HTML & CSS

Students master the basic building blocks of how the web is rendered and become fluent in the language that makes the web beautiful. They additionally learn how to conceive of and build UIs for web apps by writing well-structured HTML and CSS, as well as using SASS to create efficient and organized front-ends.

Git

Students begin exploring version control using git commands including cloning, branching, merging, rolling back commits, forking, and submitting pull requests.

JavaScript

JavaScript powers the user experience of the web. Students learn the basics of JavaScript syntax, its functional architecture, and different approaches to the object model. Students then learn the Document Object Model (DOM) Javascript API provided by the browser to dynamically interact with HTML. Students use native “vanilla” JavaScript (versus a library). Students then explore the popular Javascript framework React.

React

Using plain JavaScript with large web applications quickly becomes unruly. Initially created by Facebook, React is the premier JavaScript framework for building fast web user interfaces. This unit starts with the fundamentals of components. Students learn how to build the basics of React before they are taught how to use React itself. After building a minimal React, students conquer the complexities of React and then quickly move into learning about state management. After completing this unit, your applications will effortlessly consume APIs, render data quickly, and scale as application complexity increases.

Units Covered:

• Leading Self
• Communicating for Impact
• Entrepreneurial Thinking
• Project Management
• Working with Others

Learning Outcomes:

• Manage your mindset, behaviors, and workplace relationships to help you stand out in your organization and in your industry as a leader.
• Demonstrate engagement with others to strengthen team cohesiveness and effectiveness.
• Persuade others using oral and written communication techniques.
• Recognize and solve problems using the most appropriate strategy for the specific context
  Apply the core tenets of project management from establishing project goals & objectives and building a project plan to managing resources, meeting deadlines and closing the project.

Ruby

Students learn fundamental concepts in programming including repls, methods, loops, variables, variable scope, conditionals, blocks and iterators, case statements, arrays, scope, hashes, regular expressions, iterators, enumerable, data structures, nesting, and more. Topics build in complexity and provide the foundation for the rest of the course.

We help students embrace error messages as clues and gain a fundamental appreciation for failure as the only way to learn and progress. Students gain experience in debugging with various gems and tools designed to track down issues in code.

Object Orientation

Students gain experience with Object-Oriented Programming and understand how it allows programmers to bundle code and create reusable objects and methods, which allows for increasing complexity in software.

Object Relational Mapping & SQL

ORM (Object Relational Mapping) allows programmers to query and manipulate data from a database using an object-oriented paradigm. Students learn to write and manipulate data using the Ruby language.

They gain an appreciation for the structure of a database, how to map out tables, and the difference between the various table relationships. Students learn how to wireframe database structures, as well as how to link their applications to a database. They also cover SQL, domain modeling, relational database theory, schema architecture, and the Object Relational Model, including the Active Record pattern.

Rails

With a foundation in the Ruby language, as well as the architecture of the World Wide Web, students utilize Rails to build complex, functional web applications from the ground up. They learn the file structure of Rails, how to set up their own databases, how to draw routes and create Rails forms, gain an understanding of the asset pipeline, and bring it together by integrating front-end design skills. The topics covered in this unit include architectural patterns such as REST (Representational State Transfer), MVC (Model-View-Controller), creating web APIs, serializing JSON data, and application environments. Students also have the ability to take on more advanced concepts such as authorization, validation, and callbacks. Once they grasp the basic functionality of Rails, they spend time building out their own Rails applications, moving through the entire process from ideation to execution

Capstone

After completing four curriculum phases focused on group projects, students work with instructors to come up with solo project concepts and spend dedicated time building truly sophisticated applications on their own. Students receive plenty of instructor feedback along the way while diving deep into various advanced technologies needed to bring their concepts to life.