401 ASP.NET Core Curriculum Overview

The ASP.NET curriculum is broken up into three main modules:

1. Intro to C#
2. ASP.NET Web Development
3. React

Module 1 - Into to C#

This module consists of introduction to C#. You will spend the next 10 classes teaching the students C# and getting them ready to go into ASP.NET Core web development. ASP.NET Core assumes an intermediate knowledge of C#, so we have 10 classes to get the students to that level. The focus on these 2 weeks is primarily computer-science related and does not work with the web. The lab assignments are all console apps and focus on practicing the c# concepts taught daily.

Week 1 - Fundamentals

1. Exception Handling
   • LAB: About Me
2. Unit Testing
   • LAB: ATM
3. System.IO
   • LAB: Word Guess Game
4. Classes, Stack/Heap, Garbage Collector
   • LAB: Tic-Tac-Toe
5. OOP Principles
   • LAB: Zoo Part 1

Data Structures: - How to Approach a DS - String & Array manipulation

1. Quiz 1

Week 2 - Advanced Concepts

1. Interfaces
   • LAB: Zoo Part 2
2. Collections (Generic) & Enums
   • LAB: Deck of Cards
3. LINQ & Lambda Expressions
   • LAB: LINQ in Manhattan
4. Design Patterns
   • LAB: Design Patterns
5. Stacks & Queues // Recursion
   • LAB: None

Data Structure: Linked Lists

Quiz 2

Module 2 - ASP.NET Web Development

Weeks 3 & 4 introduce the concept of web development. The students will dive into MVC and learn what an MVC application consists of. They will model a database with an ERD and create a hotel asset management system through the course of the 2 weeks using ASP.NET MVC Core and Dependency Injection. They will end this module with an intro to REST APIs in ASP.NET and building out their own API server.

Week 3 - MVC & Entity Framework Core

1. MVC Intro
   • TIME person of the year MVC App
2. Relational Databases & schemas
   • Lab: System Design//Design a schema
3. CRUD Intro to Entity Framework
   • Lab: AsyncInn Hotel Project Part 1
   • Create Models from DB schema
   • Identify Primary Keys/Foreign Keys/Composite Keys
4. Entity Framework part 2
   • LAB: EFCore Seeding/View Models/Tag Helpers
5. Career Coaching

Data Structure: Stacks/Queues

Quiz 3

Week 4 - Repository Design Pattern & APIs

1. Dependency Injection & Repository Design Pattern
   • Incorporate the Repository Design Pattern into lab
   • Introduce Singleton Design Pattern
2. Azure Deployment & Unit Tests
   • Deploy app to Azure and write basic tests
3. API Introduction
   • TODO List Part 1
4. API - API part 2
   • LAB: Making a call out to an API
5. Midterm Project Kickoff

Data Structures: Trees (Binary, BST, K-ary)

Quiz 4

Week 5 - Midterm Project

Midterm Project week

1. Build a Full CRUD web app
2. Build a custom API
3. Make the Web app call out to the API

Module 3: React

The second half of the class focuses on modern web app development with React.

Week 6 - Authentication/Authorization

1. Intro to Identity: Setup & Registration
   • Implement Identity API and create use registration
2. Career Coaching

Data Structure: Hash Tables

Quiz 5

Week 7: Introduction to React

1. TBD

Data Structure: Graphs

Quiz 6

Week 8: React Hooks & Context

1. TBD
2. Career Coaching

Data Structure: Sorting Algorithms

Quiz 7

Week 9: Misc

1. .NET 4.8 MVC & Web Forms
2. General Overall Review
3. Ethics in Technology
4. Open Source Contribution
   • Learn, Investigate, and Contribute to an open source project
5. Final Project Kickoff

Data Structures: Mock Interviews

Quiz 8

Week 10 - Final Project Week

Final Project Week

1. Build a full-stack app with React and ASP.NET Core
2. Collaborate as a team with git and GitHub
3. Present on completed project: test coverage, performance, security, and privacy