wednesday-630.md

Fall 2024 Web Dev Track
Class Schedule and Materials

Week 01 (Aug 28)

Lecture Slides (coming soon)

Bootstrap Lab

Topics:

• Semester Overview
• Designing Web Apps
• Review: HTML & CSS
• Lab Bootstrap 5.2

Assignments:

• Project Ideation: provide your idea in the ideation document
  • If you did not finish this in class finish it immediately after class
  • Ideation slides are bookmarked in your Slack channel
• Meet your classmates and form teams
  • Read through your classmates ideas and contact them over slack
  • Formed teams due in Week 2 class
• Complete and submit the Bootstrap Lab by Week 2

Week 02 (Sept 04)

Topics:

• React Intro

Assignments:

Teams should submit a team project proposal by start of Week 3 class

Week 03 (Sept 11)

Topics:

• URL's & HTTP
  • Understanding Client-Server Communication and HTTP Request-Response
• fetch(...), Promises, and fetching in React

Week 04 (Sept 18)

Topics:

• Career Coach Workshop
• Project Development
  • Team Collaboration
  • Working On A Team

Week 05 (Sept 25)

Topics:

• Fullstack Overview: Frontend
• Intro to API

NO CLASS (Sept 30 - Oct 4)

• No CTP classes scheduled this week

Week 06 (Oct 9)

Topics:

• Fullstack Overview: Backend
• About npm & node
• Building a backend with Express.js
  • Routing
  • Route Parameters
  • Query Parameters
  • Body Parameters

Week 07 (Oct 16)

Topics:

• Presentation Tips
• Data Data Database
• Setting up PostgreSQL locally
• Intro to Sequelize

Week 08 (Oct 23)

Topics:

• Presentation

Week 09 (Oct 30)

Topics:

• Full Stack Overview

Week 10 (Nov 06)

Topics:

• Team Project Presentations
• Implementing Authentication (recording)
  • Sessions
  • Passport.js
  • Bcrypt
• Code Reviews & Software Engineering Best Practices
• Resource link

Week 11 (Nov 13)

Topics:

• Career Coach Workshop
• Deploying the project starter
• Lab Time: Work on Projects

Week 12 (Nov 20)

Topics:

• Lab Time: Work on Projects

NO CLASS (Nov 25-29)

• No CTP classes scheduled this week
• Enjoy Thanksgiving Break

Week 13 (Dec 04)

Topics:

• Practice Demo Night Pitches and Demos
• Lab Time: Work on Projects

DEMO NIGHT (TBD)

• Location: TBD
• Time: TBD