Course 1 - Designing a Technical Solution

In this course you will learn the process of turning ideas into technical solutions. You’ll build upon your own idea for an app as you learn the process of conducting market research, user-centered design, and front-end web development. By the end of the course, you will have a user-centered design, wireframes and specification for a web app, along with a front-end user interface built with HTML and CSS.

Course Outline

Solving problems with technology
Human-centered design
HTML basics
CSS basics

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

Describe how software is used to solve problems
Define application requirements based on user research
Design effective products using Human Centered Design
Employ Visual Studio Code and web browser tools in the development of web pages
Learn the basics of how the Internet works
Explore various prototyping techniques following industry standard design principles
Develop basic HTML and CSS webpages

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Course 2 - Building Interactive Prototypes using JavaScript

In this course, you'll learn how to turn a static web front-end into something that users can interact with. You'll learn the fundamentals of JavaScript and how to apply JavaScript to enhance the interactivity of webpages. By the end of this course, you'll have a web app prototype that allows basic interaction.

Course Outline

Programming fundamentals
JavaScript frontend web development basics
DOM manipulation with JavaScript

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

Read code and describe what it does
Utilize understanding of program execution to formulate algorithms to solve specific tasks
Write JavaScript code to manipulate DOM elements on a webpage

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Course 3 - Building Functional Prototypes using Node.js

In this course, you'll learn all about back-end web development so that you can turn a basic web app prototype into something that can store live data. We'll cover the basics of Node.js so that you can write JavaScript code to build the back-end of your app, as well as the basics of SQL and SQLite to write queries to work with a database. By the end of this course, you'll have a functional web app prototype that can be accessed on the Web.

Course Outline

Web server basics
HTTP and web routing
SQL basics
Database querying with SQLite
Azure deployment

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

Distinguish between front-end and back-end within the context of web app development
Create a back-end web server using Node.js
Understand the uses and types of databases and DBMSs
Construct SQL queries to perform CRUD operations on a database
Deploy a web app on Azure

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