CUNY Tech Prep 2021-2022

CUNY Tech Prep is a NYC Tech Talent Pipeline program designed to provide exceptional Computer Science students in the CUNY senior college system with in-demand software development and professional skills.

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Fall 2021 Web Dev Track
Class Schedule and Materials

Summer Homework

Students that participated in the summer-prep sessions and submitted the required work are exempt from parts B & C of this homework. All other students have to complete parts A, B, & C

Summer Homework

(8/31 - 9/3) Week 1

Lecture Slides

Bootstrap Lab

Topics:

• Semester Overview
• Designing Web Apps
• Review: HTML & CSS
• Intro to Bootstrap

Assignments:

• Setup your Development Environment
  • Due ASAP (nothing to submit)
• Project Ideation: provide your idea in the ideation document
  • If you did not finish this in class finish it before Week 2
• Meet your classmates and form teams
  • Read through your classmates ideas and contact them over slack
  • Formed teams due in Week 3 class
• Make a Professional Portfolio Website
  • Due in Week 5 class

(9/7 - 9/10) NO CLASS

(9/14 - 9/17) Week 2

If you can't attend Wed 9/15 or Thur 9/16 class, contact your instructor to be excused.

Lecture Slides

Learn React 1: Step by Step

Topics:

• React Intro

Assignments:

• Team Project Proposals (Due before week 3 class)
  • Form a team of 3 students and submit a Team Project Propsal.
  • Team Project Proposal guidelines
  • Submit Here

(9/21 - 9/24) Week 3

Lecture Slides: URL's and HTTP Request-Response

Lecture Slides: fetch() and React

Zip Code React Lab

Topics:

• Client-Server Communication
  • Parts of a URL
  • Understanding HTTP Request-Response
• fetch(...) and Promises
• More React

(9/28 - 10/1) Week 4

Topics:

• More fetch() and React

(10/5 - 10/8) Week 5

Lecture Slides

Topics:

• Fullstack Review: Frontend vs Backend
• About npm
• Building a backend with Express.js
  • Routing
  • Route Parameters
  • Query Parameters
  • Body Parameters
• RESTful Routing

(10/12 - 10/15) Week 6

Lecture Slides

Zip Code API Lab

Topics:

• SDLC
• MVC (Models-Views-Controllers) Project Structure
• Databases and Data Modeling
• ORM's (Sequelize.js)

(10/19 - 10/22) Week 7

Project Starter repository

Topics:

• Using MVC app structure
• Project Starter setup and walkthrough

Assignments:

• First Project Presentation
  • During Week 9 class (11/2 - 11/5)
  • Presentation Guidelines
    • 8 minutes per team (5 min presentation, 3 min Q&A)
    • All team members must present at least one slide
    • See a presentation template here: first_project_presentation_template.pdf
    • (Optional) Show a demo of work in progress if you can

(10/26 - 10/29) Week 8

Learn Sequelize Lab

Topics:

• Using Sequelize.js
• Testing (Jest)

(11/2 - 11/5) Week 9

Topics:

• Project Presentations
• Implementing Authentication
• Sessions
• Passport.js, Bcrypt

(11/9 - 11/12) Week 10

Code Reviews Slides

Topics:

• Code Reviews
• Software Engineering Best Practices
• Resource link

(11/16 - 11/19) Week 11

Adding Local Authentication Slides

Project Starter: local authentication branch

Topics:

• Deploying to Heroku
• Lab Time: Work on Projects

(11/23 - 11/26) NO CLASS

Thanksgiving Break / Spring Break

(11/30 - 12/3) Week 12

Topics:

• Lab Time: Work on Projects

(12/7 - 12/10) Week 13

Topics:

• Practice Demo Night Pitches and Demos
• Lab Time: Work on Projects

(12/14) DEMO NIGHT

Demo Night

• Location: Online
• Time: December 14, 2021 -- 5:30pm-7pm_