SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM

Curriculum

week 1

Orientation

week 2

1 Web Development Basics
- Web Fundamentals
- The Command Line
- The IDE
- Using Git to Collaborate
- Github

week 3

2 Software Engineering and Web Design
- Agile Web Development
- Principles of Software Engineering
- Introduction to Product Design
- Introduction to User Experience (UX)
- The Design Process
- Elements of Visual Design
- Building and Using Mockups
3 Markup and Styling
- 3.1
  - Pseudocoding
  - HTML5

week 4

3 Markup and Styling
- 3.2
  - CSS3 and SASS preprocessing
  - Developer Tools
  - Debugging Markup
4 JavaScript Programming
- 4.1 JavaScript Fundamentals, part 1
  - Hello, world!
  - Code structure
  - The modern mode, "use strict"
  - Variables
  - Intro to Data types
  - Type Conversions
  - Operators

week 5

4 JavaScript Programming
- 4.2 JavaScript Fundamentals, part 2
  - Interaction: alert, prompt, confirm
  - Conditional operators: if, '?'
  - Loops: while and for
  - The "switch" statement
- 4.3 Data types Methods
  - String methods
  - Number methods
  - Array methods
  - Date methods
  - Objects
- 4.4 Functions
  - Functions
  - Function expressions and arrows
  - Functional Programming

week 6

4 JavaScript Programming
- 4.5
  - OOP javascript
  - SOLID Design Principles
- 4.6
  - The Module Pattern
  - This, Scope and Closures
  - Javascript DOM(events and effects)
  - jQuery
- 4.7
  - Error Handling
  - Refactoring and Debugging
  - Namespacing
  - ES6

week 7

5 React + Redux
- 5.1
  - AJAX
  - Overview of Frontend Frameworks
  - Templating Frameworks
- 5.2
  - Frontend Data Modeling
  - The React Environment
  - Components and State
  - Props
- 5.3
  - Routing
  - Redux vs Context API
  - React Hooks
  - Webpack

week 8

6 Data Modeling
- 6.1
  - Data Relationships
  - Designing a Data Model
  - Data Normalization
- 6.2
  - Relational Databases
  - Alternative Databases
  - Entity Relationship Modeling (ERM)
7 Working with SQL
- 7.1
  - Working with Database Schemas
  - Create-Read-Update-Destroy (CRUD)
  - Joins
  - Aggregate Functions and Groups
  - Sub Queries
8 Working with NoSQL
- 8.1
  - NoSQL OPERATIONS
- 8.2
  - Serialization
  - Modelling NoSQL data
  - Document Databases (MongoDB)
  - NoSQL Best Practices

week 9

9 NodeJS
- 9.1 *Server-Side JavaScript
  - JavaScript Build Processes
  - Event Loop and Emitters
  - File System Interaction
10 Express + APIs
- 10.1
  - HTTP in Depth
  - Calling APIs
  - Reading API documentation
  - Basic API Authentication
- 10.2
  - ExpressJS
  - Building your own APIs (CRUD)
- 10.3
  - API-Based Sign-In with SDKs
  - Uploading to Amazon S3

week 10

10 Express + APIs
- 10.4
  - Deploying JavaScript Applications
11 Building Resilient Software Application for Scale (Introduction)
- Overview of resilient applications
- Concepts of Microservices
- Service Discovery and Security
- Messaging/Communication between two Systems - Protocols involve
- Scaling Application Layer
- Scaling Database Layer
- Application documentation (ad-on)