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Preliminary Syllabus for Honing Your Craft...Skill up from 'Coder' to 'Software Engineer'

Total: 16 weeks

Introductory concepts (~2 weeks)

Version control (git)

Basics of good project-management

Working well with a team, communication skills

Frontend development (~2 weeks)

HTML/CSS/TypeScript basics

Consider high level of TypeScript strictness

Using a package manager (npm)

Using a component library

Introduction to Angular and frontend web frameworks

Consider Inkubasia pain points: observables, routes, memory, etc.

More general concepts (~2 weeks)

How to split up changes into small, well-tested commits

How to code-review well

Best practices for testing

Backend development (~4 weeks)

Introduction to Node.js and web servers

Deploying a website (domains, DNS, options for hosting, etc.: focus on cloud-based services)

Managing a push

Basics of relational DBs and ORMs (MySQL, Sequelize)

Basics security principles

Being careful with APIs, frontend

Basics of web APIs, how to call from frontend

Putting it all together (~6 weeks)

Work on final project (open-ended)

Working in groups of 3-4

Should put into practice the general concepts being taught (e.g. project management, code review, testing)

Lectures on more general topics:

Basic algorithms and data structures, technical interview prep

Good coding practices (modularization, DRY, writing architecture documents, etc.)

Get student input on additional topics to cover

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