RS School. Short track

Overview

Short track is designed to evaluate and solidify students' core frontend development skills before proceeding to advanced training in the Framework course.

Throughout this stage, students work on practical assignments: building a personal CV page, engineering a responsive web application using Vanilla TypeScript, HTML, and SCSS, enhancing their project with custom creative features, practicing soft skills through an English self-introduction, and conducting peer-to-peer technical cross-interviews.

Content includes

• HTML & CSS: Semantic markup, responsive layout, SCSS.
• JavaScript & TypeScript: Language fundamentals, DOM manipulation, asynchronous programming.
• Developer Tooling & Quality: Git, modern bundlers, code quality tools, unit testing.
• Frontend Web Application: Building a dynamic web application without external UI frameworks.
• Soft Skills & Communication: English self-introduction, presentation, and technical cross-interview practice.

Language

English only (assignments, communication, and interviews).

Workload

20+ hours per week.

Roadmap

Week #1 ( September, 7 - September, 13 )

• Read School Documentation
• Test RSSchool App
• CV. HTML, CSS & Git Basics

Week #2 - ( September, 14 - September, 20 )

• Minigames task. Overview
• Minigames task. Story 1

Week #3 - ( September, 21 - September, 27 )

• Minigames task. Story 2

Week #4 - ( September, 28 - October, 4 )

• Minigames task. Story 3

Week #5 - ( October, 5 - October, 11 )

• Minigames task. Story 4

Week #6 - #7- ( October, 12 - October, 25 )

• Game: Alchemist's Cauldron

Week #8 - ( October, 26 - November, 1 )

• Self introduction

Week #9-10 (November, 2 - November, 22 )

• Cross Interview