University of Virginia
Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs III
University of Virginia

Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs III

Alex Cowan

Instructor: Alex Cowan

3,081 already enrolled

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level
No prior experience required
13 hours to complete
3 weeks at 4 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level
No prior experience required
13 hours to complete
3 weeks at 4 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • How to go from idea to design, and from design to code

  • How to integrate with web API's like Google Firebase to build a modern web application

  • How to take the anxiety and guesswork out of coding with analytical debugging

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6 assignments

Taught in English

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This course is part of the Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs Specialization
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There are 3 modules in this course

At its core, software is about automating tasks that machines can do better than humans, and you'll go straight to the heart of that with this week's case and related practice. You'll use Javascript to extract, transform, and load/render external data- a Google Sheet.

What's included

6 videos4 readings2 assignments

More than ever, modern software development is about integrating pre-existing code and services. Rarely is a modern application built from scratch. As you’ve seen, creating and maintaining code is a lot of work, so it’s better to leverage basic building blocks that someone else has created and is maintaining. This week, you’ll work with some code that interfaces to Google’s Firebase, a popular ‘back end as a service’ platform.

What's included

10 videos2 readings2 assignments2 discussion prompts

Like the first two courses in the specialization, in this last week you’ll apply what you’ve learned to your coding project. You’ve got a lot more breadth in your coding skills now, which is awesome! However, now it’s even more important that you anchor yourself in the user story and prototype you selected to make sure you know what you’re trying to have happen with your code. Otherwise, it’s easy to end up confused. While I hope you’re now comfortable using it, you do not have to use Google Firebase, though that’s certainly an option. Note 1: If you started here in the specialization, you’ll want to work from the options in the brief to build a prototype on JS Fiddle in HTML and CSS, and then layer in some Javascript. Note 2: If you’d like to start with a new concept from the brief for this course, that’s fine.

What's included

4 videos2 assignments1 peer review

Instructor

Alex Cowan
University of Virginia
25 Courses491,598 learners

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