Tech Talk for Non-Developers

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Tech Talk for Non-Developers Slides

Module 1 - Introduction

Introduction

Module 2 - Basic Terminology

An overview of the most common terms and buzzwords that developers throw around daily.

1 - How Computers Actually Work Part 1

2 - How Computers Actually Work Part 2

3 - Data Types

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4 - IP Address

5 - Source Code

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6 - Where is Code Written

7 - Servers

8 - Client/Server Relationship

9 - Backend and Frontend

10 - HTML, CSS and JavaScript

11 - What is Done on the Backend and Frontend

12 - Linux

13 - Remote Connections

14 - CRUD Operations

15 - Libraries

16 - Frameworks

17 - API

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18 - SDK

19 - JSON

20 - Virtual Machines

21 - MAC Address

Module 3 - Everything Code

An entire module dedicated specifically towards coding fundamentals. A prerequisite to the rest of the course.

1 - Types of Programming Languages

2 - HTML, CSS, DOM

3 - Common Languages, Frameworks, and Tools

4 - What is Node.js?

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5 - What is ES6?

6 - Component Based Architecture

7 - Model View Controller

8 - Vertical & Horizontal Scaling

9 - Single Page Application

10 - Absolute and Relative Paths

11 - Environments

Module 4 - Testing & Quality Assurance

Learn about the different kinds of tests, including: unit testing, integration testing E2E testing, and quality assurance.

1 - Quality Assurance

2 - Unit Testing

3 - Integration Testing & End to End Testing

4 - Test Coverage

5 - Test Driven Development

Module 5 - RESTful APIs

Understand the fundamentals of how user interfaces (like browsers, and mobile devices) interact with servers.

1 - Web Services

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2 - RESTful API

3 - RESTful API Verbiage

4 - Payload and Query Strings

5 - Headers

6 - HTTP Status Codes

7 - How Requests Are Made

8 - Polling

9 - Web Sockets

10 - Microservices vs Monolithic Services

Quick Break

2 Quick Notes

Module 6 - Version Control

Using Git and Github, learn about how developers keep track of different versions of the application they're building.

1 - Using Git

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2 - Using Github

3 - Pushing, Pulling & Cloning

4 - Branching and Merging

5 - Pull Requests

6 - Branch Conventions

7 - Typical Flow - Creating a Feature

8 - Typical Flow - Doing a Release

9 - Typical Flow - Doing a Hotfix

10 - Merge Conflicts

11 - Common Terms Used

12 - Continuous Integration

13 - Semantic Versioning

Module 7 - Databases

Understand where and how all of our application data is stored.

1 - Overview of a Database

2 - Creating a Table

3 - Altering a Table

4 - Inserting Data into a Table

5 - Update and Delete Data

6 - Primary Keys

7 - Indexes

8 - Fixing Our Queries

9 - Reading Data

10 - Foreign Keys

11 - Joining Tables

12 - Database Migrations

13 - Connecting Our Backend & Frontend

14 - Limits and Offsets

15 - Table Relationships

Module 8 - Caching

The best ways to make our application more performant.

1 - Overview of Caching

2 - Too Many Queries

3 - Introducing Redis

4 - Implementing Redis

5 - Caching Issues

6 - Client Side Cache

Module 9 - Deployment

Go through an entire deployment process and the tools involved.

1 - Overview of Deployment

2 - Builds and Bundles

3 - Development vs Production Builds

4 - Deployment Process

5 - Automating the Deployment Process

6 - Containers and Docker

7 - Continuous Deployment & Delivery

Module 10 - Loose Ends

A few things that are important to know, but don't fit in any other module.

1 - Regular Expressions

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2 - Cron Jobs

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3 - Technical Debt

4 - Synchronous and Asynchronous

5 - Race Conditions

6 - Timeouts and Intervals

7 - Exceptions

8 - Content Delivery Network

9 - Serverless

Module 11 - Tying It All Together

A final project where we tie everything that we learned in previous modules into a real world application - without writing code. By the end, you'll have a strong understanding of systems design, and how the application you use regularly are built.

1 - Overview

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2 - Feature List

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3 - Choosing Our Technologies

4 - Environment Setup

5 - Production Server Setup Example 1

6 - Production Server Setup Example 2

7 - QA Setup

8 - Setting Up Our Codebase

9 - Setting Up Our Backend Project

10 - Setting Up Our Frontend Project

11 - Database Design

12 - API Endpoints

13 - User Session Tokens

14 - Bring It All Together Full Circle Part 1

15 - Bring It All Together Full Circle Part 2

16 - Bring It All Together Full Circle Part 3

17 - Homework Assignment

Module 12 - Chrome Developer Tools

This section covers Chrome Developer Tools. It will help you visualize and understand what goes on behind the scenes of your frontend application.

1 - Overview of Chrome Developer Tools

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2 - Device Toolbar

3 - Inspecting HTML Elements

4 - Network Tab

5 - Console Tab

6 - Chrome Profiles

7 - Application Tab

Module 13 - Mobile & Progressive Web Apps

A detailed overview of mobile applications and Progressive Web Applications (PWA).

1 - Mobile App Technologies

2 - Progressive Web Apps - Overview

3 - PWA - Manifest

4 - PWA - Service Worker

Conclusion

Final Thoughts