The Coding Bootcamp Primer

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Course level: Beginner

This course teaches you the web development skills you need in order to enroll in a coding bootcamp. It's your first step towards a career in software development.

What's inside

This course contains 65 interactive screencasts

The Coding Bootcamp Primer

65 lessons - 4 hours

2. V School Learning Philosophy

3. Introducing The Frontend Developer Career Path

4. How to Use Scrimba

5. External Link - Computer Setup

6. External Link - Using VS Code

7. Preview: the V School Pre-course Project

8. Introduction to HTML

9. HTML Elements

10. HTML Attributes

11. Assignment - Silly CIA part 1

12. HTML5 Semantic Tags

13. CSS Intro (inline-style)

14. CSS Selectors

15. Assignment - Silly CIA part 2

16. Assignment - CSS Wars: The Selector Awakens

17. CSS Colors and Fonts

18. CSS Display Property

19. Sign up for our Email List

20. Assignment - Newsies

21. CSS Box Model

22. Assignment - Color Grid From Scratch

23. CSS Layout and Positioning

24. Assignment - CSS Flags

25. Assignment - Design a Blog

26. Debugging Intro

27. External Link - Chrome Dev Tools

28. External Link - Using Google

30. Assignment - Grocery Store JS

32. Conditionals

33. Assignment - If Statement Olympics

35. Assignment - Even/Odd Looping

36. Assignment - Loops And Arrays Practice

37. Functions part 1

38. Functions part 2

39. Assignment - Functions Exercise

40. Objects Part 1

41. Objects Part 2

42. Assignment - Social JS

43. Assignment - Loop Olympics

44. Conventions

45. Assignment - Daily Planet Editor

46. Introduction to the DOM

47. What is the DOM?

48. Assignment - log `document` to the console

49. Selecting Elements - getElementById

50. Assignment - getElementById

51. Selecting Multiple Elements

52. querySelector and querySelectorAll

53. Modifying an element's text

54. Modifying Styles

55. Modifying Styles - className and classList

56. Modifying elements - value

57. Creating elements in JS

58. Creating elements in JS - innerHTML

59. Creating elements in JS - for loops + createElement

60. Event Listeners

61. Self study - get the value from an input element

62. DJ JS - Event listener practice

63. Pre-course Project

65. Congratulations on Completing the Bootcamp Primer

You'll learn

Basic HTML

HTML Semantic tags

How to Google

Effective learning strategies

Local dev setup

CSS basics

CSS box model

CSS positioning and layout

JavaScript basics

Primitive datatypes

Complex datatypes

Functions

Loops

DOM manipulation basics

Event Listeners

Best practices

Javascript conventions

Web development fundamentals

Debugging code

Chrome Dev Tools

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Why this course rocks

This Bootcamp Primer will provide you with the basics of web development and prepare you to begin any coding bootcamp. Practice learning code with 63 interactive lessons spanning over 4.5 hours. Solve 17 assignments to ensure that the knowledge sticks with you.  Lessons includes an introduction to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the DOM, as well as other introductory topics like setting up your computer for web dev, using Visual Studio Code, how to debug your code, and using the Chrome Developer Tools.  

Who is V School?

This course is taught by the instructors at V School, an award-winning technology bootcamp in Salt Lake City, Utah. They teach UX design and full-stack JavaScript, and their hiring partners include companies like Google and Amazon.

If you ever get stuck, you'll be invited to V Schools Slack channel where you can ask questions, and connect with fellow students.

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