Programming for Non-Programmers Bootcamp

About this workshop series

Are you a creative or entrepreneur that wishes you could speak tech with your web development team? Maybe you wish you could code a bit yourself? Programming for Non-Programmers is a workshop series at General Assembly designed to help non-programmers communicate more efficiently with developers or to help aspiring developers get started.

PART 1: You will be introduced to a broad overview of programming and learn the following along the way. The tech speak:

• What is programming?
• What can you build with various languages?
• What is web development?
• The difference between a web site and web app
• Stages of web development.
• The difference between front-end and back-end web development.
• What are common programming concepts?

The basics of code:

• HTML/CSS & JavaScript.
• Demo, read and update simple examples of code.

PART 2: Introduction to Front End Web Development We will code a website from scratch together and learn the following along the way:

HTML basics

• How to get set up on your own computer.
• Use the basic content tags (headings, images, links, paragraphs).
• Create different sections in your website (layout).

CSS basics

• Basic styling properties and how to connect with HTML.
• Selectors and how the different sections of a site.

You will also learn:

• How to upload a web page to a server using FTP.
• How to obtain a domain name.
• The difference between HTML5/CSS3 and HTML/CSS.
• The purpose of JavaScript and how it drives interactivity in your site.
  

Prereqs & Preparation

• Please bring a laptop to class with Sublime Text downloaded.