Curriculum

Online courses we will be following

• Udacity’s Intro to Computer Science
• Udacity’s Web Development

We will also be using a variety of other materials.

Languages we will be learning

• Python
• JavaScript

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Use the Python programming language to write server-side code
• Access a remote server to develop and test an application
• Deploy and host a web application on Google AppEngine
• Use GitHub as a source repository
• Understand the basics of HTTP
• Understand the basics of HTML and CSS for web-page layout
• Use Javascript and jQuery to write client-side code
• Construct web forms for collecting user data
• Use a database to store, update and retrieve data collected via a web form
• Manage user registration and authentication using cookies, usernames and passwords
• Understand the basics of cryptography and hashing for protecting user data
• Understand about scaling and caching using memcached
• Create and use APIs, publish and parse XML and JSON
• Integrate services into an AppEngine application using Google’s Python APIs
• Integrate external services into a webpage
• Create mashups of data from disparate sources and display them on a web page
• Analyse and publish data collected from third-party sources
• Use a front-end framework to build a responsive one-page website
• Work as part of a project team, pair program and participate in code reviews

We will also be introducing some other advanced topics, which may include the following:

• An introduction to Django
• An introduction to node.js
• Comparison of different programming paradigms