Software

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Developer Essentials

For the first two weeks, you’ll use a range of resources including videos, blogs and practical exercises to explore HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and start building your own interactive web pages.

This part of the course is self-directed but don’t worry, you’ll still be able to check in with your trainer and classmates for support.

It’s time to dive into the real-time sessions with one of our experienced trainers. You’ll expand on the skills from the first two weeks, begin building more complex layouts and make the transition from web pages to web applications.

We’ll also look at tools such as Bash and Git so you can start coding to industry standard best practices.

It’s time for your first project week. You’ll build your own personal portfolio website ready to fill with the work you complete throughout the course and beyond.

Your portfolio is the perfect way to say “Hello, World!”, showcasing your skills and personality to potential employers as you continue your journey as a software engineer.

There’s more to modern applications than just HTML and CSS so this week we’ll take a deeper look at front-end technologies. You’ll explore CSS preprocessors, modern JavaScript methodologies, and start learning React, a JavaScript framework.

For your second project, you’ll be working as a team as you experience building a scalable, maintainable React application using a range of modern libraries and use a backend API to send and receive data.

In the words of Bon Jovi (sort of): “Woah, you’re half way there!” It’s the midpoint of the course and time to switch from learning front-end to back-end (or server side) development.

You’ll be introduced to PHP, server side development concepts and set up a local Docker environment.

This week you’ll build on your back-end knowledge as we introduce databases. We’ll explore storing and retrieving information from MySQL databases using SQL, and discuss complex data structures along with related cyber security concerns.

It’s time for another project: building your first API. Using PHP and MySQL you’ll create a JSON API that interacts with a React front-end.

By now, you’ll be ready to take on some more advanced topics like object-oriented programming and design patterns. We’ll also explore application architectures and the SOLID principles.

This week we take things to the next level with PHP frameworks. You’ll learn the principles, patterns and skills to pick up any modern framework with ease. We’ll cover MVC, autowiring, factories, Dependency Injection Containers and much more.

In the last week of the course you’ll be just a few days from graduating as a fully fledged software developer. But not before you undertake one more practical assignment. This is your chance to really flex your coding muscles, utilising everything you’ve learned to complete your final showcase project.