Things-to-know/Readme.md

Big ol' checklist of things to know. Mostly for my wife whom wants to get into programming, but could be for anyone entering. This is mostly focused on a web developer role.

Here is a skill legend, if these are not on line items they are on headers of sections

• 🚫 You shouldn't have to know this
• ⭐ You should have basic working knowledge, and know how to get around.
• ✨ You should know how this works for most use cases, and be able to execute without bingling
• 💫 You should be a master of this topic

Frameworks and Technologies

• git ✨
• The command line ⭐
• 1 current client side framework (React, Angular, Vue) 💫
• 1 current server side framework (C# MVC, ExpressJS, Spring boot) 💫
• SQL (Structured Query Language) ✨
• 1 Relational database ⭐
• 1 Non-relational database ⭐
• JavaScript ✨
• A language that compiles into JavaScript ⭐
• 1 strong typed language (C#, Java, Scala, etc) ✨
• HTML 💫
• CSS 💫
• LESS or SCSS ✨
• A 3rd party component library (bootstrap.js, material-ui, etc.) 💫

Language Semantics 💫

• JavaScript gotchas (== vs ===, NaN vs undefined vs null, etc)
• Operators
• Methods
• Functions
• Variables
• Annonymous and Lambda functions
• Property getters and setters
• Object Oriented Programming and design
• Software design patterns (Adapter, factory, facade, etc)

Theory