Become a web developer

This training resource is designed with the goal of training someone with no programming experience to become a frontend web / app developer as quickly as possible.

The course is designed around 'Abilities' and grouped into courses. The scheme is opinionated, and covers just enough to get a foothold as a frontend developer.

Courses typically consist of hand picked material from the internet. Suplimented with any other relevant information and some tasks.

Abilities

• Build static website with basic styling

  • HTML and CSS foundations

• Building a static website with some nice styling (no control of styling)

  • Bootstrap

• Collaborating with others

  • Git / Github

• Building a static website with some nice styling which is controlled

  • Sass
  • Npm (and require)
  • Webpack for 'building' a codebase
  • Bootstrap with Sass

• Building an interactive website (2010 style!)

  • Javascript Foundations
  • JQuery

• Accessing external data via HTTP JSON APIs

  • HTTP
  • HTTP APIs
  • HTTP API library (Superagent)

• Building an interactive website (2015 style!)

  • ES6/7
  • React
  • Routing (React router? pages.js)

Side Quests

• Advanced HTML and CSS
• CSS Layouts and Flexbox
• Underscore / Lodash
• React-Native
• Bash and Linux
• Backend Development