Class Schedule

 

Mastery learning

Traditional classes are time-based learning. You spend a specific amount of time on a topic and then you move on to the next topic. For example, in 220 you might cover while and for loops in week 5, take a quiz on them, and then move on to ArrayLists in week 6. Suppose you got a 75% on that quiz in week 5. That means that you did not learn 25% of the material.  In week 10 y21 Octoberou take a test on inheritance and get an 80% (you did not master 20% of the material). These gaps in your mastery start adding up, and eventually, in some future class you will hit a wall.

In contrast, in Mastery Learning you stay on the topic until you master it. You work at your own pace. The bulk of this class centers on this approach.  You stay on a topic until you master it.  The lectures are a set of videos (mostly screencasts) that you can watch at anytime.

Some class elements  are traditional time-based ones and they are indicated on the schedule below.

Actual scheduled events are listed in bold.

Suggested schedule of videos is indicated  in blue links.

Suggested dates to finish projects is indicated in brown.

General topics to be working on are indicated in gray.

Week 1

 

• 13 January intro to course
  • Intro to the course (slides)
  • Intro to Databases (slides)
  • Avatar Submission Form
  • Get your development environment set up (either Windows, Linux, or Mac laptop)
  • Inquiryum Fundamentals Course – Intro Video
    • Intro  (15:54)
    • MVC (20:07)
    • RESTful (13:15)
  • Inquiryum Fundamentals Course – SQL module
    • Introduction (11:47)
    • Postgres Getting Started (31:37)
    • First Normal Form (27:22)
    • Querying a Database (31:34)
• 15 January RAT 0 Intro Videos

Week 2

 

• 20 January – Martin Luther King Day
• 22 January
  • Announcements
    • if you haven’t done so already, please submit your avatar name
    • also get a Slack account and sign up for the checkin channel
    • Don’t forget the Howdy checkin
  • RAT 1. SQL Module

 

Week 3

• 27 January – Lightning Round 0 (lightning round prep)
  • Worksheet
  • World SQL file
• Inquiryum Fundamentals Course – SQL Module
  • Querying a DB Part 2 (32:00)
  • Update Delete Alter (19:07)
• Inquiryum Fundamentals Course – Node.js Module
  • Introduction to Javascript  (35:01)
  • Asynchronous Programming (33:41)
• Start learning Next.js and React on your own

Week 4

• 3 February RAT 2 
• Inquiryum Fundamentals Course – Node.js Module
  • Basic Node.js Server (31:45)
  • Postman (42:29)
  • Postgres and Node.js (1:05:22)
• Rudiment: Workshop Server 1a

Week 5

• 10 February – Lightning Round 1
  • World SQL file (drop your old world db)
  • umw.sql
  • tomatoes2p.sql
• Introduction to Git 33:59
• Git addendum 16:57
• Cloud Services 9:15
• Getting Started With Google Cloud  11:00
• Running NodeJS Apps on Google Cloud  11:04
• A NodeJS Production Environment   11:48
• Rudiment: Workshop Server 1b 

Week 6

• Rudiment – Server 2
  • Rudiment – Server 2
• 19 February RAT 3 
• Normal Form SQL   21:17
• More on Normalization  35:07
• Rudiment – NextJS app

Week 7

• 24 February
• Hashing Passwords – 19:21
• Bcrypt – 20:22

Week 8

• 2 March – Spring Break

Week 9

• 9 March
• Inquiryum.com – Next.js module
• Rudiment  NextJS App
• inquiryum.com – complete web app
• Rudiment – Complete Web App
• 11 March
• TBD

Week 10

• 16 March – RAT 4
• Inquiryum – Sessions (forthcoming)
• Rudiment – Super Search
  

Week 11

• 23 March
• Rudiment – TBD

Week 12

• 30 March
• Rudiment – TBD

Week 13

• Rudiment – TBD
• 6 April

Week 14

• 13 April
• 15 April – no class

Week 15

• 20 April