Capstone Learning Path
⏱ Estimated time: 4-6 weeks at 15 hours/week
This is it. Everything you've learned comes together in one final project: a production application that you design, build, and ship from scratch. No templates. No AI scaffolding. Just your engineering skills and a blank editor.
The Capstone isn't a tutorial. You'll go through the full software development lifecycle: requirements gathering, system design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring. You'll make architectural decisions and live with their consequences.
When you're done, you'll have a production application in your portfolio that proves — to employers, to clients, and to yourself — that you're not a vibe coder anymore. You're an engineer.
Modules in This Track
What You'll Be Able to Do
- Gather and define requirements for a real software project
- Design a complete system architecture with documented trade-offs
- Implement a full-stack application using professional engineering practices
- Write comprehensive tests and set up CI/CD
- Deploy to production with monitoring and observability
- Present and defend technical decisions
Career Outcomes
- Have a portfolio-ready production application
- Demonstrate end-to-end engineering capability to employers
- Confidently discuss your project in interviews
- Prove you can ship software independently