Bogotá Bootcamp

Due to Covid-19 we are only offering online courses for 2020. Bogotá Bootcamp is an online and in-person full-time, 10-week full-stack web development bootcamp in Bogotá, Colombia. The first 5 weeks of class are focused on Backend development and the last 5 weeks of the course are focused on frontend development. Students will learn web development basics like Git and Github, HTML, Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. The course includes a combination of lecture, code-alongs, pair programming through zoom rooms, and coding assignments. Students will complete two web applications and a final project to showcase new technical skills to employers. Bogotá Bootcamp also assists students with the job search by helping with updating Linkedin profiles, Github profiles, resumes, personal websites, and connecting students to recruiters. Bogotá Bootcamp aims to offer an affordable tuition price, smaller class sizes, and a positive attitude.

Curriculum:

Week 1 INTRODUCTION AND BASICS
Introduction to AWS tools
Programming basics: variables, if statements, loops, data structures, functions & classes, etc.
Ruby fundamentals: Ruby syntax, iterations, chaining methods, gems, etc.

Week 2 OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
Fundamentals
More advanced concepts: Inheritance, private & public methods, singletons, factory methods, etc.

Week 3 TESTING
Fundamentals: Rspec and testing syntax
More advanced concepts: Unit tests, Test Driven Development, stubbing, context, etc.
Resume best practices.

Week 4 RAILS & FRONT-END BASICS
We will discuss manageable ideas for your first project.
Fundamentals: Model-View-Controller pattern, routes, SQL, etc.
Rails basics: Databases, migrations, ActiveRecord, Rake tasks, etc.
Front-end basics: HTML & CSS.

Week 5 FIRST INDIVIDUAL PROJECT!
You will make your first web application with rails! We're going to focus on the back-end of the site rather than design, but we'll make use of Bootstrap to have a nice looking layout.
Version Control: Git & Github.

Week 6 RAILS BEST PRACTICES
Intermediate rails topics: Application Programming Interfaces, authentication with Devise, whitelisting params, workers, custom & RESTful routes, etc.
Testing with rails: Capybara & Cucumber, integration testing, controller testing. etc.
Deployment basics and more git: Heroku, branch workflow, pull requests, authomatic deployment, etc.

Week 7 FRONT-END
Javascript basics: Syntax, anonymous functions, pageload timings, serializing, JSON, etc.
DOM manipulation: Libraries, JQuery, selectors, modifying attributes, etc.
Styling concepts: More CSS, HTML attributes, etc.

Week 8 SECOND PROJECT - GAME
We'll be creating a game in the browser using your knowledge on the front-end (JS & DOM manipulation.)
Front-end & back-end interaction: Asynchronous requests, Promises, AJAX, asset pipeline, etc.
Testing the front-end: Jasmine, debugger, etc.

Week 9 ADVANCED FRONT-END & FRAMEWORKS
Frameworks: Angular & React basics, difference between these frameworks.
Front-end: Breaking up templates, patterns in the front-end, two-way data binding, wire framing.
Final project preparations!

Week 10 FINAL INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
This week we'll be focused on your final project, in which you'll use all your acquired knowledge and work with new web technologies of your choosing, such as Electron, Ionic, Vue.js, etc. You'll also deploy this project to the internet.

Start Date: May 8, 2020 - July 24, 2020

The online Javascript course is 5-weeks long and covers: variables, loops, iteration, functions, fat arrow functions, ReactJs, NodeJs, Express, AJAX, JSON, SQL, HTML, CSS, and more! The course includes a combination of live-lecture, code-alongs, pair programming through zoom rooms, and coding assignments. Students will complete two web applications in total, one of which is a final project to showcase new technical skills to employers. Bogotá Bootcamp also assists students with the job search by helping with updating LinkedIn profiles, Github profiles, resumes, personal websites, and connecting students to recruiters.

Dates: January 11th - February 12th