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columbus-2018-spring

Welcome to this Full Time Java Full Stack Coding Bootcamp running from Jan 16 - April 20.

Curriculum Overview

  • 11 weeks of guided instruction
    • 4 days of guided instruction per week
    • 1 flex day to work on projects and/or pickup lessons
  • 3 weeks of team-based projects
    • Three day sprints (Scrum)
    • Staff acting as scrum masters and product owners

Weekly Breakdown

Week 1

  • The File System
  • Variables, Operators, Expressions, Basic Types
  • Conditionals
  • Strings and Text Processing
    • Regular Expressions*
  • Git and GitHub

Career Services: Intro to Career Services & Interview Bucket List

Week 2

  • Arrays
  • Loops
  • Intro to OOP
  • Building Classes - Methods and Attributes
  • Unit Testing/TDD (Junit)*

Career Services: Elevator Pitch

Week 3

  • Collections Overview (*Iterables/Iterators)
  • Lists
  • Maps
  • Inheritance & Polymorphism
  • Encapsulation

Career Services: Resume Workshop

Week 4

  • Dependency Injection/Spring
  • Test Doubles (Mockito)*
  • Exceptions
  • Build Automation with Gradle*

Career Services: Resume Workshop Continued

Week 5

  • Spring Boot
  • HTML
  • MVC

Career Services: Inbound Marketing Yourself with LinkedIn

Resumes Due (Printed) by 9:30 AM Day of In Class Session

Note: Prepare for Headshots Next Week on Friday

Week 6

  • CSS
  • Bootstrap

Career Services: Informational Interviews

*Start scheduling one-on-one check-ins

Week 7

  • Relational Databases and Design
  • Relational Databases and SQL
  • Java Persistence API (Spring Data)

Career Services: Behavioral Interviews

Week 8

  • JavaScript/jQuery
  • AJAX, JSON, and RESTful APIs
  • Pair Programming (w/ Git/GitHub)

Career Services: Intro to Tech Interviews

Week 9

  • Flex Week

Career Services: Tech Interviews Continued

Week 12-14

  • Final Project
  • Agile/Scrum

Career Services: Individual Mock Interviews

'*' Denotes potential topics

Important Dates

Career Services One-on-One Scheduling

Use the following link to schedule a one-on-one meeting for career assistance: Schedule Meeting

Attendance Policy

Class is from 9:30AM-3:30PM Monday-Friday, with tutoring / study periods Mon-Fri 3:30PM-5:00PM.

You are required to attend a minimum of 90% of class time to be eligible for graduation. Attendance is measured to the minute—arriving late or leaving early will negatively impact your attendance. Please inform an instructor if extenuating circumstances arise.

Grading Policy

In order to pass the course, you must receive a grade of 70% or higher averaged over all the assignments.

Projects

Projects are graded by WCCI staff. Projects are typically worth 100 points. 90 points of each project will be determined by the tasks that are completed, with attempts resulting in partial credit for a given task. The final 10 points of each project are determined by overall code quality, considering code readability, well-named methods and variables, and comments where necessary.

Late and Incomplete Projects

Regarding late and incomplete projects, We Can Code IT’s policy is as follows:

  • For each day after the project is due, the grade will automatically be deducted by 10 percentage points of the maximum possible score.
    • To be clear, a project due at 9:30AM on Monday is considered one day late starting at Monday at 9:31AM.
    • That project is then considered an additional day late starting at 9:31PM on Tuesday, making that project two days late overall.
  • After a project is five days late (using the above example, this would be Friday at 9:31AM), the project is automatically scored at a 0/100 or 0%.
  • If a student knows in advance that she or he will not be able to submit the project by its due date, that student is required to notify the instructors via email as soon as possible.
  • Extensions on project submissions will be given with the Education Team’s discretion in the case of extenuating circumstances.

Unsatisfactory Progress Probationary Period

If a student is failing a portion of the program, the student will be placed on academic probation. In this time period, the student will be put on a remediation plan and is expected to complete and pass any portion of the class in which the student has failed. If the student cannot resolve his or her failing status satisfactorily, he or she may be dismissed from the program. The student may be eligible for a refund based upon our stated refund policies.

Final Projects

Students must be passing the course prior to final projects to be eligible to participate in final projects.

Course Resources

In addition to the required text, this and other We Can Code IT repositories will contain code developed in class, slides, reading material, and links to useful resources. In addition, there is a required book and other books that you may find useful. Students may use print or electronic versions based on preference. This syllabus links directly to the publishers' sites for books, but these are likely available via Amazon and other booksellers.

Required Textbook

Suggested Textbook

Optional Textbooks

Online Resources

General

Java

Spring

JPA

  • Java Persistence book on wikibooks

    There is a PDF version available at the above link which is easier to search/reference.

Git

HTML/CSS/JavaScript