Pisgah Tech Tutoring - Schedule & Curriculum

Schedule

We are scheduled for classes from 5:30-7:30pm on the Mondays and Thursdays of the following weeks:

Week	Monday	Thursday
1	June 11	June 14
2	June 18	June 21
3	June 25	June 28
** No classes week of July 4th **
4	July 9	July 12
5	July 16	July 19
6	July 23	July 26
7	July 30	August 2

Curriculum

Week 1

• Computer setup
• • Application installs
• • command line tools
• HTML/CSS basics
• Responsive web development
• basic navigation and tasks in Terminal
• using basic Git and GitHub workflows

Week 2

• large PSD-to-semantic-markup-and-css projects
• pixel perfect work on any layout their given
• quality documentation and resources (MDN, Stackoverflow, etc.)
• SCSS syntax, Sass mixins, variable, and functions like darken and lighten.
• refactoring plain CSS into well-written SASS

Week 3

By the end of this week students should understand:

• ES3/5/6/7
  • 3: core
  • 5: array/object methods
  • 6: so many new things, syntax
  • 7: async, observe, comprehensions
• to use: transpiler (compatibility), linter (safety), modules (reusability)
• MS TypeScript, FB Flow, Google SandScript??? (types, typechecking)
• CoffeeScript (moon orbit.. compiles to JS)
• Dart (comet orbit ... OOP, imperative)
• CLJS (functional, immutable, etc)
• basic JavaScript types, operators, statements, and expressions
• jQuery-less DOM traversal (getElementById, querySelectorAll, etc.)
• iteration in JS
• Array.prototype.map, Array.prototype.reduce, Array.prototype.filter, etc.
• Handlebars.js

Week 4

By the end of this week students should understand:

• DOM-related jQuery
• Underscore as a fallback for native methods like: Array.prototype.map
• Underscore chaining
• datamining a large set of JSON objects using Underscore to find average prices, materials etc (generally done with data from Etsy.com)
• Gulp basics
• the basics of HTTP and AJAX
• non-DOM-related jQuery
• building a simple, polling-based chat application using GET and POST HTTP methods
• JS promises (jQuery-flavored)

Week 5

By the end of this week students should understand:

• team-based workflow with Git/GitHub
• git rebase, git pull --rebase, git merge
• JS constructors and the new keyword
• this
• scope
• closures
• currying and partial application

Week 6

By the end of this week students should understand:

• Backbone.Router
• hashbangs vs HTML5 Pushstate API
• Backbone.Model
• Backbone.Collection
• using Backbone's Model and Collection constructors to refactor a previous AJAX project
• basics of JavaScript unit testing
• Mocha and Chai
• Backbone.View
• Building a small JavaScript MVC "todo" app.
• Using REST APIs (with jsonp, CORS, or some other x-domain circumvention method)

Week 7

By the end of this week students should understand:

• all aspects of Backbone.js
• reading and understanding the Backbone.js source code
• relational vs non-relational databases
• React
• React Router and Routes
• Using JavaScript libraries with React (e.g. Google Maps)
• Deploying with create-react-app
• building an HTTP proxy in node.js w/ Express