
-
Class Survey:
-
Pre-Reading:
-
Lesson Video:
- No video for today's class
-
Install these before class!:
-
Mini Project:
-
Learning Objectives
- Students will understand the methodology behind routing and templating
- Students will be able to set up a basic routing system with multiple views and controllers using UI-Router
- Students will be able to use resolve to resolve data and pass in data to their controller before theirn controller initializes
- Students will be able to use stateParams to gather data from the URL
-
Project:
- DevMtn Travels Continue working on the travels project or work on the weeklong challenge
-
Assessment
-
Weeklong Challenge:
- Quiz App (Use this to reference the Github repo)
- Quiz App Project Guide - Day 1 (Use this to start and build the project)
-
Class Survey:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- Directives - 1 hour 41 minutes
- Mini Project:
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand how Directives fit into the Angular ecosystem
- Students will be able to create a custom directive and use it in a view
- Additional Reading:
- Assessment
- Weeklong Project:
- Quiz App (Use this to reference the Github repo)
- Quiz App Project Guide - Day 2 (Use this to start and build the project)
- Class Survey:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- No video for today's lesson
- Mini Project:
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand how Directives fit into the Angular ecosystem
- Students will be able to create a custom directive and use it in a view
- Project:
- Quiz App (Use this to reference the Github repo)
- Quiz App Project Guide - Day 2 (Use this to start and build the project)
- Additional Reading:
- Assessment
- Class Survey:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- Firebase - 1 hour 42 minutes
- Learning Objectives
- Students will understand the term CRUD
- Students will be able to use Firebase in angular to persist data to a server
- Mini-Project : CarFire
- Project:
- Quiz App (Use this to reference the Github repo)
- Quiz App Project Guide - Day 3 (Use this to start and build the project)
- Additional Reading:
- Class Survey:
- Review & Finish Quiz App
- Project:
- Quiz App (Use this to reference the Github repo)
- Quiz App Project Guide - Day 3 and BD's (Use this to start and build the project)
- Class Survey:
- Lesson Video:
- NodeJS I - 2 hours 42 minutes
- Mini Project:
- Learning Objectives
- Students understand what Node is and that it can be used as a server
- Student will understand how HTTP works to communicate between client & server
- Student will understand the need for a module like
express - Student can use
requireto import a Node module - Student will understand the basic utility of a package.json file
- Student can create a HTTP NodeJS server using express
- Students can explain endpoints and create basic ones testing them with Postman
- Project:
- Trello App (Use this to reference the Github repo)
- Trello App Project Guide - Day 1 (Use this to start and build the project)
- Additional Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- NodeJS II - 1 hour 55 minutes
- Mini Project:
- Rewrite in Progress
- Learning Objectives
- Student can require other .js files in the project
- Student can use bodyParser to get data out of the body
- Student can use req.params
- Student is introduced to req.query
- Student understands the request response lifecycle in express including the order in which functions are called
- Student can utilize middleware
- Project:
- Trello App (Use this to reference the Github repo)
- Trello App Project Guide - Day 2 (Use this to start and build the project)
- Additional Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- Node III - 2 hours 10 minutes
- Mini Project:
- Rewrite in Progress
- Learning Objectives
- Student can use Express to serve static files
- Student can use routing in Express to create basic API endpoints
- Student can use route params to make dynamic endpoints
- Student can build a front-end Angular application that connects to a back-end NodeJS API
- Project:
- Trello App (Use this to reference the Github repo)
- Trello App Project Guide - Day 3 (Use this to start and build the project)
- Additional Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- Mongo I - 1 hour 41 minutes
- Before class:
- Mini Project:
- Learning Objectives
- Understand the DB's place in the web app landscape (MongoDB vs DBaaS like Firebase)
- Understand DBs, Collections, and Documents
- Understand CRUD operations with MongoDB
- Project:
- Trello App (Use this to reference the Github repo)
- Trello App Project Guide - Day 4 (Use this to start and build the project)
- Additional Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- Mongo II - 1 hour 20 minutes
- Mini Project:
- Learning Objectives
- understand what object modeling is and why it’s used
- understand the difference between Mongoose and MongoJS
- Project:
- Trello App (Use this to reference the Github repo)
- Trello App Project Guide - Day 5 (Use this to start and build the project)
- Additional Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- Mongo III - 1 hour 40 minutes
- Mini Project:
- Mini-Birds Related
- Learning Objectives
- Understand the concept of relationships
- Understand the different types of relationships, and when to use them
- Understand how and when to use embedded and referential schemas
- Project:
- Trello App (Use this to reference the Github repo)
- Trello App Project Guide - Day 6 (Use this to start and build the project)
- Additional Reading:
- Lesson Video:
- NodeJS Auth - Passport - 1 hour 13 minutes
- Mini Project:
- Learning Objectives
- Student can distinguish between Basic Auth, Form-based Auth, Token-based Auth, and OAuth
- Student can use express sessions to restrict access to resources
- Student can use passport to authenticate users with providers like Twitter, Facebook, etc.
- Project:
- Additional Reading:
- Project:
- Project:
- Project:
- Project:
- Project:
- Project:
- Project:
- Project:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video: No video for this lesson.
- Learning Objectives
- Understand how React compares to other Front End frameworks like Angular and Ember
- Understand how to use Webpack to set up a build process for your React App
- Understand how to build a component which modifies and maintains it’s own state
- Understand how to pass data into child components as props
- Understand how to use CSS with React as well as “inline” styles CSS in React
- Understand how to keep your components state up to date as well as invoke other methods in your component.
- Project:
- Additional Reading:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video: No Video for Today
- Learning Objectives
- Understand the Life Cycle of a Components
- Understand how to use propTypes and getDefaultProps
- Understand what Mixins are and how they’re useful
- How to use React w/ jQuery and specifically to make Ajax requests
- Project:
- Additional Reading:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video: No video for this lesson.
- Learning Objectives
- Understand the Life Cycle of a Components
- Understand how to use propTypes and getDefaultProps
- Understand what Mixins are and how they’re useful
- How to use React w/ jQuery and specifically to make Ajax requests
- Project:
- Additional Reading:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video: No Video for Today
- Learning Objectives
- Understand the Life Cycle of a Components
- Understand how to use propTypes and getDefaultProps
- Understand what Mixins are and how they’re useful
- How to use React w/ jQuery and specifically to make Ajax requests
- Project:
- Additional Reading:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video: No video for this lesson.
- Learning Objectives
- Understand the purpose and benefits of Redux
- Understand how to architect a Redux app with the following
- actions
- components
- containers
- reducers
- Project:
- Additional Reading:
- Pre-Reading:
- Lesson Video: No Video for Today
- Project:
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