Sourced primarily from Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft who created Web Dev for Beginners, we are pleased to offer an 11-week, 22-lesson curriculum all about JavaScript, CSS, and HTML basics, with a sprinkling of React.js at the end. Each lesson includes pre- and post-lesson quizzes, written instructions to complete the lesson, a solution, an assignment and more. Our project-based pedagogy allows you to learn while building, a proven way for new skills to 'stick'.
Students, this is the curriculum that is taught at Front-End Foxes School, a bootcamp for women with worldwide cohorts. Here are things to get set up before the cohort starts:
- Create a free GitHub.com account. This is where you will store your code.
- Install .git on you local computer. Here are instructions on how to do this.
- Get used to the command line. This is your Terminal on Mac, and your Command Prompt on Windows. Learn more in this article.
- Download and install the free code editor, Visual Studio Code.
We have chosen two pedagogical tenets while building this curriculum: ensuring that it is project-based and that it includes frequent quizzes. By the end of this series, students will have built a typing game, a virtual terrarium, a 'green' browser extension, a business-type banking app, a pet adoption app with Vue.js and a React.js portfolio to host all your work. The student will have learned basics of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, a bit of Vue.js and React.js frameworks, along with the modern toolchain of today's web developer.
By ensuring that the content aligns with projects, the process is made more engaging for students and retention of concepts will be augmented. We also wrote several starter lessons in JavaScript basics to introduce concepts, paired with video from the "Beginners Series to: JavaScript" collection of video tutorials, some of whose authors contributed to this curriculum.
In addition, a low-stakes quiz before a class sets the intention of the student towards learning a topic, while a second quiz after class ensures further retention. This curriculum was designed to be flexible and fun and can be taken in whole or in part. The projects start small and become increasingly complex by the end of the 11 week cycle.
Here are links to our Code of Conduct, Contributing, and Translation guidelines.
- optional sketchnote
- optional supplemental video
- pre-lesson warmup quiz
- written lesson
- for project-based lessons, step-by-step guides on how to build the project
- knowledge checks
- a challenge
- supplemental reading
- assignment
- post-lesson quiz
| Lesson Number | Project Name | Concepts Taught | Learning Objectives | Linked Lesson |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Getting Started | Basics of GitHub, includes working with a team | How to use GitHub in your project, how to collaborate with others on a code base | Intro to GitHub |
| 02 | Getting Started | Introduction to Programming and Tools of the Trade | Learn the basic underpinnings behind most programming languages and about software that helps professional developers do their jobs | Intro to Programming Languages and Tools of the Trade |
| 03 | Getting Started | Accessibility | Learn the basics of web accessibility | Accessibility Fundamentals |
| 04 | JS Basics | JavaScript Data Types | The basics of JavaScript data types | Data Types |
| 05 | JS Basics | Functions and Methods | Learn about functions and methods to manage an application's logic flow | Functions and Methods |
| 06 | JS Basics | Making Decisions with JS | Learn how to create conditions in your code using decision-making methods | Making Decisions |
| 07 | JS Basics | Arrays and Loops | Work with data using arrays and loops in JavaScript | Arrays and Loops |
| 08 | Terrarium | HTML in Practice | Build the HTML to create an online terrarium, focusing on building a layout | Introduction to HTML |
| 09 | Terrarium | CSS in Practice | Build the CSS to style the online terrarium, focusing on the basics of CSS including making the page responsive | Introduction to CSS |
| 10 | Terrarium | JavaScript Closures, DOM manipulation | Build the JavaScript to make the terrarium function as a drag/drop interface, focusing on closures and DOM manipulation | JavaScript Closures, DOM manipulation |
| 11 | Typing Game | Build a Typing Game | Learn how to use keyboard events to drive the logic of your JavaScript app | Event-Driven Programming |
| 12 | Green Browser Extension | Working with Browsers | Learn how browsers work, their history, and how to scaffold the first elements of a browser extension | About Browsers |
| 13 | Green Browser Extension | Building a form, calling an API and storing variables in local storage | Build the JavaScript elements of your browser extension to call an API using variables stored in local storage | APIs, Forms, and Local Storage |
| 14 | Green Browser Extension | Background processes in the browser, web performance | Use the browser's background processes to manage the extension's icon; learn about web performance and some optimizations to make | Background Tasks and Performance |
| 15 | Banking App | HTML Templates and Routes in a Web App | Learn how to create the scaffold of a multipage website's architecture using routing and HTML templates | HTML Templates and Routes |
| 16 | Banking App | Build a Login and Registration Form | Learn about building forms and handing validation routines | Forms |
| 17 | Banking App | Methods of Fetching and Using Data | How data flows in and out of your app, how to fetch it, store it, and dispose of it | Data |
| 18 | Banking App | Concepts of State Management | Learn how your app retains state and how to manage it programmatically | State Management |
| 19 | A Taste of Vue | Build a pet app with Vue.js | Learn how to build an app with Vue.js | Vue |
| 20 | Build your Portfolio with React | Scaffold a React.js app | Introduction to React.js; JSX, Scaffold your site | Portfolio Scaffolding |
| 21 | Build your Portfolio with React.js | Build out your site | Components, Props, Methods | Portfolio Build-Out |
| 22 | Build your Portfolio with React.js | Handling State and Routes | State Management in React, Routing | State Management and Routing |
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