Full Stack Java Developer Program-Live Online

Introduction to the Software Development Curriculum

• Describe the activity mapping process that helped shape the curriculum.
• Explain how breakdown moments and value drivers will define my success as in the role.
• Identify the topics and skills I will master by the end of the program.

Introduction to the Software Developer Role

• Explain what software development is.
• Describe the basic roles and responsibilities of a Junior Full-Stack Java Developer.
• List the qualities of a successful Junior Full-Stack Java Developer.
• Describe the common challenges of the role and the strategies that you will use to cope with and overcome those challenges.

Staying up to Date

• Explain the importance of staying up-to-date and continually learning as a Java developer.
• Identify various methods and resources to continue learning and building new skills.
• Identify three skills related to MERN/Javascript development to learn and/or improve after completing the Generation program.

Problem Solving

• Identify the importance of accurately problem solving solutions to software development challenges.
• Describe the steps to problem solve a software development challenge.

Module Assessment

• Students take a multiple choice assessment to demonstrate knowledge of concepts learnt after ROLE + PROG sessions.

Welcome To Codecademy and Code Foundations

• Demonstrate how to use Codecademy
• Animate your name
• Identify Code Foundations.
• Write your first lines of code.
• Use the essential programming concepts of variables, operators, and data types.
• Use the essential programming concepts of functions and control flow.
• Use the essential programming concepts of lists and loops.
• Explain key Computer Science concepts and their connection to the industry’s development.
• Indicate why software development is one of the most important skills of the 21st century.

Learn the Command Line

• Reproduce your first Command on the Command Line.
• Use FileSystem navigation commands.
• Use the command line to direct the input and output of a command to and from other files and programs.
• Compose chains of commands together in a pipeline.
• Set up the environment using the command line.
• Manage automation of common tasks using bash scripting.

Learn Git

• Explain Git and its core features.
• Apply different ways to undo changes made to a Git project.
• Describe when to use them.
• Create multiple versions of a project with branching.
• Demonstrate Git collaborations with remotes, pulling and pushing.

Learn GitHub

• Explain GitHub and its use.
• Create and use a repository.
• Start and manage a new branch.
• Collaborate with others on GitHub.
• Make changes to a file and push them to GitHub as commits.
• Open and merge a pull request.

Learn SCRUM

• Define the Agile software development principles.
• Identify the benefits of the Agile approach for software development.
• Describe the different parts of the Scrum methodology to manage software development.
• Demonstrate how to apply the parts of the Scrum methodology on a simulation.

Module Assessment

• Students take a multiple choice assessment to demonstrate knowledge of concepts learnt during the ROLE + PROG sessions.

Learn HTML

• Explain HTML elements.
• Describe the structure of an HTML page.
• Create tables in your HTML documents.
• Create forms.
• Integrate HTML5 validations.
• Write accessible HTML using Semantic HTML tags

Learn CSS

• Explain what CSS is and how to use it to style pages.
• Style individual and groups of elements using various visual CSS rules.
• Explain how to use the Box Model to position HTML elements.
• Demonstrate how to display and position elements on your web page.
• Change CSS colors using a variety of techniques.
• Style font through CSS typography.
• Lay-out and position elements on web pages using the CSS Grid concept.
• Implement CSS animation using transitions.

Learn Bootstrap

• Explain the core concept of Bootstrap.
• Layout and style your website using Bootstrap 4.
• Style and populate your website using Bootstrap’s utility classes and components.

Learn to Build Websites in Your Own Computer

• Set up the text editor
• Use Chrome Devtools
• Practice HTML and CSS skills with an off-platform website project!
• Use responsive design techniques, like relative sizing units and media queries, to create websites viewable on devices of all sizes.
• Explain how to ensure that your website is accessible and usable to everyone.
• Describe how to look up things that you don’t know in official documentation so that you can solve problems independently.
• Publish website content to the Internet.
• Use Jekyll to get new static sites quickly up and running.
• Use the GitHub workflow to host your site using the GitHub Pages service.

Module Assessment

• Students design and create a responsive landing page from scratch.

Introduction to Javascript: Basic Data Types + Operators + Conditionals

• Describe the JavaScript programming language and its characteristics.
• Describe and use JavaScript data types, built-in methods, and variables.
• Use if, else if, else, switch, and ternary syntax to control the flow of a program in JavaScript.

Javascript Functions, Scoping, and Program Flow

• Describe JavaScript’s function syntax.
• Practice passing data to functions.
• Use the return keyword, ES6 arrow functions, and concise body syntax.
• Classify global and block level scope in JavaScript.
• Practice scoping when declaring variables.
• Describe the arrays data structure in JavaScript.
• Use arrays methods and properties.
• Use for and while loops to execute blocks of code multiple times.
• Use iterator methods to simplify the process of looping over arrays.

Object Oriented Framing

• Describe the JavaScript ES6 object syntax.
• Store data and functions inside JavaScript objects.
• Use the ‘this’ keyword.
• Convey privacy in JavaScript methods.
• Define getters and setters in objects.
• Create factory functions.
• Use destructuring techniques.
• Create classes in JavaScript.
• Use inheritance to minimize redundancy in your code.
• Explain browser compatibility for JavaScript.
• Transpile JavaScript ES6 code to ES5.
• Identify modules in JavaScript.
• Use modules to reuse code.

