Revamping the web development curriculum

new-curriculum.md

Module we could remove

• Buzzword bingo
  • Teaches: API Usage -> pushed to Express Gallery
• Network broadcast news
  • Teaches: Sockets -> pushed to HTTP Socket Server
• Bookshelf.js
  • Teaches: ORM -> Nothing
• JS Constructors
  • Teaches: Prototype -> Already covered in JS-zombies
• Elemental HTTP Server
  • Teaches: Nothing, mainly re-enforces FS and Callbacks

Module that could be rewritten

• Fun-Arrays
  • Remove the needs for rounding numbers
• Async 1 - 4
  • Compress into a single exercise
• Aritcles and Products
  • Start with DB in mind rather than with a fake one

Week 1: The Basics

Scope, Hoisting, Closures, Context, Strict Mode, Fat Arrow,
DOM, CSS, Debugging, Pixel Painter, Functional Arrays, 100 specs

Day 1:

• Intros: 9 - 12:30
• 1:30 - 4:30: Review InstallFest, Scope, Hoisting, Closures, Calculator, Cash Register
• 4:30: Assign Secret Number Generator, Vault

Day 2:

• 9:00AM: Stand up, Review Secret Number Generator, Vault
• 10:00AM - 12:30PM: Review DOM, CSS, Chrome Debugging, Strict Mode
• 1:30PM: Context, Fat Arrow
• 4:30PM: Assign Applied DOM

Day 3:

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Review Applied DOM
• 10:30AM: Assign Pixel Painter

Day 4:

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Review Pixel Painter
• 10:30AM: Functional Arrays Lecture
• 12:00PM: Assign Fun Arrays

Day 5:

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Review Functional Arrays
• 10:30AM: Data Structures Lecture
• 12:00PM: Assign LinkedList

Day 6:

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Paper Towers
• 10:30AM: Jam on LinkedList, Polish pixel painter, finish previous assignments

Week 2: Advanced JS & CS Theory

OOP, Prototype
Data Structures, LinkedList, Recursion, Algorithms

Day 1

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Review LinkedLists
• 10:30AM: Recursion Lecture
• 12:00PM: Chirp-Chirp

Day 2

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Review Chirp Chirp
• 10:30AM: Algorithms and sorting Lecture
• 2:00PM:Assign Sorting Algorithms

Day 3

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Review Sorting Algorithms
• 10:30AM: OOP Lecture
• 12:00PM: Assign JS Zombies ES6

Day 4

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Review JS Zombies ES6
• 10:30AM: Prototypes
• 12:00PM: JS Zombies ES 5

Day 5

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Review JS Zombies ES5
• 10:30AM: TDD Lecture
• 12:00PM: Assign Behavior Driven Shopping

Day 6

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Computers are Robots
• 10:30AM: Jam on Behavior Driven Shopping

Week 3: Network

TDD, XHR, Rebirth of reddit
Node, Events, Streams, HTTP Socket Server

Day 1

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Review Behavior Driven Shopping
• 10:30AM: XHR Lecture
• 12:00PM: Async 1 & 2

Day 2

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Review Async
• 10:30AM: SASS & Gulp
• 1:30PM: Rebirth of Reddit

Day 3

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Jam on Rebirth of Reddit

Day4

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Review Rebirth of Reddit
• 10:30AM: Node Lecture
• 11:30: Events Lecture
• 1:30PM: Streams Leture
• 2:30PM: HTTP Socket Server

Day 5

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Jam on HTTP Socket Server

Day 6

• 9:00AM: Stand Up
• 9:30AM: Review HTTP Socket Server
• 10:30AM: Be Positive
• 11:30AM: 100 specs

Week 4: Open Week

Normally we would have Elemental HTTP Server, Article and Products, and Buzzword here

• Express, Middleware - Articles and Products is probably still needed here
• SpaceTeam

Week 5: Database

• TubeHacked

Week 6: Express, Middleware

Week 7: Angular

Week 8: React

Week 9 & 10: CMS

Week 11 & 12: Final Project