| Main centres: | 1-3 business days |
| Regional areas: | 3-4 business days |
| Remote areas: | 3-5 business days |
If you are a complete beginner, web development can be challenging this course will guide you and provide enough detail for you to feel comfortable and learn the topics properly. You should feel at home whether you are a student learning
web development (on your own or as part of a class), a teacher looking for class materials, a hobbyist,
or someone who just wants to understand more about how web technologies work.
The objective of this course is not to take you from "beginner" to "expert" but to take you from "beginner" to "comfortable so you can feel confident to experiment further.
The three technologies every web developer must know are :
HTML : Used to create content
CSS: Used to present the content
JavaScript : Used to create interaction
These core technologies are the building blocks of all websites and web based projects. They are collectively are used in front end web development .
Topics include:
Introduction to basic HTML
HTML document structure
Anatomy of HTML element
Marking up text
Links
Using comments and HTML Attributes
Introduction to basic CSS
Ways to apply CSS
CSS Ruleset
CSS basic selectors
Styling multiple elements
CSS Box model
Using margin and padding properties
Changing background color
CSS Display property
CSS Font property
Using google fonts
Introduction to basic JavaScript
Where to place JavaScript
Variables
Data Types
Operators
Operator precedence
Using Conditionals
Functions
Ruby is a modern object oriented programming language, and Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful frameworks for building web applications. Rails was built using Ruby and makes it much easier to develop web applications with Ruby. Some notable applications have been built using Ruby on Rails: They include
Basecamp, Twitter, Shopify, Github, LivingSocial, Groupon, Hulu, Airbnb, Yellow Pages to just mention a few.. A google search will reveal much more..
We will create a complete blog application from scratch using Rails and in the process build up your skills.
Concepts we will cover while building our blog project include:
Creating a new rails project
Updating gems using bundler
Illustration of MVC architecture
Starting rails server
Conditional statements
Loops
Creating controllers
Creating models
Associating models
creating views
Generating models
Running migrations
Creating posts
Editing posts
Reading posts
Deleting posts
Adding links to posts
Creating comments
Deleting comments
Creating controller actions
Setting up routes
Create forms
Using helpers
Adding resources and automatically generating routes
Implementing security
-By the end of this practical course you would have developed enough skills to be creative and expand this project or build similar type of projects.
Who this course is for:
Beginner Web developers
Anyone who wants to learn web development
