Software Learning Resources

Purpose

Provide students joining NER’s Software Solutions team with helpful content to learn various aspects of software development, web development, and more. It’s been separated into different key topics with resources to help you learn the basics. You might not need to watch all of these videos (some are long!), but if you’re starting from scratch they should be helpful. Also, 1.5x or 2x speed is your friend.

Resources

1. The Internet

   1. How does the internet work? (20 min)

   2. How the web works (13 min)

2. Git

   1. Git 101 (slides)

   2. Git 102 (slides) (note: more advanced than you’ll need for this club but good to know)

   3. Git and GitHub for Beginners (45 min)

3. HTML

   1. HTML Tutorial for Beginners (1 hr)

4. JavaScript and TypeScript

   1. JavaScript Tutorial for Beginners (1 hr)

   2. Intro to TypeScript (1 hr)

5. Node.js and Asynchronous Development

   1. The Async Await Episode I Promised (12 min)

   2. Intro to Node.js (17 min)

   3. Promises in 100 seconds (2 min)

   4. Intro to Promises (12 min)

6. React

   1. React Tutorial for Beginners (2.5 hrs)

7. Express

   1. How to Build a REST API with Node.js & Express (1hr)

8. Databases

   1. What is a database (4 mins)

   2. Different types of databases (10 mins)

   3. What is SQL (5 mins)

   4. What is an ORM? (12 min)

Extra Stuff

• React: Fragments aka <></> (9 min), Lists and Keys (8 min), What is DOM? (6 min), React updating the DOM (5 min), Intro to Hooks, useEfffect() Hook

• Back-end: REST API Intro (12 mins)

• Prisma: Official docs (they’re good)

• DevSecOps: GitHub Actions Intro (13 min), Authentication (2 min), JSON Web Tokens (15 min)