Overall Course Learning Objectives

At the end of this course the students should be able to:

• demonstrate the necessary skills required for an entry-level junior web developer role. More specifically:
  • design, implement, debug, and deploy simple full-stack web applications using Node.js and MongoDB or PostgreSQL for back-end, React, HTML5 & CSS for front-end, and Git and GitHub for source control and collaboration.
• represent themselves well in relevant job applications, both on paper, and in interviews.

module-level objectives

JavaScript (I, II, III)

At the end of the set of JavaScript modules, the students should be able to:

• demonstrate foundational skills used by all programmers
• read and write JavaScript code at a level sufficient to use the libraries and frameworks introduced in the later modules, and to be able to understand and perform various simple data manipulation tasks that might be asked of a junior web developer.