BDPA STL

High School Computer Science Training

Learn to code!

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About Us

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We are the St. Louis chapter of the National BDPA. For more than 40 years, BDPA has enabled the upward mobility of African Americans and other minorities in the Information Technology (IT) and STEM fields.


BDPA has been a leader and pioneer in technology and STEM training for IT professionals and High School students since 1986. Our National High School Computer Competition (HSCC) program which is a hands-on training program, has introduced tens of thousands of high school students to coding and application development while also presenting opportunities for students to obtain college scholarships due to the generosity of our sponsors and partners.


HSCC Training

A hands-on introductory web development course. Starting from knowing no code, you can learn HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and MySQL.

IT Showcase Mentoring

Get a mentor to help guide you through creating a competition ready paper, scientific poster, and presentation.

Mobile Application Showcase Mentoring

Interested in taking what you've learned and transferring it to mobile development? Get a mentor to help guide you through creating a mobile application!

Curriculum

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Below are the materials you'll need to learn web programming!

HTML && Styling

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Setup

This is the setup you'll need for the first portion of the course.
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HTML

Here is where we dive into html! These are the basics to how every website works!
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CSS

CSS is how we style our sites! This is where we'll learn to properly style our pages!
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Bootstrap

Instead of spending all of our time styling, others have already put frameworks together! Let's learn some bootstrap!
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Team Work!

Working on a team is how most software gets written! Let's try our hand(s) at it!
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Bootstrap Templates!

You've worked on html, css, bootstrap, and worked on a team now! It's time for you to use a template and see how it works!

Javascript!

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Javascript Fundamentals

Here are the foundations of Javascript! Javascript is how we make our sites dynamic, but first, we have to learn the basics!
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Javascript and Web Pages! !

Now it's time to mix what we've learned into one!

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THE DOM

Javascript and HTML!

Advanced Javascript: React!

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Javascript!

Refresher on the basics of javascript!
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Node JS!

Introduction to Node!
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Introduction to React!!!

Learn about JSX And Props!!
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State!

State and things!
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Lifecycle methods!!

Life cycle methods can be incredibly powerful!
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Hooks!

Life cycle methods can be incredibly powerful!
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Network calls!!

Calling other programs!
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Network calls with Hooks!!

Calling other programs!
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Promise All!

Speed things up with Promise.all!
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Styling!

Use Node modules for styling!!

Advanced Javascript: Express!

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Servers!

How Servers Work!!
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Express!

Introduction to Express!
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Middleware!

What is it? How does it work?!?!
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Databases!!

Using a relational database like MongoDB!!
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Authentication and Authorization!!

Users need to log in! How do you authenticate and authorize them?