Welcome to GA Seattle! This is the notes repository for our Web Development Immersive. You can view the content in a more searchable/friendly format on Gitbook!

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Notes below are organized by topic, but they are unordered. This is because we may at any point swap new material in or switch the order of the units.

Something to know is that some of the lessons here are more historical and haven't been used in at least a couple years. For example, the Ruby lessons and the lessons in unit 1 that delve deeper into the guts of ES5 syntax like prototypal inheritance. We've elected to skip that in favor of teaching OOP during the Python unit.

We are considering:

• Dropping jQuery or doing a much lighter version than we are currently.
• Dropping AJAX and replacing it with Fetch for APIs
• Dropping AJAX and replacing it with Method Override for RESTful routing
• Adding a lesson on Django REST framework
• Enhancing Django material in general
• Rewriting portions of the Node/Express unit for more fine grained lessonslabs as opposed to a few very long code-alongs.

Connected classroom (SEA and DTLA) used Python/Django as unit 2 instead of unit 4. Also removed much of unit 4 computer science topics.

Local market demand and the fact that Angular and Ruby content was not up to date led us to the conclusion we should switch from Angular to React, and from Ruby to Python.

We began the transition from Angular to React. Some cohorts in this period may have learned either or both.

Additionally, much of the original Python material (locally) was developed at this time.

• GA Dash
• WDI Fundamentals
• FreeCodeCamp

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