cslunetta / bangazon-inc

Curriculum for the C# web development full-time back-end course.

The Backend

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As you know by now, at NSS we focus on pragmatic, hands-on learning. To that end, we're going to spend most of our time focused on building a powerful, easy-to-use, multi-user blogging platform called Tabloid^TM*.

* Tabloid is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bangazon Inc.

Orientation

We'll spend the first few weeks orienting you to .NET, C#, SQL, and a new set of tools and techniques for building complex applications.

1. Installation of required tools.
2. Introduction to the C# language.
3. Concepts of sustainable, scalable, object-oriented software development.
4. Overview of server-side development ecosystem
5. How the Internet works
6. Inheritance, composition, and aggregation
7. Entity relationships
8. Structured Query Language (SQL)

At the end of orientation, you will build a command line prototype of the Tabloid application.

Web Applications using Server-side Rendering

After orientation's focus on the command line development, we'll turn to web applications using Microsoft's powerful, open source ASP.NET Core framework.

We'll start with building server-side rendered web apps using ASP.NET Core MVC. These applications will generate HTML on the server and send it to the browser.

We'll wrap up this phase of the course by building an MVP of Tabloid.

Full Stack Web Applications

Finally, we'll end the course by learning to build a back-end API using ASP.NET Core Web API. This will give us the opportunity to build a dynamic front-end in React.

In the final group project we'll take two sprints to build Tabloid as a full stack application with a .NET back-end and a React front-end.

Capstone

After we've covered the course material, you'll wrap up your time at NSS by building a capstone project to demonstrate your learning.

Learning Objectives

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Book 1 - Orientation