Bloc – Introducing the Software Engineering Track

Founder/CTO of Bloc here.

We've got many people within the company that attended top CS programs, and we've worked with employers to come up with this curriculum. It's solid.

Because it's not included on the landing page, I want to share a little more detail about the software engineering principles phase of this program. Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

- Data Structures (linked lists, hashing, stacks, queues, trees, BFS & DFS, etc)

- Algorithms (breaking down problems, complexity analysis with Big-O, sorting algorithms, etc)

- Relational Databases (Use cases, platforms, the design of SQL, performance & caching, etc)

- Architecture & Design Patterns (Separation of concerns, metaprogramming, OO principles, MVC, ORM, Singleton Pattern, and more)

- Best Practices (refactoring, code smells, logging, managing multiple environments, organizing a codebase, etc)

(This is all in addition to the Rails, Frontend, & Apprenticeship portions of the program!)

It's always a challenge to build a high quality curriculum with the appropriate level of depth, and so far I'm really, really confident in the competency of someone graduating from this program.

And, as usual, the best part of Bloc remains the mentor / student relationship. If we find we need to augment these topics on-the-fly, that will absolutely happen.

Let me know if you have any questions!

-dave