
March 18, 2024
Steve Pritchard
The University of Pennsylvania's College of Liberal and Professional Studies in collaboration with edX
proudly recognizes
for completion of the Penn LPS Coding Boot Camp
Nora E. Lewis
Masao Sako
Vice Dean, Professional and Liberal Education
School of Arts and Sciences
Academic Director, Penn Boot Camps
Arifa Hasan Ahmad and Nada Al Shoabi Presidential Professor of Physics and Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences

September 2023 Penn LPS Coding Boot Camp in collaboration with edX
Steve Pritchard
The Penn LPS Coding Boot Camp curriculum covers front-end and back-end technologies, and participants complete the program with the skills needed to become full-stack web developers.
Earners of this certificate:
-Demonstrated a fundamental working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, third-party APIs, Progressive Web Applications, MySQL, API design, and the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js)
-Displayed ability to work with diverse teams on demanding timelines to build fully functional web applications from start to finish
-Exhibited skills necessary to learn new technologies and resolve issues independently
The curriculum covered the foundational skills for coding, including:
Databases
-MySQL
-MongoDB
Server Side Development
-MERN Stack
-Template Engines
Browser Based Technologies
-HTML5
-CSS
-JavaScript
-jQuery
-Bootstrap
-Progressive Web Applications
Deployment and Delivery
-Heroku
-Git
-GitHub Pages
-Shell Scripting
API Design
-Client-Server Model
-API
-Rest
-JSON
-AJAX
-HTTP request methods
-GraphQL
Quality Assurance
-Unit Testing
-Linting,
-Continuous Integration
Supplemental Self-Study Topics
-Python
-Java
-C#
-Amazon Web Services
Browse the full curriculum: https://bootcamp.sas.upenn.edu/coding/curriculum/
Skills / Knowledge
- MySQL
- Node.js
- MongoDB
- Quality Assurance
- JSON
- AJAX
- GraphQL
- Shell Scripting
- GitHub
- JavaScript
- MERN Stack
- CSS
- jQuery
- Bootstrap
- Team Work
- API Design
- Web Applications
- Problem Solving
- Heroku
- HTML
Issued on
March 18, 2024
Expires on
Does not expire
Earning Criteria
Required
Attendance of 90% of program contact hours
90% completion of homework assignments
Completion of the following: 24-week program, with 3 individual & group projects