Asynchronous Javascript and Requests

• Explain what is asynchronous JavaScript.
• Write asynchronous JavaScript using native promises.
• Use ES8 syntax for writing asynchronous functions that read like synchronous code.
• Explain how your web browser communicates with the internet.
• Explain the benefits of asynchronous JavaScript properties.
• Create calls to various APIs using different techniques.

Building Interactive JavaScript Websites with DOM Manipulation

• Explain what is the Document Object Model.
• Describe how JavaScript interacts with the DOM.
• Practice manipulating the DOM with JavaScript.
• Use JavaScript events in the browser to create web page interactivity.

Javascript Unit Testing using Mocha

• Explain the benefits of software testing.
• Identify the terminology to explain them.
• Use the Mocha framework and the Node.js assert library to write, automate, and organize tests in Javascript.
• Explain Test-Driven Development.
• Practice test-driven development to create a JavaScript testing suite using Mocha.js.

Module Assessment

• Build a basic web application

Hello World and Variables

• Explain what SQL is and why it is used.
• Create a table using SQL.
• Use essential query keywords.
• Use functions to perform data operations.
• Use join and combine to manipulate data in more then one table.

Object Oriented Java

• Explain how to write a simple Hello, World program using Java.
• Explain data types.
• Manipulate variables.

Using Classes, Conditionals and Control Flow

• Explain what Object Oriented Programming is.
• Explain syntax for defining classes and creating instances.
• Compare different methods of writing conditionals and control flow.
• Solve problems using conditionals

Arrays, Arraylists, Loops,and Strings

• Explain the main characteristics of a commonly used data structure: Array
• Define and use the Java Array implementation ArrayList.
• Build lists of data with Java arrays and ArrayLists.
• Use loops to iterate through lists and repeat code.
• Perform operations on strings and manipulate string data.

Inheritance and Polymorphism

• Define Inheritance and Polymorphism.
• Identify patterns in inheritance and polymorphism.
• Write code using inheritance.
• Write code using polymorphism.

Debugging

• List the three categories of bugs found in Java.
• Classify the type of bugs found in the code.
• Use techniques to debug code in Java.

Java Unit Testing with JUnit

• Define JUnit
• Prepare the computer to use JUnit
• Explain how to create a simple test in JUnit
• Explain TextFixtures
• Explain Assertions
• Explain Matchers
• Use JUnit to run automated tests

Module Assessment

• Solve challenges related to querying, aggregating and joining data using SQL.

Introduction to Web Development using Java and Spring Boot

• Define Spring Boot.
• Describe the build management tools.
• Explain dependency management.
• Use the Gradle task from the terminal.
• Explain the Spring Boot project structure.
• Create your first Spring Boot Application.
• Complete the Quick Start Guide: Spring Quickstart Guide

Dependencies Injection using Spring Framework

• Use the Spring Boot Framework to create web-based Java projects.
• Add dependencies to the Spring Boot project using Gradle.
• Define Services in the Spring Boot Project.
• Explain Dependencies Injections and its impact on architecture.
• Inject Services using @Service and @Autowired annotations.
• Apply dependency injections to a Java Spring Boot project.

Spring Data JPA

• Explain the difference between the logic layer and the persistence layer of web applications.
• Add dependencies of external libraries to Spring Boot projects.
• Connect a Spring Boot project with a MySQL database using Java Persistence API.
• Use Services to encapsulate Database connection logic.
• Configure the Dependencies Injection of the Database Connection Service.
• Run basic queries using spring data JPA to retrieve data from the Database.

REST API with Spring Boot

• Explain Rest APIs
• Use Rest Controllers with Spring Boot
• Explain and define Data Transfer Objects (DTO) to represent the data objects sent or received by the Rest Controllers
• Inject services into the controllers to access the data layer with a decoupled architecture
• Use the @RestController annotation to define a controller in Spring Boot
• Use @GetMapping annotation to handle GET request inside the REST controller
• Use @PostMapping annotation to handle POST request inside the REST controller
• Use @PathVariable annotation to define url variables for endpoints
• Use @RequestBody to define DTOs sent in the request body

Secure API using JWT

• Explain JSON Web Token.
• Use JSON Web Token to secure a REST API.
• Add JWT dependency to gradle file.
• Configure projects using a request interceptor to verify for JWT.

Unit Testing Web Components

• • Explain the Mockito framework and how it’s used to write Unit Tests.
  • Write JUnit tests.

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• Run unit tests using gradle and analyze the results.

Web Applications Build & Deploy

• Explain Docker.
• Explain containers.
• Define a Docker file to put an application into a container.
• Build and deploy code to a web hosted environment.
• Deploy an application container to a cloud infrastructure.

Module Assessment

• Build a full stack application using Java.
• Complete a Spring project.
• Build a feature that works well with testing

Learn React

• Explain what JSX is.
• Use React.js.
• Create React Components.
• Make React components interact with one another.
• Apply hook actions to specific moments in a component’s life.
• Use Hooks.
• Apply React programming patterns for mixing components with and without state.
• Summarize how to use React forms, styles and more advanced topics.

Learn SQL

• Explain what SQL is and why it is used.
• Create a table using SQL.
• Use essential query keywords.
• Use functions to perform data operations.
• Use join and combine to manipulate data in more then one table.

Module Assessment

• Solve challenges related to querying, aggregating and joining data using SQL.