This course is divided into 8 Modules, extending over 2 sections.

The first half of the course (the "Backend Section") is made up of 4 modules:

• REST APIs
• Authentication and Authorization
• Realtime (Sockets, Messages, Queuing)
• Serverless Applications

The second half of the course (the "Frontend Section") is comprised of 4 modules, focused on React

• React Basics / Component Based Design
• Hooks and Context
• Redux
• React Native and other Frameworks

• Mastery of JavaScript Fundamentals
  • Objects, Factories, Classes
  • Standard and Arrow Functions
  • Looping, Iteration, Traversal of Arrays and Objects
  • Recursion
  • Documentation best practices with JSDoc
• Understanding of core data structures
  • When each structure is most appropriate
  • Real world applications of each structure
  • Looping, Iteration, Traversal
    • Stacks & Queues
    • Linked Lists
    • Trees
    • Graphs
    • Hash Tables
• Creation and operation of an Express web server
  • Static Routes
  • Dynamic Routes
  • EJS
• Creation and operation of an Express API Server
  • RESTful, Dynamic Model Management
  • Authenticated Access with RBAC
  • Swagger Documentation
• Event driven application development using Socket.io and Web Sockets
• Creation and operation of a Socket.io Message Queue Server and Client Library
• Creation of a single page web app in React
• Creation of a mobile app with React Native
• Deploy a website to AWS, Heroku, Netlify
• Deploy an API, Database, Lambda Functions, and Queueing Service at AWS

It's advisable that students first make an new organization in Github (perhaps called '401-js-their-name') that these repositories can be created in, to organize things better.

• READING (Due before each lecture)

  • Reading assignments should be done as articles/notes in the *wiki- of their repo fork

• LAB Assignments (4 per module)

  • 10 Points (graded on the rubric)
  • ~ 3-5 Hours
  • Should be completed in a new repository for each day
  • Generally, these are smaller implementations, refactors, and practice to support the lecture concept. Not necessarily a full-scale application.
  • Code must be tested through GitHub Actions and deployed through either Heroku or AWS
  • JS Code must be documented with JSDoc
  • Students must use the README.md template (from the resources folder) to complete their assignment
  • The README requires working links to deployed code, GitHub Actions tests, functional documentation, test documentation and a UML and/or data-flow diagram.

• DS&A IMPLEMENTATION

  • 10 Points (complete/incomplete)
  • Installed at the root level of your data-structures-and-algorithms repository
  • These will be used as libraries to solve code challenges

• DS&A CODE CHALLENGE (4 per module)

  • 5 points (3 points for whiteboard, 1 point for testing, 1 point for working code)
  • Generally requires a working implementation (above) to work
  • TimeBox execution to ~ 1 Hour

• END OF EACH MODULE

  • New Data Structure (as noted above): Modules 1,2,3 & 6,7,8
  • Project Group Prep: Modules 4 and 8
  • Generally Paired
  • Takes the learnings/components/modules from the previous 4 classes and has the students assemble them into a larger/full-scale application.