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 1
Coding Reintroduction
Week 2
Automatic Testing
Week 3
Object Orientation
Week 4
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Introduction to the course
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Setting up the required software (Python, Git and VS Code)
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Idiomatic Python Overview
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How to use Git.
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Exercise: Using Git and Python
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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
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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
There is no new course content this week.
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1-on-1 meeting with a mentor
Reading Week
Week 5
How to use an API
Week 6
Web Servers
Week 7
Combining Skills
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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
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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
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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