Overview

Prepare for a career as a Full Stack Developer by learning to create, code, and maintain web applications from the ground up. This hands-on program covers front end and back end development using industry-standard tools, giving you the skills to build fully functional web applications and a professional portfolio.

Syllabus

Web Development with HTML & CSS

Start building websites by hand-coding HTML & CSS
Create multi-page websites with text, images, & more
Learn how to style with CSS
Upload your files using FTP to make the site live

Advanced HTML & CSS

Master important CSS concepts such as positioning, advanced CSS selectors, relative type sizing (px, em, rem), calc(), and much more
Learn sophisticated styling with multiple background images, transparent color using RGBA, CSS gradients, shadows, and more
Create animated effects using CSS transitions & transforms

Flexbox, Grid, & Bootstrap

CSS Flexbox for laying out and aligning webpage content.
CSS Grid for an entirely new way to think about laying out entire webpages.
Learn how to use Bootstrap (which is made with Flexbox) to build out layouts quickly.

Front-End Tools & Portfolio

Go from design to coded website, with guidance from an expert developer
What Git is and how it works
Installing and setting up Git to track changes in your code
Using GitHub for collaboration with other developers

JavaScript for Front-End

Write JavaScript code to add animation and interactivity to webpages
Learn the fundamentals of the JavaScript language (variables, loops, arrays, functions, etc.)
Understand how to use free pre-made JavaScripts to quickly can add many different kinds of common functionality
Create animated slideshows and build animated image enlargers
Learn to animate any content within a webpage—including SVG—using GreenSock (GSAP)

JavaScript Programming Bootcamp

Fundamentals of JavaScript programming from the ground up
Variables, Conditional Logic (if-else), Arrays, Objects, and Loops
Newest ES6 and ES7 features, including Arrow Functions, let and const
Functions, parameters-arguments, and return values
Higher Level Functions and Callbacks
Array and String Methods
Asynchronous JavaScript with Promises and async-await
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)
Parsing and working with JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data
OOP (Object Oriented Programming) and Modules
Coding Interview Challenge Prep
Projects and Portfolio Development
JS Libraries, including 3D in the browser with D3 and Three.js

JavaScript Development with Node, Express, & MongoDB

Synchronous and Asynchronous JavaScript in Node.js
The purpose of Node Package Manager (NPM)
The fundamentals of starting an Express.js server
The Integration of MongoDB (a NoSQL database)
Authentication and server security
API Development

React Development Bootcamp

The fundamentals of React functionality: components, props, and state
The lifecycle of React Hooks: useEffect, useState, useContext, and more
Understand one way data binding and reusability of React Components
The use of Higher Order Component (HOC) in React
Front end web security
Understand the complete cycle of full stack web development using the MERN stack

Entering the Web Development Industry

Create and polish a portfolio of projects
Get practice with solving algorithms
Prepare for interviews with mock questions

Web Development Labs (Self-Paced)

Code-along to book (class-style)
On-your-own coding challenges (but with kickstarter code/scaffolding)
Job interview-style challenges (harder, no scaffolding, ok-better-best solutions)
Debugging code (errors and/or flaws in logic that make it not work)
Targeted drills: "reps" to build specific skills