Code 301: Intermediate Software Development
Welcome to Code 301! This class builds on your 201 foundation with a deep dive into the world of servers. Using React, Node.js, npm libraries, and Bootstrap, this class prepares you for 401.
Overview
Code 301 begins with front end development using React and Bootstrap. Module 2 introduces the back-end and building servers to serve files to a React front-end. Module 3 brings everything together with the development of a full-stack application from start to finish. The final module is team-based project work.
General Daily Plan
- Warm-up exercise
- Review code challenges and whiteboarding
- Introduction of today's code challenge topic
- Code review of lab assignment
- Code demo of new topics
- Lab preview
- Code challenge implementation
- Collaborative lab time
Learning Objectives
As a result of completing Code 301, students will:
- Collaboratively design and create web applications from scratch using MVC architecture built with professional-grade HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Work with string, array, and object data structures and algorithms to solve code challenges with pure JavaScript programming.
- Design dynamic front end and back end applications which can function together or independently and are deployed to cloud platforms.
- Explain the fundamentals of how the World Wide Web works, over the internet.
- Utilize dependency management techniques to build with third-party libraries such as ExpressJS, React, and Bootstrap.
- Persist data Mongo databases, sourced from third-party API or user-generated content.
- Follow agile software development practices during week-long sprints, including pair-programming, stand-ups, daily retrospectives, project management with Kanban boards, regular refactoring, and working in a shared code base.
- Enroll in a Code 401 course or attain an entry-level website development job or internship by completing the course requirements.