Earning Criteria

• Demonstrating Collaborative Front-End Development: For their first project, students are tasked to collaborate in small groups to conceptualize and build creative complex web apps by leveraging outside data sources and applying technical knowledge. Once completed, students are expected to prepare a professional presentation where they demonstrate interview skills by speaking technically about different project features while also explaining the software development process.
• Demonstrating Collaborative Full Stack Development: For their second project, students work in groups to conceptualize an inclusive, complex full-stack web app. Their app should follow industry-recognized accessibility standards.  Students are expected to delegate responsibilities among their groups based on the pre-determined project requirements. Upon completion, students should be able to effectively demonstrate and explain their full-stack app through professional group presentations.
• Final Project: Students combine technologies learned throughout the course to develop a web app that satisfies a real-world demand. Upon completion, the app should include developed, complex, core features and be deployed as to be accessed by real-world users. For their final presentation, groups should present project work in a narrative form that demonstrates the final application and clearly outlines the development process, as well as, be ready to defend design decisions
• In addition to the three projects, students must complete and turn in all but two homework assignments in order to stay eligible for the course certificate.