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Learning Objectives
Students will understand and be able to use the command line for
creating a folder
creating a file
editing a file
changing directories
Students will understand what Git and Github are and how they fit into the web app landscape
Students will be able to clone a repo and know its purpose
Students will be able to add, commit, and push files to github
Students will understand basic branching
Students will understand how to use github in a group setting
Students be able to understand what a "Fork" is and be able to Fork a repo
Students will be able to handle merge conflicts
Students will be able to minimally manage vim to escape merge conflict messages
Students will know how to make a Pull Request
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Learning Objectives
Students will understand the purpose of HTML
Students will understand the purpose of CSS
Students will from scratch, be able to create a skeleton for their html and css page
understand and be able to use the following HTML Elements
p
footer
header
h1 - h6
ul
li
div
Understand and be able to use the following CSS properties
id (#) vs class(.) and specificity
width px & %
height px & %
background-color
background-image
color
font-size
text-align: center
line-height
box-model (margin, padding, border)
float
clear
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Students will be able to use Chrome Dev Tools to inspect their HTML/CSS
Students will understand the purpose of CSS
Students will be able to compare and contrast fixed, relative, absolute, and static positioning in CSS
Students will be able to compare and contrast display block, inline-block, inline, and none
Students will be able to compare and contrast overflow hidden, auto, scroll
Students will understand and be able to use max/min-width and max/min-height
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Students will understand and be able to explain the box model to someone else
Students will understand media queries and be able to implement them
Students will understand when and when not to use floating elements
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Students will understand how the web works:
front-end vs back-end
the web app landscape
Students will understand JavaScript vs jQuery
Students will understand what the DOM is
Students will understand conditional statements and how they’re used
Students will understand functions:
invocation vs definition
parameters vs arguments
global and local scope
anonymous functions
return values and how to save the returned value to another variable
Closures
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Learning Objectives
Objects
Students will understand use cases for objects
Students will understand how to create and add properties/values to objects
Students will understand how to loop through objects
Students will understand how to create and invoke a method
Students will understand bracket notation vs dot notation
Students will understand how to remove keys/props from objects (delete)
Arrays
purpose
how to get values from arrays
array properties (length, push/pop, shift/unshift, split/join, splice/slice, reverse, indexOf)
how to create an array
how to loop through an array
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the purpose of the ‘this’ keyword
4 rules for determining what ‘this’ is bound to
Implicit Binding
Explicit Binding
new binding
Default Binding
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Students will understand synchronous vs asynchronous programming
Students will be able to talk about what a callback is
Students will understand the use cases of callbacks
Students will be able to identify and use callbacks
Students will understand what prototypes are in JavaScript
Students will be able to add a method on a function’s prototype and create instances of that function that invoke the prototypes method
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Mini Project:
Learning Objectives
Students will understand the DOM
Students will be able to make basic manipulations to the DOM
Students will understand visual and functional purpose of the jQuery
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Mini Project:
Learning Objectives
Students will understand the difference between jQuery and Angular and how Angular fits into the web app landscape
Students will understand what a module, controller, directive, and service is in angular
Students will be able to, from scratch, build a basic angular application, put data on a controller's scope, and bind that data to the view
Students will be able to ng-repeat over data
Students will be able to filter data
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Mini Project:
Learning Objectives
Students will understand the purpose of Services in Angular
Students will know how to inject services into their controllers
Students will know how to call methods on their services from in their controllers and put the response on $scope
know the difference between factories and services
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Students will be able to explain what JSON is
Students will be able to explain was REST is
Students will be able to explain what AJAX is
Students will make an ajax request with angular, call .then on the promise and add that data to the $scope
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Students will be able to make $http requests to various APIs
Students will be able to use outside directives and know how to inject those modules into their application
Students will be able to create, return, and resolve their own promises with $q
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Install these before class!:
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Learning Objectives
Students will understand the methodology behind routing and templating
Students will be able to set up a basic routing system with multiple views and controllers using UI-Router
Students will be able to use resolve to resolve data and pass in data to their controller before theirn controller initializes
Students will be able to use stateParams to gather data from the URL
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Mini Project:
Learning Objectives
Students will understand how Directives fit into the Angular ecosystem
Students will be able to create a custom directive and use it in a view
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Students will understand the term CRUD
Students will be able to use Firebase in angular to persist data to a server
Mini-Project : CarFire
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Students will understand how to use Firebase's authentication system
Students will start on their no server project
Review & No server project Day
Requirements
At least 3 routes
At least 2 directives
1 directive can be just a templateUrl for code re-use
1 directive needs to do some javascript (event if it's just elem.css({}) in the link function)
[Bonus] Use Firebase or an API
This should take a back seat to making a solid project with angular
[Bonus 2] Make it look nice! Styling is important to employers. It's important to practice. Feel free to Google for 'inspiration' to mimic.
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Learning Objectives
Students understand what Node is and that it can be used as a server
Student will understand how HTTP works to communicate between client & server
Student will understand the need for a module like express
Student can use require to import a Node module
Student will understand the basic utility of a package.json file
Student can create a HTTP NodeJS server using express
Students can explain endpoints and create basic ones testing them with Postman
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Learning Objectives
Student can require other .js files in the project
Student can use bodyParser to get data out of the body
Student can use req.params
Student is introduced to req.query
Student understands the request response lifecycle in express including the order in which functions are called
Student can utilize middleware
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Learning Objectives
Student can use Express to serve static files
Student can use routing in Express to create basic API endpoints
Student can use route params to make dynamic endpoints
Student can build a front-end Angular application that connects to a back-end NodeJS API
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Before class:
Make sure you've installed MongoDB (Mac or PC )
Mini Project:
Learning Objectives
Understand the DB's place in the web app landscape (MongoDB vs DBaaS like Firebase)
Understand DBs, Collections, and Documents
Understand CRUD operations with MongoDB
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understand what object modeling is and why it’s used
understand the difference between Mongoose and MongoJS
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Mini-Birds Related Learning Objectives
Understand the concept of relationships
Understand the different types of relationships, and when to use them
Understand how and when to use embedded and referential schemas
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Student can distinguish between Basic Auth, Form-based Auth, Token-based Auth, and OAuth
Student can use express sessions to restrict access to resources
Student can use passport to authenticate users with providers like Twitter, Facebook, etc.
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Learning Objectives
Understand how React compares to Angular
Understand how to use Webpack to set up a build process for your React App
Understand how to build a component which modifies and maintains it’s own state
Understand how to pass data into child components as props
Understand how to use CSS with React as well as “inline” styles
CSS in React
Understand how to keep your components state up to date as well as invoke other methods in your component.
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Learning Objectives
Understand the Life Cycle of a Components
Understand how to use propTypes and getDefaultProps
Understand what Mixins are and how they’re useful
How to use React w/ jQuery and specifically to make Ajax requests
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Understand the purpose and benefits of Flux
Understand how to architect a Flux app with the following
actions
stores
constants
dispatcher
components
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