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Web Development Fundamentals with Kasia

Web Development Fundamentals with Kasia

About:

Learning to code is both fun and challenging. It offers opportunities to be creative and problem solve. Think of this course as Web Dev 101 - teaching you the fundamentals of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more! Within just a few weeks, you will have working projects to demonstrate your new skills 👩‍💻

Requirements:

Students should have the following programmes downloaded onto their computer: Visual Studio Code, Google Chrome, Github Desktop

This course is sponsored by:

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Total Course Spaces Remaining:
TBC

📅  Week 1: Introduction to Web Development

  • Overview of course structure and goals
  • Introduction to HTML: Basic structure, tags, and elements
  • Hands-on practice: Creating a simple HTML webpage
  • Introduction to the browser inspector
  • Introduction to Git version control and GitHub (setting up an account, creating repositories)

📅  Week 2: Styling with CSS

  • Introduction to CSS: Selectors, properties, and values
  • Cascading, specificity and inheritance
  • Using the browser inspector to test changes
  • Hands-on practice: Styling the HTML webpage created in Week 1
  • GitHub: Uploading HTML and CSS files to GitHub repositories

📅  Week 3: Advanced CSS and Responsive Design

  • Introduction to CSS Flexbox and Grid layout
  • Understanding responsive design principles
  • Using the browser inspector to test responsiveness
  • Hands-on practice: Implementing advanced layouts using Flexbox or Grid
  • GitHub: Hosting the responsive webpage on GitHub Pages

📅  Week 4: Document Object Model (DOM) Manipulation

  • Understanding the DOM and its structure
  • Accessing and manipulating DOM elements with JavaScript
  • Event handling
  • Hands-on practice: Interactive elements and event listeners on the webpage
  • GitHub: Committing changes to GitHub repositories

📅  Week 5: JavaScript Fundamentals (Part 1)

  • Basics of JavaScript: Variables, data types, and operators
  • Control structures: Conditionals and loops
  • Hands-on practice: Implementing simple JavaScript functionality on the webpage
  • GitHub: Adding JavaScript files to GitHub repositories

📅  Week 6: JavaScript Fundamentals (Part 2)

  • Functions: Declaring, calling, and passing parameters
  • Scope and closures
  • Hands-on practice: Implementing more complex JavaScript functionality on the webpage
  • GitHub: Committing changes and updating JavaScript files on GitHub repositories

📅  Week 7: UI/UX Principles and Accessibility

  • Basic UI/UX principles: Layout, typography, and color theory
  • Understanding accessibility principles and guidelines
  • Techniques for making websites accessible
  • Hands-on practice: Auditing and improving the accessibility of the webpage
  • GitHub: Documenting accessibility improvements and pushing changes to GitHub repositories

📅  Week 8: Final Projects and Review

  • Work on final projects incorporating HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Present final projects to the class for feedback and review
  • Recap of key concepts covered throughout the course
  • Q&A session and further resources for continued learning
  • GitHub: Finalising and publishing final projects on GitHub Pages, showcasing students' work to a wider audience

Total Spaces Available:

20 Spaces

Schedule:

1 Session Each Week for 8 Weeks

Price

Free (Company Sponsored)

Location:

Fully Remote

Start Date:

TBC

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