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Web Development

Learn in-demand coding skills from expert developers in our 10-week, part-time course.

Get Ahead With Today’s Essential Skills

Learn to leverage HTML, CSS, and JavaScript through hands-on projects and real-world scenarios. Develop interactive, responsive websites to impress new clients and employers with your coding skills and get ahead on the job.

Evolve With the Tech-Driven Economy

Tap into the universal demand for coding skills, and reach new heights in your career. Our dynamic coursework is designed by industry experts and continuously updated to meet today’s employer demands.

Become Part of a Global Community

Collaborate with expert developers and peers at the local level, and join GA’s growing global network. After graduation, you’ll access exclusive perks, opportunities, and events to continue pursuing a lifetime of learning.

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Our educational excellence is a community effort. When you learn at GA, you can always rely on an in-house team of experts to provide guidance and support, whenever you need it.

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Learn industry-grade frameworks, tools, vocabulary, and best practices from a teacher whose daily work involves using them expertly.
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Unit 1: The Basics

HTML Basics

Apply HTML tags: <head>, <link>, <script>, <style>, <meta> to web pages
Apply tags to HTML documents to effectively section content
Differentiate between the various image file types
Predict image paths and apply relative paths to img src tags
Describe how the Internet delivers web pages to the browser

CSS Basics

Apply and explain the CSS “cascade” including: importance, specificity and inheritance
Differentiate between basic web color principles: RGB, RGBA, hexadecimal color and HSL
Experiment with CSS properties and values to change the styling of a page

Advanced CSS

Define CSS Box Model, and demonstrate the ability to properly manipulate the "box" around tags
Differentiate between classes vs IDs and apply best practices when implementing
Select nested elements to apply styling

Page Layout

Draw the DOM Tree for web pages containing sections <div>, <section>
Apply header, footer, sidebar, and multi-column layouts to develop a web page
Experiment and predict effects of floats and clearing CSS positioning
Describe the use of Normalize and reset.css files

HTML/CSS Lab

Practice web development by transforming a design comp into an HTML and CSS web page

Introduction To Programming

Practice programmatic thinking by writing pseudo code to solve a basic problem
Define web site behavior and the practical uses of JavaScript
Predict DOM output / changes by reading JS code

JavaScript Basics (Variables, Conditionals)

Define variables and identify best cases to use them
Differentiate between strings, integers and floats
Apply conditionals to change the programs control flow
Describe arguments as they relate to functions
Apply the JS click function

JavaScript Functions

Describe arguments as they relate to functions
Predict values returned by a given function
Differentiate between named and anonymous functions

Intro To jQuery

Utilize jQuery tree traversal techniques to access and manipulate DOM elements
Utilize jQuery Docs to apply functions

Arrays and Traversing The DOM

Apply JS and jQuery knowledge to program a carousel
Define arrays and collections
Practice using indexes to access array elements

Unit 2: Building In Concert

Lab Session

Apply programming skills to plan and build a full website with HTML/CSS and JS

Review and Refactor

Apply switch blocks as a replacement for if/else if/else
Describe the concept of "this" as it applies within jQuery anonymous functions
Define refactoring and describe why it is important
Learn the basics of CSS/JS refactoring and be able to apply these concepts to their own code
Differentiate ways to debug code and how to apply the concepts to their own code

Responsive Web Design

Articulate that responsive design is more design than code
Know the difference between fixed and responsive layouts and understand the difference between fluid and elastic layouts
Apply media queries to web sites to achieve a responsive layout
Implement media queries to change layout on mobile devices

Web Forms

Understand what the form tag is used for and what the method, action, and enctype attributes are used for
Be able to differentiate the different types of inputs and why/where we would use each
Understand how to group elements by name
Be able to perform pseudo-styling of input elements that the browser won't let us directly style

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These days, code literacy is an essential skill. You'll learn how to think like a programmer, how to build your first website and so much more.

Emerson Taymor / Managing Director, Co-Founder Philosophie Inc

Meet your instructors

Learn from skilled instructors with professional experience in the field.

Sydney

Jack Jeffress

Full-Stack Web Developer and Google Developer Expert,

Online

Mansoor Siddeeq

Tier 3 Support Engineer,

Salesforce Pardot

New York City

Saimon Sharif

Senior Software Engineer,

Rent the Runway

Boston

Leon Noel

Co-Founder & CEO,

SocialSci

Boston

Jennifer Meade

Co-founder,

ML Assist

San Francisco

Larissa Muramoto

Front-end Engineer,

$3,950 USD

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Unit 1: The Basics

HTML Basics

CSS Basics

Advanced CSS

Page Layout

HTML/CSS Lab

Introduction To Programming

JavaScript Basics (Variables, Conditionals)

JavaScript Functions

Intro To jQuery

Arrays and Traversing The DOM

Unit 2: Building In Concert

Lab Session

Review and Refactor

Responsive Web Design

Web Forms

Special Topic

Jack Jeffress

Mansoor Siddeeq

Saimon Sharif

Leon Noel

Jennifer Meade

Larissa Muramoto

Jul 29 – Oct 7

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8pm - 11pm

$3,950 USD

Aug 19 – Oct 29

Mon & Wed

9:30pm - 12:30am

$3,950 USD

Sep 9 – Nov 20

Mon & Wed

6:30pm - 9:30pm

$3,950 USD

Sep 16 – Nov 25

Mon & Wed

7pm - 10pm

$3,950 USD

Oct 7 – Dec 16

Mon & Wed

8:30pm - 11:30pm

$3,950 USD

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Mon & Wed

7pm - 10pm

$3,950 USD

Dec 10 – Feb 25

Tue & Thu

8pm - 11pm

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