Course overview

4 modules of 3 sprints delivered over 12-16 weeks

Objective

The objective of this course is to give people with no prior software development experience an introduction to programming and thinking about data. Common next-steps after this course are to get an entry level job in tech or IT, or to continue learning more advanced software engineering techniques to prepare for a software engineering job.

Primarily this is achieved by teaching programming concepts with JavaScript and Python and data concepts with SQL in spreadsheets. We also focus on professional development skills such as communicating effectively and working well on a team.

A pre-requisite of this course is having completed Code Your Future’s Intro to Digital course which teaches the basics of HTML and CSS.

Modules

Welcome to Code Your Future

Getting to know how the course works

  1. Create a work folder
  2. Check Git Installation
  3. Version control software
  4. Sharing history

Onboarding

Version control

  1. Inspecting a commit
  2. Inspecting previous versions
  3. Forking a repository
  4. Working locally
  5. Viewing files from a git clone
  6. Branching
  7. Merging
  8. Form building

Collecting and formatting data

  1. Install a UNIX based operating system
  2. Install Node with nvm
  3. Interacting with computers
  4. Using an interface
  5. Terminal interface
  6. Prep dir
  7. Running scripts
  8. Logging
  9. Classifying data
  10. Saving expressions
  11. Declarations and statements
  12. Comparing current and target output
  13. Conditionally executing code
  14. Errors
  15. Interpreting errors
  16. Interpreting this error
  17. Reusing variable names

Querying data, considering presentation

  1. Interview Introductions
  2. Functions
  3. Percentages
  4. Declaring functions
  5. Playing computer
  6. Scope
  7. Returning from a function
  8. Reusing the function
  9. Parameterising a function
  10. Solving Problems with Functions
  11. Throwing Errors
  12. Pseudocode
  13. Breaking Down a Problem
  14. Undoing a Commit
  15. Ignoring Files

Structuring and testing data

Programming fundamentals

  1. Evaluating expressions

Comparisons, assertions, and breaking down problems

  1. Comparing current and target output
  2. Writing an assertion
  3. Forming sub-goals
  4. Accessing strings
  5. Refactoring repetition
  6. Identifying missing tests

Test cases with Jest

  1. Testing frameworks
  2. Starting a project
  3. Using packages
  4. Installing Jest
  5. Jest's Application Programming Interface
  6. First test case
  7. Interpreting feedback
  8. Dead Code
  9. Generalising further
  10. Anonymous functions
  11. Arrow functions
  12. Testing Workshop

Data groups

Grouping data: Arrays and loops

  1. Prep dir
  2. Creating test files
  3. Grouping data
  4. Arrays
  5. Iteration
  6. References
  7. Mutation
  8. Side effects
  9. Arrays Workshop
  10. Fail Fast Prep

Grouping data: Objects

  1. Ordered data
  2. Key-value pairs
  3. Accessing properties
  4. Query strings
  5. Parsing a single key-value pair
  6. Access with variables
  7. Parsing multiple parameters
  8. Objects Workshop
  9. Prep Conflict Resolution

The DOM

  1. User interfaces
  2. Implementing a character limit
  3. The DOM
  4. Querying the DOM
  5. Updating the interface
  6. Timers
  7. DOM events
  8. Reacting to events
  9. Refactor

Data flows

UI Components

  1. How the internet works
  2. Usability Workshop Pre-reading
  3. Rendering Data as UI
  4. Composing elements
  5. Creating elements with functions
  6. Creating elements with <template>
  7. Reusable components
  8. Using map

State and Rendering

  1. Gathering requirements
  2. Reacting to user input
  3. Identifying state
  4. Refactoring to state+render
  5. Introducing new state
  6. Rendering based on state
  7. Capturing the user event
  8. Re-rendering
  9. Actually re-rendering

Fetch and Asynchrony

  1. Fetching data
  2. Latency
  3. Synchronous execution
  4. Callbacks
  5. Requesting from a server side API
  6. Promises
  7. .then()
  8. async/await
  9. Fetch Films