Frequently asked questions

Yes, the new version of the course will start 15.3.2020.

There won't be major changes in the course content. The gereatest change shall be in part 5, where integration testing of frontend will be replaced by E2E testing using Cypres.io.

There will also be an entirely new part about Typescript.

The 2019 version can be expanded in the 2020 version, see more here.

You don't have to sign up until you want to do the course exam. The exam is done to the Moodle-system of the Open University. You can find more information here. Please note that only persons with Finnish social security number can get take part to exam and get official ECTS credits. For the course certificate signup or Finnish social security number are not needed.

The course is 3-8 ECTS credits depending on the amount of returned exercises. After completing the course you can continue to deepen your knowledge on the subject matter by doing the 1-10 ETCS credit Full Stack project. Please note that only persons with Finnish social security number can get official ECTS credits. For the course certificate signup or Finnish social security number are not needed.

You can complete the course at your own pace. The course has only one deadline for the exercises and the exams 10th January 2020 at 23.59.59. Do keep in mind that you have to sign up for the exam no later than the day before the deadline 9.1.2020.

The exercises are submitted to GitHub, and by marking the exercises as done in the exercise submission system. You can read more from here.

No. You can use one or more repositories, most important is to name everything in a repository clearly.

No. All exercises for a part must be submitted at the same time. If you marked exercises wrong by accident, or wrote the repository name wrong, send an e-mail to matti.luukkainen@helsinki.fi.

You can get your credits after submitting enough exercises for passing the course, passing the course exam and letting us know through the exercise submission system that you are ready with the course. The deadline is 10th January 2020. Read more here. Please note that only persons with Finnish social security number can get official ECTS credits. For the course certificate signup or Finnish social security number are not needed.

Yes, certificate is available to all who pass the course by 10th January 2020. You can download the certificate after completing the course from the exercise submission system. For the course certificate signup to Open university and Finnish social security number are not needed.

For the course certificate Finnish social security number is not needed. You can download the certificate after completing the course from the exercise submission system.

For the course certificate signup to Open University is not needed. You can download the certificate after completing the course from the exercise submission system.

That's right. If you complete the course with full credits, and complete the practical work with 10 credits, you get a job interview with our partners. Read more here. Please note that only persons with Finnish social security number can get take part to exam and get official ECTS credits.