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A practical web development course teaching Node.js, MongoDB, and other modern technologies

Home Page: http://olinjs.github.io/

JavaScript 91.75% CSS 2.07% HTML 6.18%

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Olin.js

Course Description

Olin.js is a project oriented approach to learning modern web application development. With server and client technology advancing so rapidly, the modern website looks very different from that of even a few years ago, and the web will only become a bigger part of our lives in the near future. Olin.js will quickly familiarize students with Node.js as a web server framework and ES5 JavaScript as a responsive client-side language with three weeks of introductory instruction and four weeks of partner labs.

Along the way, students will learn the basic layout of the web, how to deploy and maintain large applications, important development strategies, skills, and technologies, and how to design and manage complex, multi-developer software projects. Students will spend the last six weeks of the course putting their knowledge and skills to the test by designing and developing their own web applications.

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If you stumbled across this repository and feel like learning some web development, please follow along with us! This repository contains all of the lesson material and assignments to get you going. Feel free to submit a Github issue if you find any problems in the course and we'll do our best to fix it up.

Course Contents

Learning Objectives

Understand the modern internet and web applications
Learn software design skills and strategies, such as Javascript, Node and database technologies, that are relevant to web infrastructure
Find connections between current coursework with future professional applications
Learn software industry-related processes with a focuses on things, such as working on a team and communication of code and software projects
Balance scope and design decisions to complete a viable web application

Course Syllabus

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olinjs's Issues

Unclear instruction in homework 3

Enough people misunderstood where ":" is and is not used in route param /cats/bycolor/:color in the homework 3 assignment that it might warrant a retroactive fix for clarity.

Add cookie clicker to class 4

This was an awesome in-class example that should go in the Readme for posterity.

Class READMEs have inconsistent formatting

The organization of content, resources, assignments, etc. is inconsistent across classes.

Class 1 homework needs survey link

Class 1 homework should include a link to a survey (which adds its results to a new tab in the homework google doc) asking standard homework questions. See: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1B6YfgxeIQ-QIYIsyb_1IkE7uGLvinXXH4EfO2S0cZyY/viewform

Also, the homework should assign https://github.com/sethvincent/javascripting as well.

Class 9 - Refactoring Description

Its probably worth adding a bit more about refactoring code in terms of how functions/objects/classes interact. The current description makes it sound like its mostly just what files and modules code chunks are placed in.

All the README's formatting is broken :/

Looks like github changed its markdown parser because none of the headers seem to render correctly anymore

Flex day

Make links to external resources / tutorials for each topic we cover

Links on the main README are broken

The link to lesson 2 leads to a broken link

Configuration and Useful Settings: Grammar Error

Add apostraphe in "First, were going to install 3" found here

Explain single page apps and why frameworks support them

Class 10 needs more description on why to use frameworks, what they are useful for, etc.

Add in-class exercise to class on Agile

This might be fun to break up the lecture. Something comparing the waterfall method to agile.

We ask the class to split into teams, have them design some software-related thing. Simulate changing user requirements, etc. and see how teams with different styles react differently. Not sure what form this would take yet.

Add SSL/TLS stuff to security class

Spelling

I don't actually know how to submit issues, so this is more of a learning experience than anything else.
There's a spelling mistake in the homework:
https://github.com/olinjs/olinjs/blob/master/classes/class4/homework.md

The other method of putting objects within other objects is called referecing.

Synthesize feedback and reflection

We need to work through our reflections and student feedback and determine the ways in which we can improve the past lessons and assignments to better serve future course offerings and online students.

Class Folder names are not descriptive

classes subfolder list looks like

class01
class02
class03
class04

which makes it difficult to navigate from within that folder.

Revamp the main readme

We should re-order the main readme as well as introduce the course a bit better to people who may not be Olin students. For example, describe a possible route for going through the course at your own pace.

improve readme

Twoter: Boilerplate?