Phase 3 Week 1 Videos
Posted on Sep 11th, 2020
FE -- Building React apps
Posted on Sep 10th, 2020
Today, you’ll start on your first React app without a tutorial.
Assignment
Examples
Resources
FE - Intro to React
Posted on Sep 9th, 2020
Today, we’ll start on our journey into React.
Assignment
Complete the official React tutorial. For the section “Setup for the Tutorial,” choose option 2.
This project does not have to be in Git.
Resources
- React docs
- The Beginner’s Guide to React - an alternative tutorial. Good info, but a different approach than the official one.
BE -- Django Models
Posted on Sep 9th, 2020
Today we’ll be focusing on making sure we understand all the capabilities of Django models.
Assignments
By Thursday, you should have much of Question Box done. Your models should be complete, as should be views for viewing questions, creating questions, creating answers, and the user profile.
Resources
- Repo for Recipe Book project
- Django model relationships
- Django model queries
- Video: Building effective Django queries with expressions - DjangoCon 2019 video on queries
- Video: Search from the Ground Up - DjangoCon 2019 video explaining search in detail
FE - Return to JavaScript
Posted on Sep 8th, 2020
Today we’re returning to JavaScript! We’re going to have a refresher before diving into React tomorrow.
Setup
By the end of today, you need to make sure you have the following set up on your machine:
- Node & npm
- create-react-app
- VS Code extension for JSX and Standard.js
- Exercism
Assignments
- Watch ES6 tutorial for beginners
- Practice JavaScript with Exercism:
- Hamming
- Gigasecond
- Grade School
- Scrabble Score