Saturday, June 21 + Sunday, June 22, 2014
10:00am – 5:00pm (Saturday + Sunday)
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Codecademy and Code Crew introduces JavaScript/101: Build a Dynamic Website Using the Instagram API. Are you an aspiring entrepreneur or developer but have no technical experience? Do you want to figure out how web applications like Instagram are built?
Learning JavaScript syntax is great, but it only gets you part way to building a product using JavaScript. JavaScript 101, taught in the offices of Codecademy, will help you make that leap to a deployable product under the guidance of an experienced full-stack developer.
You will walk out the door after the weekend is over with a functioning and deployed, JavaScript driven website.
What you’ll learn
Starting, building, refining and deploying your app from start to finish
- Understanding JavaScript syntax and core concepts
- Learning key programming concepts such as the use of variables, data types, conditional statements, loops, functions, arrays and objects to build a dynamic program
- Understanding how to use JavaScript to add interactivity to a static website
- Learning about the DOM API how to use traverse it using JavaScript
- Discovering best practices and advice on how to take your skills to the next level
- Version control with Git and GitHub
- How use a real text editor to build your site
- Learning how to work with the Chrome Inspector and JavaScript console to debug your code
- How to use JavaScript libraries like jQuery to make working with JavaScript easier
- Learning about Node.js -- the hot new server side framework for JavaScript
- How to deploy our application to the web using Heroku
Who should take this class?
Beginners and anyone that is interested in learning more about programming and how to build web applications
It's highly recommended to have at least some understanding of HTML/CSS (which you can do here: http://www.codecademy.com/learn)
Prerequisites
You will need a Mac or PC...but that's it!
About your instructor
Jamal O'Garro is a former finance guy turned creative professional, turned hacker that loves entrepreneurship and NYC startup culture and has worked for several well funded NYC startups. He is a huge fan of full-stack web development with JavaScript and enjoys building with Angular, Node and Ruby on Rails. He has taught all additional topics at several web development schools in New York City.
For fun Jamal likes to write and backtest simple algo trading strategies in Python, attend hackathons and continue teaching himself (and others) how to code. In his spare spare time (whenever that is) he likes to read, blog, shoot street photography and make documentary films.