general assembly web developer course contents

7/28/2019 General Assembly Web Developer Course Contents

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Week 1: Setting Up a Development Environment

Terminal

Sublime Text

XCode

Rails

Ruby

Databases

Week 2: Introduction to Github, HTML5, CSS3, Ruby

Apply push and pull commands in Github

Practice designing a basic HTML site using the common tags and

applying the new HTML5 tags

Apply CSS to HTML sites to separate content from presentation/style

Apply the fundamentals of object-oriented programming to Ruby by

using variables, operators, conditionals, loops and functions

Retrieve and apply Gems in a Ruby program

Week 3: Databases, Introduction to Ruby on Rails

Describe and experiment with various relational database solutions

(Postgres, MySQL, SQL)

Describe and apply the MVC framework

Describe how models work, and experiment with creating models for a

web app

Test out your models, create associations to your models, and

determine how to query the data in a model

Describe and apply routing to your app and implement controllers

Apply a UI component to your app by integrating controllers with views

Integrate your models with routing, controllers, and views

Week 4: Ruby on Rails

Build custom apps by integrating routing, controllers, views, and

databases

Integrate forms into your web application

Integrate authentication (login) into your web application

Apply project management tools to your projects Apply branch, merge, fork and clone commands in Github


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Deploy your application to Heroku

Week 5: JavaScript

Describe how the integration of JavaScript and Rails works to make

your application interactive

Assign values to variables, understand data types, conditionals, loops,

and functions

Create objects and translate them into JSON

Demonstrate how to manipulate the DOM using jQuery selectors

Navigate and use the jQuery API documentation effectively

Integrate events such as ready and mouse and keyboard events into

your web application

Week 6: AJAX

Write JavaScript that allows the browser to communicate with the

server without reloading the current page, to do things like validate or save

form input and refresh images

Trigger JavaScript events that interact with databases and integrate

with Rails applications to create dynamic pages that load quickly and

seamlessly

Week 7: Testing, Debugging, Exception Handling

Build functionality based on tests by applying test driven development

techniques (TDD/BDD) using RSpec

Write unit tests, functional tests, and integration tests

Build Rails applications with testing in mind

Week 8: Integrating with External APIs

Describe what an API is and how to retrieve data from various third

party APIs

Practice using external APIs such as email APIs, SMS text messaging,

maps integration, Twitter, and Flickr

Implement payments into Rails applications using Stripe

Week 9: Computer Science


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Create more efficient and elegant solutions to problems by applying

fundamental computer science concepts to applications

Differentiate between various data structures and their purpose (linked

lists, stacks, hashtables, etc.)

Build programs using the appropriate data structures and algorithms to

optimize for performance

Evaluate the Big O runtime of various algorithms used within

applications

Week 10: Advanced Ruby on Rails

Explore and assess the advantages of alternative database solutions

(NoSQL)

Create asynchronous solutions by applying queueing and messaging to

an application

Reduce expensive calls to the database by applying caching to an

application

Evaluate the analytics of a web application

Monitor your site to track performance and uptime (Airbrake)

Apply Bootstrap, SASS, and HAML to create cleaner front-end

solutions

Week 11: Additional JavaScript Frameworks

Create more structured and maintainable code by applying the

Backbone.js framework to your applications

Recognize various other JavaScript frameworks such as Node.js

Week 12: Security, Performance, and Optimization

Make sure your application is secure by applying best practices to avoid

site crashes and service attacks

Simulate load testing on your applications

Apply mcache techniques and CSS compression to optimize for

performance

Apply best practices in JavaScript to increase speed and utilize less

bandwidth

Final Project Presentations Present your final project to the General Assembly community


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