Course overview

Objective

The objective of this course is to train people to get a good job in technology.

Pre-requisites of this course is having completed Code Your Future’s Intro to Programming course which teaches the basics of programming with JavaScript, Python, and SQL.

Outcomes of this course are that you can write high quality code in a language and take a further course to specialise for a job role in tech.

Modules

💻 How computers really work

⏱️ Shell tools, and binary numbers

  1. Read about binary numbers
  2. Read about CPU and RAM
  3. Shell tools

⏱️ Shell tools, hardware, and programming language concepts

  1. Read about programming languages
  2. jq
  3. Shell pipelines

🧰 Tools

⏱️ Implementing shell tools in NodeJS, and Operating Systems concepts

  1. Read about operating systems
  2. Learn NodeJS
  3. Implement tools in NodeJS
  4. Implement a single-use data analysis program

⏱️ Testing shell tools in Python, and Operating Systems concepts

  1. Read about operating systems (2)
  2. Learn Python
  3. Implement tools in Python
  4. Convert a script between languages

🚥 Logic

⏱️ Solving logical problems well, considering edge-cases, and playing computer

🧩 Decomposition

⏱️ Backends and Frontends

  1. Read about the Internet
  2. Limitations of frontends
  3. Responsibilities of frontends, backends, and databases
  4. Write a frontend, backend, and database
  5. Deploy a frontend, backend, and database

⏱️ Building and deploying backends and frontends

  1. Read about the world-wide web
  2. Making a non-live chat application
  3. Deploying the chat application
  4. Long-polling requests
  5. Making chat live

⏱️ Middleware: Extracting common functionality

  1. Different experiences for different users
  2. Extracting common functionality
  3. Extracting a middleware

⏱️ Classes, objects, and methods

🗺️ Legacy code

⏱️ Understanding, testing, debugging, and fixing existing code

  1. Understanding legacy code
  2. Debugging legacy code
  3. Fixing legacy code
  4. Extending legacy code

🪆 Complexity

⏱️ Memory and CPU

  1. Memory consumption
  2. Big-O
  3. "Expensive" Operations
  4. Pre-computing

⏱️ Caches and trade-offs

  1. Trade-offs
  2. Network as a bottleneck
  3. Caching