Welcome to the Project module! Congratulations on making it this far!
In the upcoming 7 weeks you'll be immersed into the web developer life. By the end of it you will have created a full-stack web application and published it to the internet.
Everything you have learned so far will be combined and put into practice. Added to that you'll learn some more cutting-edge technologies that will prepare you for a great start in a modern software company. We will start out with the basics and incrementally add more complexity. This way you'll learn how all the pieces of a RESTful API fit together, thereby gaining a deeper understanding of where the backend stops and frontend starts.
Along with practicing your programming skills you will also be working on your communication skills. This is just as important, because you need to be able to communicate your ideas and efforts in an easy-to-understand manner.
During the Project you will work on your technical and communication skills. At the end of this module you'll learn the following:
Technical skills:
- How to
build a complete full-stack application - Understanding
how each part of an application relatesto each other - What it means to work on a
feature - How to work with
GIT in a team setting - How to write
readable code
Communication skills:
- How to
communicate effectivelywith team members Keeping trackof your project's progress- Knowing if you
understand what's askedof you - How to
communicate with non-developersabout what you're doing - Learning how to be
solutions-oriented - How to work in a
Agile setting
In the following table you'll see the outline for each week. Notice how you'll be working on both the technical and communication sides of the project.
| Week # | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1. | Introducing Project, Build the backend |
| 2. | Build the frontend |
| 3. | Bring everything together |
| 4. | Presentation, Discuss Features |
| 5. | Group: Working on features I |
| 6. | Group: Working on features II |
| 7. | Final Presentation |
There have been other classes before who have been through the same process.
Click on the following link to see examples of their projects.
Congratulations for finishing the Project module! You may call yourself a worthy junior web developer now. You are also now part of the HackYourFuture Alumni Network.
What now? Simple! Just go here.
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