Talk Like A Developer: Front End Development (Downtown LA) | Los Angeles

About this class

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? In this workshop we'll tackle some development principles to get you on the right path. We'll look at questions like, "Front-end vs. Back-end?", "What is this Javascript function thingy, and why am I passing strange math equations to it?"

If you're running a tech start-up, it's essential that you familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of web development. Ultimately knowing how to "talk to the talk" will help you communicate better with developers, and overall just look really cool. Come with questions, and a desire to have fun! No prior development knowledge required.

This session is the first of two, focusing on front-end web development. You can find the other part of this series (the Back-End Web Development Focus) on our main page,.

Interested in seeing this class held privately at your organization? Email us at la@ga.co to request more info.

Takeaways

Fundamentals

• What is programming?
• The different coding languages and how they fit
• Back end vs Front end
• Overview of HTML, CSS and JavaScript

The Front End

• Introduction to HTML
• The lifecycle of a web request
• Browser de-bugging
• HTML5/CSS3
• Introduction to CSS
• Javascript fundamentals
• How to get help with frameworks- JQuery & Bootstrap
• The class will go through the exercise of creating a full working web page

Prereqs & Preparation

Note students should bring laptops as we will be doing live coding during the class and a number of exercises.