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Syllabus

Goals & Objectives​

What you'll get out of it​

  • Certificate of completion
  • Establish a portfolio with demonstrable examples
  • Gain exposure to a number of relevant technologies
  • Know how to deploy production-ready software

Learning Outcomes​

The goal of this course is to ensure that graduates develop applied experience in the following areas:

  • Software engineering in a team environment
  • Software systems design
  • Cloud technlogies
  • DevOps (e.g. CI/CD, IaC, System monitoring, etc.)
  • Agile methodologies

Reading Material​

We don't require any books for this bootcamp. Most of the reading content will be in the form of publicly available internet articles. However, for some deeper content, we recommend and O'Reilly Learning subscription which will give you access to hundreds of books and videos.

  • O'Reilly Learning, You can sign up here for $129.00 for 3 months.

Our resources pages will list specific books that may be useful, most of which are available from O'Reilly.

Schedule​

WeekTopics
1
  • Welcome
  • Selecting a programming language
2
  • Collaboration in software engineering
  • Version control with Git
3
  • Web technologies
  • APIs
  • Docker
4
  • Database deep dive
  • SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Special purpose databases (e.g. graph, time series, etc.)
  • Other storage and indexing topics (e.g. caches, search, etc.)
5
  • Project team formation
  • Team dynamics
  • Introduction to cloud topics
6
  • Front-end development with React
  • UI/UX - HTML / CSS
7
  • Cloud serverless topics
  • Introduction to serverless applications
8
  • DevOps Introduction
  • Continous Integration / Continous Delivery (CI/CD)
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Terraform and other approaches
  • System monitoring
9
  • Application security and the OWASP Top 10
  • Case studies
10
  • Special topics
11
  • Career Development
12
  • Final project review and discussion
  • Bootcamp retrospective