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Microverse Software Development Program
SYLLABUS / 2020

Software Development Program
Duration​: 6-8 months
Schedule (Full-time)
MORNING
➔ 8:00 am - 8:45 am​:
➔ 8:45 am - 9:00 am​:
➔ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm​:
Coding Challenges with Stand-up Team
Challenge review with Stand-up Team
Remote Pair Programming with Coding Partner
BREAK
➔ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm​:
Lunch break
AFTERNOON
➔ 1:00 pm - 4:45 pm​:
➔ 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm​:
➔ 5:00 pm - 5:15 pm​:
➔ 5:15 pm - Onwards​:
Remote Pair Programming with Coding Partner
Prep for your stand-up call
Call with Stand-up Team
Optional catch-up and homework time
The program is currently available in two time zones​:
1. Americas: 8 am - 5 pm UTC-6
2. Europe/Africa: 8 am - 5pm UTC+1
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Section: Main Curriculum
COURSE 1: HTML & CSS
Basic HTML
Displaying and
Inputting Data
CSS
Design and UX
Responsive Design and CSS
Frameworks
Advanced CSS
Linking Internal and External Pages
Working with Images, Video, and Other Media
Project #1: Youtube Clone
Tables in HTML
Ordered and Unordered Lists
Forms for Collecting Data
Project #2: Mint.com Clone
CSS Basics
The Box Model
Floats and Positioning
Flexbox
Grid
Project #3: New York Times Clone
Best Practices
Backgrounds and Gradients
Project #4: Apple.com Clone
Introduction to Design and UX
Fonts and Typography
CSS Grids
Project #5: Smashing Magazine Teardown
Responsive Design
Project #6: The Next Web Clone
CSS Frameworks (e.g. Bootstrap and Foundation)
Project #7: Newsweek Clone
Animations, Subtle Effects, and Compatibility
Using CSS Preprocessors to Save Time
Project #8: Grid-Based Framework
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COURSE 2: RUBY
Basic Ruby
Intermediate Ruby
Testing Ruby with RSpec
Databases
Ruby Building Blocks
Project #9: Building Blocks
Advanced Ruby Building Blocks
Project #10: Advanced Building Blocks
Object-Oriented Programming
Project #11: Tic Tac Toe
Test Driven Development
Introduction to RSpec
Project #12: Tic Tac Toe (II)
Databases
Databases and SQL 3
Project #13: SQL
COURSE 3: RUBY ON RAILS
Introduction to Rails
Routes, Views, Controllers,
and Assets
Active Record Basics
Forms and Authentication
Advanced Forms and Active
Record
Project: Getting Your Feet Wet
A Railsy Web Refresher
Deployment
Project #14: Let's Get Building
Routing
Controllers
Views
The Asset Pipeline
Project #15: Basic Routes, Views, and Controllers
Active Record Basics
Project #16: Building With Active Record
Form Basics
Project #17: Forms
Sessions, Cookies, and Authentication
Project #18: Authentication
Active Record Queries
Active Record Associations
Project #19: Associations
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Active Record Callbacks
Advanced Forms
Advanced Topics
Project #20: Build a Social Network
COURSE 4: JAVASCRIPT
Organizing your JavaScript
Code
JavaScript in the Real World
Asynchronous JavaScript and
APIs
Testing JavaScript
JavaScript and Rails
Introduction
Objects and Object Constructors
Project #21: Library
Factory Functions and the Module Pattern
Project #22: Tic Tac Toe
Classes
ES6 Modules
Project #23: Restaurant Page
OOP Principles
Project #24: Todo List
Linting
Dynamic User Interface Interactions
Forms
Webpack 2
ES?
JSON
Async
Working with APIs
Async and Await
Project #25: Weather App
Testing Basics
Project #26: Testing Practice
More Testing
Project #27: Battleship
Using Ruby on Rails For Your Back End
Project #28: Where's Waldo (A Photo Tagging App)
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COURSE 5: REACT & REDUX
Mastering React
Mastering Redux
Intro to JSX
React Components
Working with Props
Stateful Components
Components Lifecycle
Inline Styles
Intro to Server-Side Rendering
Project #29: Calculator
Redux Store
Store Listener
React & Redux
Project #30: Bookstore CMS
Section 2: Algorithm & Data Structures
INTRO TO CODING CHALLENGES
Warm up by solving 20 different coding challenge with your stand-up team.
INTRO TO ALGORITHMS & DATA STRUCTURES
Basic Data Structures
Stack & Queue Challenges
Data Structures
Nodes
Lists
Complete LinkedList
Dynamic Arrays
Stacks
Queues
Min Stack
Sliding Maximum
Balanced Brackets
Transposition
Stacks or Recursion
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Recursion
Trees & Graphs
Trees & Graphs Challenges
Map Sets & Hashes
Basic Recursion
Binary Search
Divide and Conquer
Towers of Hanoi - Part 1
Towers of Hanoi - Part 2
Backtracking Recursion
Trees
Tree Traversal
Binary Search Tree
Graphs
Depth-First Search
Breadth-First Search
How Tall is the Tree?
Is it a Search Tree?
Is it balanced?
Connected Components
Find the Cycles
The Greatest Peaks
Explorer Maze Escape
Sets
Maps
HashTables
HashSet Data Structure
HashMap Data Structure
More Practice
Sorting Algorithms Insertion Sort 1
Insertion Sort Itself
Correctness and the Loop Invariant
Running Time
Counting Sort 1
Simple Counting Sort
Prepare for Full Counting Sort
The Full Counting Sort
QuickSort1
Simple Quick Sort
Quick-Sort Advanced
Quick Sort Running Time
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Sorting Challenges
Algorithms for Interviews
Advanced Graph Algorithms
Rosetta Challenges
Merge Sort I
Full Merge Sort
Index Match
Time Scheduler
Maximum Time Range
Smallest Difference
The Median
Find the Duplicates
Basic Programming Problems
Running Time and Big-O
How to Answer Questions
Algorithm-Solving Strategies
Data Structures
Trees and Graphs
Recursion and Sorting
Software Design
Additional Resources
Weighted Graphs
Shortest Path on a Weighted Graph
Minimum Spanning Tree
ABC Problem
Cut a Rectangle
Make Change
Closest Pair
Equilibrium index
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
While going through Career Prep you will review some of the computer science
concepts previously learned and apply by solving a curated list of Leetcode
challenges that are often asked in job interviews.
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Section 3: Career Prep
Work with your dedicated career coach and pair programming partners to get ready
for job interviews, start applying to jobs, and learn how to negotiate.
Online Presence
Interview Prep
Finding a Job
Portfolio
Resume
LinkedIn
Github
AngelList
Open Source
Introduction to job interviews
Technical questions
System Design questions
Behavioral questions
Questions to ask
Psychological tricks
Negotiation tips
Mock interviews
Graduation
Job types
Startups
Your dream job
Other jobs
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