syllabus.md

##WDI Syllabus

####Week 0: PREWORK

• Prework
• Installfest

####Week 1: INTRO TO PROGRAMMING

• Command line (UNIX)
• Git basics
• Ruby

####Week 2: INTRO TO THE WEB (HTTP)

• How the web works (HTTP request/response, TCP)
• Sinatra
• HTML/CSS
• Forms and POST
• File I/O

####Week 3: SINATRA MVC

• SQL
• Sinatra & SQL
• Sinatra & ActiveRecord
• ActiveRecord Associations
• Intro to MVC
• Bundler/gemfile
• Deployment (Heroku)

####Week 4: RAILS MVC

• Scaffold
• Generators
• Routes, Controllers and Views
• ActiveRecord Associations
• Form helpers
• Partials
• Project brainstorming (individual project)

####Week 5: Individual Project week

• Potential Modules:
  • APIs
  • Front End Framework (Bootstrap / Foundation)
  • Authentication (Fundamentals, Devise, OmniAuth)
  • Markdown
  • Config overview, initializers & environment
  • Styleguides
  • File Upload (Carrierwave, AWS/S3)
  • Scraping (nokogiri, mechanize)
• Project Presentations

####Week 6: JavaScript

• Programming fundamentals in JS
• First class functions
• Prototypical Inheritance
• DOM Manipulation
• Events/Animation
• Jasmine
• Underscore.js

####Week 7: JavaScript Frameworks

• Comprehensive JavaScript Lab
• jQuery
  • Advanced DOM manipulation/traversal
  • Events / Animation
  • Plugins
• AJAX
• Project Management & Project Planning

####Week 8: Group Project Week

• Potential Modules:
  • Advanced git
  • Charting
  • D3
  • CoffeeScript
  • Pagination
  • Emailing
• Project Presentations

####Week 9: Client Side JavaScript Frameworks

• JavaScript Templating
• Choose one client-side MVC:
  • Ember
    • Angular
    • Backbone
• Portfolio Project

####Week 10: Performance, Optimization, Advanced Rails

• Rake
• SCSS
• Mongo
• Group Lab

####Week 11: Computer Science

• Binary, Hex
• Linked lists
• Recursion
• Time Complexity
• Sorting
• Group Lab

####Week 12: Final Projects

• Interview Questions
• Project Presentations