Application Development & Emerging Technologies

Upon successful completion of the program, the student will be able to:  

Year 1  

1. Work in teams on a software project as measured by using Git Flow, User Stories, and Agile Best Practices. 
2. Learn new emerging technologies as measured by completing research, testing out the APIs, and implementing the technology into something new without following a tutorial.  
3. Gain an understanding of developing mobile applications as measured by obtaining the Swift Associate and Swift Certified User certificates.  
4. Gain an understanding of testing code as measured by performing quality assurance testing on other student’s code, listing out edge cases for functions, generating test cases for their code, and implementing git hooks that run the tests before a push. 
5. Understand database systems as measured by designing and implementing tables in a SQL database, creating queries to do basic CRUD operations, analyze possible weak points in the system like SQL injection spots.  
6. Understand API development as measured by creating an API off of documentation generated from talking to the customer, Implementing the API on a backend server, connecting the API to a database, and calculating possible costs and implementing ways to mitigate threats that can increase the cost to run the app. 
7. Gain an understanding of working in web development as measured by creating sites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.  Working with frameworks like Angular or React.  Creating sites that work on all sizes of devices. 
8. Gain an understanding of the blockchain as measured by designing and creating smart contracts.  Testing those smart contracts and analyzing them for possible weaknesses.  
9. Manage each part of a project by completing a full stack challenge. This includes creating a database, a backend, a web and iOS frontend, and interactions with smart contracts.  The student will need to be able to get all the parts working and communicating with each other.

Year 2  

DevOps Track  

1. Manage Developer Cloud Accounts and Resources 
2. Build Code Pipelines with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment.
3. Obtain an AWS Certification (Minimum CCP)
4. Identify common security risks and explain the tools to monitor and stop them.  
5. Maintain a GIT Repository and Rollback changes if needed.
6. Manage Docker containers. 

Back-end Track  

1. Design and Implement a Relational Database
2. Design and Implement a NoSQL Database
3. Implement a REST Server and interact with it.
4. Implement a GraphQL Server and interact with it.  
5. Work with Microservices and Serverless functions.

Front-end Track  

1. Build a responsive application that works with state changes.
2. Build an Android App with Kotlin
3. Fetch Data and Display in Web and Native Apps
4. Refactor an existing frontend to be more efficient.  

Product Design and Project Management  

1. Create and Design prototypes for multiple screen sizes and devices.  
2. Explain key features of the HIG and Material documents.
3. Use Agile Methodology and Tools to manage a team.
4. Implement a usability test. 
5. Demonstrate leadership skills. 

Blockchain Track  

1. 1. Build, Test and Deploy smart contracts.
   2. Unit test smart contracts. 
   3. Create applications that interact with the smart contracts. 
   4. Create tokens, factories, and DAOs.