Software Engineering Bootcamp

Software Engineering Fundamentals

This course teaches the fundamentals of front-end web development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You’ll learn to create user interfaces, write clean code, and solve logic problems. Explore core programming concepts, data structures, and developer tools like GitHub. The final project lets you apply these skills to solve a business problem. By the end, you’ll have the foundational skills needed for front-end development and programming problem-solving.

What you’ll learn:

• Utilize foundational logic problem solving methodologies to develop solutions for business problems like a software engineer
• Identify technical solutions with Javascript to solve a business problem
• Apply the appropriate logical and technical solution with Javascript to solve a business problem

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Front-End Development: Javascript Fundamentals

This course is a step toward mastering frontend development, offering a deep understanding of JavaScript, essential for web development. You’ll learn modern JavaScript syntax, including asynchronous programming, and explore topics like data structures, functions, and testing. The course ends with a CLI application project, honing your skills in user-focused design and implementation. By the end, you’ll be equipped to confidently tackle frontend development challenges.

What you’ll learn:

• Utilize foundational methodologies of programmatic thinking to develop an interactive web page
• Apply fundamental programming techniques with javascript command line interface (CLI) to web development

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Front-End Development: Javascript Interactions

This course immerses you in frontend development, teaching you to create interactive web pages using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You’ll master key concepts like asynchronous programming, DOM manipulation, and client-server communication, and develop the skills to build responsive user interfaces. The course concludes with a project where you’ll integrate functionality and design into an interactive web page. By the end, you’ll be equipped to solve business problems using industry-standard frontend practices.

What you’ll learn:

• Utilize foundational methodologies of programmatic thinking to develop an interactive web page.
• Apply fundamental programming techniques with javascript to web development.
• Execute a programming process to develop an interactive web page

Front-End Development: React 1

In this course, you’ll learn React, a popular front-end library, and how to integrate it with JavaScript to develop key app components. The course concludes with a project where you’ll build application components using React based on a provided mock-up.

What you’ll learn:

• Apply a programmatic thinking process for front-end development
• Create components for an app using industry standard design practices
• Integrate industry standard techniques for front-end development

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Front-End Development: React 2

This course advances your React skills, focusing on integrating more complex components to build robust, interactive front-end applications. It concludes with a project where you’ll create a full interactive app based on a provided mock-up.

What you’ll learn:

• Apply a programmatic thinking process for front-end development
• Create components for an app using industry standard design practices
• Integrate industry standard techniques for a full interactive application

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Introduction to Python

This introductory Python course equips you with essential software engineering skills. You’ll learn fundamental programming concepts, including scripting, operators, loops, data structures, libraries, and functions. The course concludes with a project where you’ll develop a Python script to analyze data. By the end, you’ll be prepared to write efficient code and tackle real-world software engineering challenges.

What you’ll learn:

• Apply a programmatic thinking process for front-end development
• Create components for an app using industry standard design practices
• Integrate industry standard techniques for a full interactive application

Object Oriented Programming with Python

This course introduces essential Python programming concepts for backend development, focusing on object modeling and complex relationships like one-to-many and many-to-many, commonly used in databases. It concludes with a project to create a CLI application demonstrating these relationships.

What you’ll learn:

• Apply a programmatic thinking process for back-end development
• Create components for a backend database interactions using industry standard design practices
• Integrate industry standard techniques for a databases

‍API Development with Python

In this course, you’ll learn to use a Python library/framework to build dynamic REST APIs, focusing on data exchange, validation, and client-server communication. The course concludes with a project to create a REST API and a basic React client.

What you’ll learn:

• Apply a programmatic thinking process for back-end development
• Create components for an API using industry standard design practices
• Integrate industry standard techniques for an API

‍Relational Databases

In this course, you’ll learn SQL and Flask-SQLAlchemy to build robust APIs that interact with relational databases. You’ll master data manipulation and complex model relationships, culminating in a project where you create an API that seamlessly connects to a relational database and handles intricate data structures.

What you’ll learn:

• Query relational databases using DDL, DML, and DQL.
• Model relational data with normalization.
• Use an ORM to interact with a relational database.
• Set up constraints and validations to secure the application.

‍Backend Development with Python

This course teaches you to build robust and secure web applications using Flask. You’ll master client-server communication, JWT authentication, and backend development. The course concludes with a project where you’ll create a full-fledged API with user login, authorization, and seamless data flow.

What you’ll learn:

• Manage client-server interactions.
• Create an industry standard auth flow.
• Deploy a full-stack application.

Software Engineering Capstone

In this intensive course, you’ll develop three projects focused on solving business problems. You’ll use your foundational skills to build a full-stack app with a React frontend, Flask backend, and a relational database.

What you’ll do:

• Build a full stack application with industry standard technical components
• Apply programmatic thinking process to full stack development projects
• Integrate a industry standard methodologies to develop a full stack application projects
• Execute programmatic thinking and technical components to develop projects framed around business problems

You’ll receive a certificate of completion upon passing each program. Once you complete all programs — Essentials through Capstone — you’ll be ready to jump head-first into the job search with the help of your dedicated Flatiron School career coach.