Module 4 Learning Goals

Skill Proficiencies

Academic success in B4 means that students demonstrate proficiency and comfort with the concepts below. The expected mastery level can be understood with the following scale:

• Mastery: Student is able to explain and implement the concept independently or with light reference
• Functional: Student recognizes when to use the concept and can implement it with the support of documentation and/or a collaborator
• Familiarity: Student can recognize and describe the concept when needed/appropriate, but is not able to implement the technology/technique

Mastery

Project Planning

• Create detailed user stories from project acceptance requirements
• Track project progress using an Agile board

Technical Communication

• Document intent, set-up, and usage of their code for effective collaboration
• Use pull requests to organize and effectively communicate updates and changes to code base
• Explain intent and execution of code

JavaScript Fundamentals

• Apply good development patterns (DRY, SRP, etc.) to JavaScript functions
• Create and use functions with parameters
• Apply and articulate differences between a function expression and a function declaration
• Describe different variable declarations and scoping

GraphQL

• Explain GraphQL and REST API standards

Functional

Technical Communication

• Formulate questions by synthesizing what was expected versus what was observed
• Apply feedback from a code review to improve quality

JavaScript

• Write unit tests for JavaScript
• Organize functions into classes and objects

JavaScript Tools & Libraries

• Implement a stand-alone web service with Node and Express
• Use the Node Package Manager to manage dependencies

GraphQL

• Implement a Node and GraphQL API server

Technical Skills

• Coordinate data and events across applications
• Build applications that execute in multiple environments (development, test, continuous integration, and production)

Familiarity

JavaScript Fundamentals

• Translate between JavaScript written in ES5 and ES6

JavaScript in the Browser

• Read form content and manipulate DOM via JavaScript
• Integrate outside data sources in the browser (Fetch)
• Utilize event listeners to attach code to even-element combinations including document-ready and element-click