Our teachers are top data scientists and engineers who have experience at companies like Uber, Facebook, etc. They use their knowledge to guide your children through real-world problems, curating, and personalizing the material per child. We offer a high-touch, high-quality experience that you don't get from your typical online courses.
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Your child deserves to work on concrete problems, actually applying the theory they've learned from classes and textbooks. Our industry professionals serve as a guide, knowing when to help them along or let them continue grinding.
About
There are many traditional programming classes on the market today, structured as "follow along" tutorials. While theory lays the foundation, without application, it serves no purpose. Our experience-based curriculum is crafted to focus on the practical, while providing targeted theory material as needed. We look to build broadly applicable skills that your child can use in any field.
How
Students will work to iteratively deliver and ship a keystone project. Not only will your child learn how to code, conduct independent research, learn best practices, but also gain the metacognition to succeed in any environment. The instructors will provide any assistance necessary, but more importantly, they'll ensure your child is building a systematic approach to solving problems.
Goals
Web Development Course
The web development course will be a project-based course where students own delivering a working application end-to-end (backend, frontend, and deployment). There will be a set of weekly goals, as well as overflow goals for the more advanced students. The final weeks will have some required work such as deployments, but there will also be time for students to pursue their interests more deeply.
The course will be tied to a specific project, but the skills and knowledge that the students gain will be generalized for a variety of problems. All elective work which the student chooses not to complete during the program will be available for them as future self-study material. Our hope is that students use this is a starting point to develop their own applications, building their programming skills outside of the classroom.
Cost: $1500
Example Curriculum:
Prep work (1-2 weeks):
Java fundamentals, Command Line Tools, Unix, Git, Debugging, etc
Week 1-3:
Github/Git Fundamentals, IDE setup, Maven, Dropwizard, NoSQL vs SQL, RFCs, etc
Week 4-7:
Frontend development, CRUD, API Design, Documentation, Database Seeding, Unit & Integration Testing
Week 8-9 (electives):
Deployments, Monitoring, Alerting, Logging, Adv Backend/Frontend development
Coding the backend and frontend components for an application is very different from and probably more applicable and useful than anything we did in AP Computer Science in school. For anyone who wants to learn what coding in the real world looks like, this is a great experience.
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