The Warriors Code

Session: ~1 hour

1. Sessions should be goal/project driven
2. Limited lecture time ( <= 10-20 minutes in a given session)
   • Development best practices intertwined with Sessions
     • Limit bad habits that have to be unlearned

Teams: Groups of between 2-4 (Pair/Mob Programming)

1. Regularly change who's "driving" (10-15 minute intervals)

Curriculum - First Draft

1. Intro to Linux/Unix Command-line use
2. Source Control (aka Git)
3. Python Basics
4. Javascript and The Web
5. Services and Databases
6. Object Oriented Design
7. Functional Programming

Navigating a Unix-like environment (1-2 Sessions)

1. Directories
   • Listing/Navigating
   • Creating
   • Moving
   • Copying
   • Removing
   • Permissions
2. Files
   • Same as above ^^^
   • Extensions
   • Executing scripts
     • Without parameters
     • With parameters

Source Control (aka Git)

1. What is source control?
2. Why is it important?
3. Github (The social media of source control)

Python Basics

1. Python command line - Intro to Conditional statements (if/else) - Intro to Loops (for/while) - Variables and data types - Encapsulating Logic (aka Functions 101)
2. Python scripting
   • Hello World
   • Running scripts
   • Writing Tests
   • Importing libraries
   • Reading and writing data to Files
   • Making Http requests
   • Working with other people's code
     • Learning from other people's code

Javascript and the Web

1. How do web pages work?
   • HTML
     • What is it?
     • Overview of basic tags
   • CSS
     • What are CSS for?
     • Manipulate HTML
   • Javascript
     • Javascript logical structures (aka Python => Javascript)

Services and Databases

1. What are Services?
   • Http (Messages over the wire)
2. Nodejs (Javascript on the backend)
   • Hello Koa!
   • npm (Kinda like pip, but more...)
3. Databases
   • What are they?
   • Why do we persist/store data?
   • Relational (SQL - Structured Query Language)
   • NoSQL (Everything else)
     • Specifically MongoDb
4. Let's make a service!