A one-month short course from Code Your Future
- You get a taste of programming with JavaScript - one of the most popular and in-demand programming languages today.
- You'll learn fundamentals of programming that can be applied to JavaScript and other languages.
- You'll get to find out if you actually LIKE programming!
- You'll become familiar with some free on-line resources that we recommend to help in future study.
We'll also look at what you can make with programming and what kind of jobs are available to programmers.
If you want more detail about the topics that we're covering, take a look at the concept roadmap
At the end of this short course,
- if you decide programming is definitely for you
- and if we think you're ready
there will be the possibility to apply for further study on the next full-stack web development course.
Whether you take that path or not, we want this course to be useful to you.
Although we'll certainly learn some JavaScript - the most popular language in web development - we won't do any web development with it!
We're not going to lecture you.
You will work through some online courses, and we (or the people sitting around you) will help you when you're really stuck.
We'll start to look at JavaScript in week 2. First we're going to use a simpler language to learn and practice fundamentals.
- A laptop and charger
- A phone would be useful
- Pen and paper (ideally a simple notebook for the course duration)
- Headphones, if you have them - the course contains a lot of video content
- Slack
- Google Classroom
That's it! Most of the software we'll be using is web-based