The Pathway

Four stages. One continuous path.

From first page to full stack.

Fourteen courses across four stages. Every course is built around one project you keep, and each project follows you forward into the next rather than being thrown away.

A webpage becomes interactive, then version controlled, then a React application, then gains a backend, and finally becomes a complete production system you can show an employer.

Foundations

Stage 1 of 4

Programming literacy. These courses do not try to make you a professional developer, they make you fluent enough that everything after them makes sense.

01Introduction to HTML & CSS

Build a real website you can actually use, and understand every line of it.

Project: Personal Portfolio Website · 14 modules

HTMLSemantic HTMLAccessibilityCSSSelectors+12

02Introduction to JavaScript & Python

One concept, two implementations, one way of thinking.

Project: Personal Knowledge Archive · 25 modules

VariablesData typesStringsNumbersBooleans+9

03Command Line

Make the terminal feel useful rather than arbitrary.

Project: Command-Line Productivity System · 14 modules

pwdlscdmkdirtouch+13

04Git & GitHub

Turn work you have already done into portfolio infrastructure.

Project: Professional Repository · 6 modules

initstatusaddcommitlog+12

Application Development

Stage 2 of 4

Actual engineering. Each course is built around one substantial application rather than a sequence of disconnected exercises.

05React.js

Component-based interfaces, taught as a concept that outlives the library.

Project: Knowledge Explorer · 17 modules

ComponentsJSXPropsStateEvents+12

06Django

The backend half: data, authentication, and an API of your own.

Project: Sankofa Journal · 16 modules

Django architectureURLsViewsTemplatesModels+11

07APIs & Datasets

Other people's data, fetched honestly and read carefully.

Project: Open Record · 14 modules

HTTPStatus codesRESTJSONAPI documentation+12

08SQL & Databases

The language underneath every ORM, and the one that outlives them.

Project: The Archive Database · 14 modules

Relational modelSELECTWHEREORDER BYJOIN+14

09TypeScript

Types as a tool for finding mistakes before anyone runs the code.

Project: Typed Explorer · 12 modules

Why typesInferencePrimitivesFunctionsObjects+13

Software Engineering

Stage 3 of 4

The practices that separate somebody who can build a thing from somebody a team can hire. Databases in production, testing as a discipline, authentication done properly, and the way real work is planned and shipped.

10PostgreSQL & Data Modeling

The database you will actually deploy, and how to model for it.

Project: The Production Schema · 9 modules

PostgreSQLTypesJSONBSequencesEXPLAIN ANALYZE+10

11Test-Driven Development

Write the test first, and find out what you actually meant.

Project: The Tested Application · 9 modules

TDDRed green refactorUnit testsIntegration testsEnd to end+8

12User Authentication

Who someone is, what they may do, and how both go wrong.

Project: The Secured Application · 6 modules

SessionsTokensJWTOAuthSocial login+8

13Agile & Delivery

How the work is planned, reviewed and shipped, repeatedly.

Project: The Delivery Pipeline · 7 modules

AgileUser storiesAcceptance criteriaEstimationSprints+11

Full-Stack Engineering

Stage 4 of 4

This does not repeat the individual courses. Those teach the technologies. This teaches you to combine them into a software system, which is a different skill entirely.

14Full Stack Engineer

Start with a project idea. Finish with a production application.

Project: The Full Stack Capstone · 9 modules

Product thinkingUI and UXFrontendBackendREST APIs+6

Capstone Projects

Apply what you have learned

A separate learning mode, not a gallery. You receive requirements and acceptance criteria, but no tutorial. This is where student becomes developer.

Frontend Projects

Requirements, not instructions.

Project: Oware, The Rhythm Machine, The Sankofa Atlas

HTMLCSSJavaScriptReactAccessibility+1

Backend Projects

Data, APIs, and decisions you make yourself.

Project: Susu, The Switchboard, The Open Archive API

PythonDjangoREST APIsDatabasesAuthentication+1

Full-Stack Projects

End to end, entirely yours.

Project: The Commons, Cue, Field Notes

FrontendBackendDatabasesDeploymentDocumentation

Independent Projects

Your idea, your requirements, your build.

Project: The Open Brief, The Rebuild, The Contribution

Problem definitionRequirementsArchitectureDelivery

What portfolio-ready actually means

It is a measurable state, not a phrase. A project does not earn the label until every one of these is true.

FunctionalityResponsive designAccessibility reviewError handlingTestingGit historyREADMEDocumentationDeploymentScreenshotsTechnical explanationA working live URL