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📚 [INSERT YOUR NAME] Learning Plan

A 90 day learning plan to learn the basics of OOP, get a command of Full Stack Javascript, build clean UIs with React, explore the cutting edge, and practice skills you'll need to be productive team member like advanced git and TDD.

Skills Covered:

  • 💎 Object Oriented Programming
  • 💎 ES6+ Javascript
  • 💎 Node
  • 💎 Mongo
  • 💎 PostgreSQL
  • 💎 React
  • 💎 Redux
  • 💎 React Native
  • 💎 Git/Github
  • 💎 CS Theory
  • 💎 Test Driven Development

How it works

The plan is broken down into 9 week chunks. Each week will have the following:

  • 📖 Important Readings
  • 📼 Supplemental Videos To Watch
  • 💻 Practice Problems
  • 👩🏽‍💻 A project that you will submit via Github to receive feedback

Weekly Plans


Week01

Day 01 Material Why
Read The JS Way Ch. 01 To help refresh the basics of JS
Read The JS Way Ch. 02 Learn the new ES6+ variable syntax
Watch JS Fundamental Video Review of all the major concepts in JS
Do Sign Up for JS30 Daily Challenges that will help you learn JS
Do Sign Up for CodeWars Daily Challenges that will help you learn JS
Day 02 Material Why
Read The JS Way Ch. 03 Learn proper conditional syntax including switch statements
Read The JS Way Ch. 04 Better understand loops
Do JS30 #01 Learn to interact with the DOM && use Audio
Do CodeWars Fundamentals JS syntax / problem solving practice
Day 03 Material Why
Read The JS Way Ch. 05 Learn all about functions including new ES6+ fat arrow syntax
Read The JS Way Ch. 06 Get comfortable with objects again
Watch JS Object Fundamentals Video Review JS Objects
Do CodeWars: 1 Kata JS syntax && problem solving practice
Day 04 Material Why
Read The JS Way Ch. 07 Get comfortable with using / manipulating arrays 🚨 IMPORTANT FOR INTERVIEWS
Read The JS Way Ch. 08 Learn important string methods 🚨 IMPORTANT FOR INTERVIEWS
Do JS30 #02 Learn JS Fundamentals && CSS manipulation with JS
Do CodeWars: 1 Kata JS syntax && problem solving practice
Day 05 Material Why
Read The JS Way Ch. 09 Dive into the basics of Object Oriented Javascript
Watch JS OOP Crash Course Review OOJS
Do Build a Simple Calculator using JS OOP best practices Reinforce OOP and get comfortable submitting PRs on Github
Weekend Material Why
Read You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes REALLY LEARN JS OOP principles
Do Refactor your Calculator and Resubmit Reinforce OOP and get comfortable submitting PRs on Github

Week02

PostgreSQL

Day 01 Material Why
Read Big O Notation Explained To help refresh the basics of Big O Notation
Watch Big O Video Big O explained simply in video
Do CodeWars: 1 Kata JS syntax && problem solving practice
Day 02 Material Why
Read The Imposters Handbook - Big O Chapter Deeper Dive into Big O
Watch MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL Video breaks down the differences
Day 03 Material Why
Read PostgreSQL / MySQL comparison Learn all about the difference btw PostgreSQL and MySQL
Watch Great Simple Intro. to PostgreSQL Simple intro to PostgreSQL 🚨 WATCH ALL 4 Videos
Do CodeWars: 1 Kata JS syntax && problem solving practice
Day 04 Material Why
Do If you haven't yet INSTALL PostgreSQL Redo the queries from yesterdays video without looking at the answers. Ask for help in #_help
Do JS30 #06 Learn JS Fundamentals && Yes, we are skipping - doing just the 🤑 money projects 🤑
Do CodeWars: 1 Kata JS syntax && problem solving practice
Day 05 Material Why
Read ACTIVELY READ: PostgreSQL Tutorial Sections 1 - 3 Dive into the basics of PostgreSQL
Do Setup a PostgreSQL DB and do a complex query Reinforce PostgreSQL learning from this week
Weekend Material Why
Read ACTIVELY READ: PostgreSQL Tutorial Sections 4 - 9 REALLY LEARN PostgreSQL