Student Knowledge Base

• Setting up your computer
• Student Guidelines
• Master list of links from class
• Daily schedule and groups

Week 1

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

• Setting up your computer for development
• Using Git and GitHub to manage source code
• HTML
• CSS
• Basics of design
• Basics of accessibility

Week 2

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

• Programming with Python
• Data types
• Conditionals and loops
• Lists and dictionaries
• Functions
• Input and output
• Modules

Week 3

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

• Using pip and third-party packages
• Web scraping with Python
• Testing code
• Object-oriented programming with Python
• Program design
• Reading and parsing data

Week 4

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

• Creating a new web application with Django
• Using pip and third-party packages
• Function-based views
• Django templates
• Intro to models

Week 5

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

• Forms
• Model associations
• PostgreSQL
• Deployment on Heroku
• Bulk data loading

Week 6

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

• Authentication
• Advanced forms
• Class-based views
• File uploads
• Sending emails

Week 7

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

• Basic JavaScript
• Manipulating the DOM
• Making and responding to Ajax requests
• The concept of progressive enhancement

Week 8

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

• Making web applications that use JavaScript for interactivity
• Making Django views to accept and respond with JSON
• Using npm on the command line
• Using ES6 imports