Foundation Project

Welcome to your final project! Here you can learn more about the goals and requirements of this final module.

Learning Goals

• Practice working in a team on the same project

• Develop self-guided learning skills (i.e. finding answers to your own problems)

• Practice building a project from a brief

• Practice interpreting requirements and making assumptions

• Developing your own additional requirements (i.e. adding your own flair to the project)

• Practice breaking big problems down into smaller tasks

• Managing your own tasks within a tight deadline

• Understanding how and when to ask for help at the right time

• Taking a project from idea to completion, including deploying it to the web

Technical Requirements

Frontend

• Design and implement layout using HTML and CSS

• Use DOM manipulation to introduce interactive elements

• Use JavaScript functions, types and loops and more to implement features

• Use GET requests to bring content and data into your app

Backend

• Implement an API to return data to the frontend

• Use Postman to test your API

• Design a data schema to store data for your app

• Create a database table with usable data

Organisation Requirements

• Work as a pair (two trainees) to complete the project together

• Use Trello to organise your project and visualise your progress

• Define your tasks with Trello cards

• Prioritise your tasks using MoSCoW so you know what to work on first

• Organise your tasks into weekly sprints

• Submit pull request(s) each week for each milestone in the project brief

Projects

See the Project Brief.