For the entire 16 weeks, we are in session each day between 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, with a 1-hour break expected for lunch. You are expected to be online and available during these hours. If you need to step away for an appointment or because you’re sick, please let Dawn and your instructors know.
Class & Assignments
Daily schedule
Class during Phases 1-2 meets twice a day Monday-Thursday, from 9:30 am to 11:30 am and again from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm. In the interim, please take a lunch break and get started on the assignment for that day.
Lab time continues after class from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm Monday-Thursday and 9:30 am - 5:30 pm on Friday. Friday afternoons are reserved as optional class meeting time, if indicated by your instructor.
Fridays also often include mandatory group meetings for the Campus Huddle/Speaker Series and Career Services Modules. You will receive calendar invitations for these meetings, which are usually scheduled in the 9:30 am -12:00 pm range.
Daily Assignments
Monday through Wednesday, you’ll be given an assignment that you’ll work on during lab time that day. Although our structured day officially ends at 5:30 pm, you will likely find that you need more time that evening to complete the assignment.
Daily assignments are due before the start of class the following morning. Homework submission is through GitHub.
Each day, class will begin with a review of homework from the day before. Come prepared to show your code and ask questions.
Weekend Assignments
On Thursdays, you’ll be given an assignment that will ask you to bring together everything you’ve learned that week. This assignment is expected to be more challeging and take longer to complete than your daily assignments. You can expect to work on this through the weekend.
Weekend assignments are due on Monday morning before the start of class.
Getting in touch with Instructors
Instructors are also available to meet with you on Zoom during lab times, individually, in groups, or in the co-working Zoom.
You can reach out to us on Slack by using an @ symbol followed by our name in the team channel (for instance, “@Amy Gori, when I run git push origin main, I get the following error…”).
Topics by phase
Topics for the first 8 weeks include, but are not limited to, the following. Your instructors may adjust the curriculum to include additional topics.
Phase 1: Front-end development
- Version control with Git and using GitHub
- HTML & CSS
- Responsive web design
- Programming basics and introduction to JavaScript
- Using JavaScript in the browser
- Forms on the web
- Debugging in JavaScript
- JavaScript objects
- AJAX and using APIs
- HTTP requests and methods
Phase 2: Back-end development
- Python basics
- Lists and tuples; dictionaries; functions
- List comprehensions
- Objects, classes and inheritance
- Working with files
- Django basics
- Django models and migrations
- Django views
- Templates & context variables
- Users and authorization
- Forms in Django
- Using JavaScript & AJAX with Django
- Debugging in Django
Phase 3: Advanced Front-end or Advanced Back-end
In this phase, you have a choice to learn more in-depth front-end or back-end topics. If you choose front-end, you’ll be learning to build applications using React, a JavaScript framework. Back-end students will learn to build APIs using Django REST Framework.
You’ll be asked to do more independent work alongside regular classroom meetings with your instructor as you learn to build more complex projects.
The schedule varies and will be announced when the Phase begins. Core hours of 9:30-5:30 still apply.
Phase 4: Agile Development
Students work on small teams to design and build a complete, real-world software product using the practices of professional software developers. You’ll be working independently under the close supervision of your instructor to meet tight deadlines. To graduate, you will present your project to members of the local tech community.
The schedule varies and will be announced when the Phase begins. Core hours of 9:30-5:30 still apply.