Foundations of Front-End Web Development

Duration: 21 hrs | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 30fps | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, 2 ch | 2.91 GB

Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Learn the skills to quickly start a career in Front-End Development today!

* Lectures 128

This course will teach you the skills to kickstart a career in Front End Development, assuming no previous knowledge of any of the topics presented.

This course will teach you the skills to kickstart a career in Front End Development, assuming no previous knowledge of any of the topics presented.

NOTE: a basic knowledge of how to use your computer and run programs is assumed.

This course is all about helping you changing your career path (or creating a new one) and acquire the necessary skills to jump into the job market as soon as possible.

Are you tired of courses teaching you skills that you cannot easily convert into a salary ? If so, this is the course for you.

Front End Development is an area of Web Development that includes all of the skills required to create the visual and interactive part of a Website. It's a complex mix of skills and technologies and one of the most fast growing and well paid IT sectors of the moment.

A Front End Developer is the link between the graphic designer, responsible for creating the visual design of a Web Application and the Backend Developer responsible for creating the computational logic behind the application. The Front End Developer brings the application to life creating rich, compelling experiences and allowing the user to interact with the data behind the application.

This comprehensive course is aimed at students with no previous experience with Web Development or programming at all;

- What will I learn taking this course?

We'll touch on all the foundational topics that form the toolbelt of a professional Front End Developer:

*Semantic HTML

*CSS

*Responsive Web Development

*Javascript, Ajax and a dash of jQuery

*Backbone.js!

*The art of Unit Testing (brownie points during an Interview!)

We'll learn by doing, building projects and adding functionalities over time, as our knowledge expands.

- What will I get from this course?

By the end of the course, you'll have all the tools and practical knowledge necessary to build visually rich Single page Web applications, try your luck with job interviews and kickstart your career as a Front End Developer!