Stage 2 : Explore the program curriculum
Fifteen focused pillars that take you from programming fundamentals to production-ready full-stack apps — hands-on, modern, and deployable.

• Core programming & problem solving: operators, conditionals, loops, arrays (including multidimensional), functions & strings, flowcharts, pseudocode, coding best practices, memory units & number systems.
• Objects & OOP basics: objects, methods, constructor functions, prototypes and prototypical inheritance.
• Version control: Git & GitHub workflows, branching, commits and collaboration basics.
• Modern JavaScript (ES6+): let/const, arrow functions, template literals, destructuring, modules and other ES6 features.
• Execution model & scope: execution context, call stack, hoisting, this keyword and closures.
• Function patterns: higher-order functions, call/apply/bind, callbacks, pattern printing and practical function-based problem patterns.
• Asynchronous JS & HTTP: callbacks → Promises → async/await, fetch/Axios, HTTP methods (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE) and REST fundamentals.
• Data structures (front & back): arrays, 2D arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, key–value structures and building abstract DS from primitives.
• Algorithms & complexity: time/space complexity, logarithms, sorting (bubble/selection), merge/quick overview, two-pointer & sliding-window, subarrays/substrings, brute-force approaches.
• HTML & semantic markup: accessible, semantic structure and fundamentals of HTML.
• CSS & layout: box model, selectors/combinators, Flexbox, CSS Grid, responsive design and media queries.
• Client-side behavior & UX patterns: DOM manipulation, LocalStorage, modules, sorting/filtering/pagination, debouncing & throttling, and front-end performance tuning.
• Firebase & client services: Firebase database, authentication/authorization and hosting for rapid prototypes.
• React & advanced front-end tooling: JSX, components, props/state, virtual DOM, lifecycle, hooks (useEffect, useRef), Context API, custom hooks, routing, The Foundation for your Design System - shadcn/ui Shadcn, TypeScript integration, Redux/useReducer and performance optimization.
• Back-end, infra & capstones: Node.js + Express fundamentals, project structure, middleware, MongoDB + Mongoose (aggregation), Redis caching, token-based auth/OAuth, hashing, WebSockets/real-time, cron jobs, API docs (Swagger/Postman), testing & monitoring, event-driven architecture, final full-stack capstone and AWS + CI/CD deployment.