What is Full Stack?

Week 1

The "Stack"

We'll be walking through this in class; slides to be posted afterward. If you want to read more on the subject, try these links:

• What is a Full Stack developer?
• The Rise and Fall of the Full-Stack Developer
• Being a Full Stack Developer

Our Stack

The layers of the stack we will be looking at are:

• Presentation
• Client-side logic
• Template (View)
• Controller
• Model
• Database
• Web Server
• Host Machine

Food for thought:

• How do these layers of the stack relate to the Pinterest app demonstrated in class?
• Pick an app from this list, or another app that you're familiar with. Can you identify where it might use each component in the stack?
  • Twitter
  • The New York Times
  • Google Maps
  • Amazon.com
• How do you think mobile development fits into this stack?