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Curriculum

The following is brief attempt at a breakdown of the current curriculum of WDI.

Stages

There are three main stages of the course

stages

Brief Overview of WDI Stages

  • Weeks 1-4
    • programming fundamentals
    • web application development
  • Weeks 6-8
    • resourcefulness
      • review study skills
      • research skills
      • team skills
  • Weeks 10-11
    • independence
    • interview preparation
      • advanced applications
      • project time

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Week By Week Breakdown

Terms

  • SWBAT: stands for "Students Will Be Able To."
  • Common Assessment: a direct assessment used as a standard across instances of WDI running in parallel.
  • CS Core: a technical minimum of problem solving abilities or techniques that should be demonstrated by each student.

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Stage 1: Fundamentals

  • Week 1
    • SWBAT:
      • demonstrate basic command line familiarity
      • perform basic git and GitHub tasks needed for HW, iterated daily
      • explain and manipulate DOM
      • develop basic javascript client applications
      • identify and employ course tools: package managers, etc
      • use CSS
    • Common Assessment:
    • CS Core:
      • merge two sorted arrays
      • palindrome
  • Week 2
    • SWBAT:
      • practice and implement iterator patterns
      • examine and practice TDD
        • Mocha with Chai assertions
      • describe and apply higher order functions
      • prototypes and Klassical Inheritance
      • develop using OOP and object relationships
    • Common Assessment:
    • CS Core:
      • fibonacci
      • merge-sort
      • big O notation
  • Week 3
    • SWBAT:
      • identify an Express application and its components
      • implement a CRUD web application for a resource
      • utilize middleware for an application
        • templating ejs
        • body-parser (body params)
        • method-override
      • describe and implement SQL Selections, Relationships, and JOINS
      • describe and implement DB modeling (ORM) for a single table
    • Common Assessment:
    • CS Core:
      • BinarySearch
  • Week 4:
    • SWBAT:
      • describe and utilize Sequelize and model relationships
        • one-to-one, many-to-one, many-to-many
      • describe and implement Authentication and Authorization
        • intro to bcrypt
      • utilize auth tools: passport
      • utilize Bootstrap
    • Common Assessment:
      • None Working on Project 1
    • CS Core:
      • review
  • Week 5 (little to no lecturing):

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Week 5: Project 1 Assessment

  • SWBAT:
    • implement and adapt CRUD for two resources
    • implement authentication and authorization for users and related data
    • manage simple model associations, database migrations, and validations
    • utilize an external API and request errors
    • utilize best practices for project management
      • wire-framing
      • user stories
      • MVP and Milestone setting
      • task management tools
      • application testing
      • entity relationship diagrams
      • version control with Git and GitHub

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Stage 2: Resourcefulness

  • Week 6:

    • SWBAT:

      • compare and contrast Ruby and Javascript
      • identify and use Ruby control flow and methods
      • implement and describe classes and inheritance
      • possible: Nokogiri Intro
      • compare and contrast RSpec with Mocha-Chai testing
      • intro to Rails MVC application structure
      • use an API
      • implement and use simple models and common ActiveRecord relationships

    • Common Assessment:

    • CS Core:

      • Intro Linked List
      • utilize CSV's and ruby file-io to change data formatting.
      • intro blocks, procs, and lambdas vs. js functions talk

  • Week 7:

    • SWBAT:

      • review and analyze software practices:
        • git strategies: branching vs. rebasing, conflicts etc.
        • application design and specification: user stories, wireframes, etc
        • pair programming exercises and small team assignments
      • implement and use complex ActiveRecord relationships
      • utilize seed data and factories
      • identify and apply RESTful and nested resources in Rails
      • utilize partials for modular views and nested views
      • more application testing with RSPEC or TestUnit
        • controller, integration, feature, and Model specs
      • discuss and apply authentication in a Rails application
      • discuss mailers and password reset

    • Common Assessment:

    • CS Core:

  • Week 8:

    • SWBAT:
      • review and analyze software practices:
        • git strategies: branching vs. rebasing, conflicts etc.
        • application design and specification: user stories, wireframes, etc
        • pair programming exercises and small team assignments
      • use OAuth and apply login
      • implement and discuss a RESTful JSON API in RAILS
        • utilize eager loading
      • utilize jQuery to retrieve and update data on a server
      • utilize templating for dynamically updating content on the client-side
      • implement a persistent Todo application Javascript with jQuery
    • Common Assessment:
      • project 2
    • CS Core:
      • discuss token vs cookie based strategies
      • discuss state in an client-side application

  • Week 9

    • Heroku Deployment
    • Project 2 Group
    • Asset pipeline discussion

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Week 9: Project 2 Assessment

  • SWBAT:
    • research API and application concerns
    • implement and adapt CRUD for three or more resources
    • implement authentication and authorization for users and related data
    • manage multiple model associations, database migrations, and validations
    • utilize an external API, OAuth, and request errors
    • utilize background workers and mailers
    • utilize best practices for project management
      • wire-framing
      • user stories
      • task management tools in a team setting
      • MVP and Milestones
      • broader application testing
      • entity relationship diagrams
      • version control with Git and GitHub with multiple contributors

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Stage 3: Independence

Note: this is tenative. Generally single page applications, CS topics, and system design problems are left for this part of the course.

  • Week 10

    • SWBAT:
      • implement basic data-structures for interview prep:
      • Factory Girl and FFaker (if not covered previously)
      • Controller Specs (if not covered previously)
        • Double, Mocks, and Stubs
      • SideKiq/Redis (if not covered previously)
      • Coffeescript
      • Intro Angular with Rails
        • views
        • controllers
        • modules
        • http
    • Common Assessment:

  • Week 11:

    • SWBAT:
      • discuss and analyze data-structures in review
      • practice mock interviews
      • do more Angular:
        • angular modules
        • Router
        • services
          • services, factories, providers
        • resources
        • custom directives

  • Week 12: * Final Project

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