Advanced Course
This course is currently in the process of being refined after our initial pilot run at the start of 2022. We will return in 2023, please get in touch if you wish to be notified when we open admission.
Overview
A course focused on equipping students with the skills to start building more advanced projects. Students can expect to leave the course with a detailed knowledge of how to build projects from the ground up utilising object oriented programming, web servers, automated unit testing and a host of other skills. A base level of python skill is required as well as about 5 hours for each week in order to get the most from the course.
Course Content
Week 0 - Getting Started
This "week" runs before the course start date, soon(ish) all the material for this week will be published here.
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Introduction to the course
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Setting up the required software (Python, Git and VS Code)
Week 1 - Coding Reintroduction
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Idiomatic Python Overview
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How to use Git.
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Exercise: Using Git and Python
Week 2 - Automatic Testing
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Why automating testing is important
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How to automate testsing your code
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Exercise: Testing code
Week 3 - Object Orientation
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What is object orientation and why is it useful?
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How to read and write object orientated code
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Exercise: Building a small game using object orientation
Week 4 - Reading Week
There is no new course content this week.
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1-on-1 meeting with a mentor
Week 5 - How to use an API
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What is an API?
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How to interact with an API
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Exercise: Solve the API puzzle
Week 6 - Web Servers
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How to build your own web server
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Introduction to HTML and CSS
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Exercise: Make your game into a web server
Week 7 - Combining Skills
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Automatic testing in a web server
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How to break problems down and solve them programmatically
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More helpful tools for python
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Final Project
Week 8
There is no new course content this week.
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1-on-1 meeting with a mentor to discuss your final project
