Pre-Programming: Everything you need to know before you code

Pre-Programming: Everything you need to know before you code, available at $119.99, has an average rating of 4.54, with 114 lectures, 8 quizzes, based on 12302 reviews, and has 124838 subscribers.

You will learn about Better understand the fundamentals of how programming works Understand the fundamentals of how computers work and how that relates to modern web technology Choose what programming language and path they want to pursue in their career Understand and apply the 8 basic concepts of programming Evaluate, install, and modify any content management system Understand world technology trends like responsive design, pair programming, PaaS systems, and the growth of APIs Make a decision about what technology and ecosystem interests you Correctly understand and apply the concept of a programming framework Call out your friends for not knowing the difference between a framework, library, and IDE (they'll love you) Communicate with others about technology in a way that doesn't immediately give away your inexperience Impress your friends during drinks with random factoids about Bill Gates & Steve Jobs Finally understand the reason Comcast keeps billing you $29.99 This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone interested in learning how to program that is already struggling or intimidated by the process or Anyone who wants to better communicate with development teams they work with or Anyone who wants to hire, vet, & manage developers more effectively or Anyone who is simply interested in getting an in depth understanding of modern web & mobile technology trends It is particularly useful for Anyone interested in learning how to program that is already struggling or intimidated by the process or Anyone who wants to better communicate with development teams they work with or Anyone who wants to hire, vet, & manage developers more effectively or Anyone who is simply interested in getting an in depth understanding of modern web & mobile technology trends.

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Summary

Title: Pre-Programming: Everything you need to know before you code

Price: $119.99

Average Rating: 4.54

Number of Lectures: 114

Number of Quizzes: 8

Number of Published Lectures: 87

Number of Published Quizzes: 6

Number of Curriculum Items: 122

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 93

Original Price: $109.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Better understand the fundamentals of how programming works
Understand the fundamentals of how computers work and how that relates to modern web technology
Choose what programming language and path they want to pursue in their career
Understand and apply the 8 basic concepts of programming
Evaluate, install, and modify any content management system
Understand world technology trends like responsive design, pair programming, PaaS systems, and the growth of APIs
Make a decision about what technology and ecosystem interests you
Correctly understand and apply the concept of a programming framework
Call out your friends for not knowing the difference between a framework, library, and IDE (they'll love you)
Communicate with others about technology in a way that doesn't immediately give away your inexperience
Impress your friends during drinks with random factoids about Bill Gates & Steve Jobs
Finally understand the reason Comcast keeps billing you $29.99

Who Should Attend

Anyone interested in learning how to program that is already struggling or intimidated by the process
Anyone who wants to better communicate with development teams they work with
Anyone who wants to hire, vet, & manage developers more effectively
Anyone who is simply interested in getting an in depth understanding of modern web & mobile technology trends

Target Audiences

Anyone interested in learning how to program that is already struggling or intimidated by the process
Anyone who wants to better communicate with development teams they work with
Anyone who wants to hire, vet, & manage developers more effectively
Anyone who is simply interested in getting an in depth understanding of modern web & mobile technology trends

60%+ of people who try to learn how to program end up quitting.

Why?

Is it because “programming just isn’t for everyone“?

Or is it because only those with experience in hard sciences can learn it?

No, neither of those are true. It’s simply due to the fact that the vast majority of people who try don’t have a basic understanding of the technology they’re going to use.

How exactly can you tackle responsive design if you don’t know how a browser works?

How are you going to create a desktop application if you don’t know what makes your computer freeze constantly (besides porn, obviously)?

How are you going to hide your confused facial expression the next time your site’s server crashes because of a “node socket problem” in your full stack Javascript?

If you’ve ever taken your computer to a technician and said “Make it work” or “It don’t work good. Me cry” then you’re exactly who needs this course.

Over the next 10 years the United States is expected to add over 2 million programming jobs. Jobs that pay well over $100,000 a year. And that’s just the United States (Merica’).

So if you’re trying to jump on the coding gravy train, put down your bronze statuette of Elon Musk standing on Mars, and start filling in the gaps in your “tech literacy”. Even if you yourself do not become a “coding ninja” yourself all the future coding ninjas you work with with thank you (and tell you to stop calling them coding ninjas).

About your instructor:

Hi, I’m Evan Kimbrell. I too struggled to learn the basics of programming. If failing to program were a sport, I’d be on the Dream Team.

Today, I run a web and mobile development agency called Sprintkick and over the last 4 years we’ve built and managed over 100+ web & mobile applications.

How does one so technologically challenged manage to pull this off? Well, first off I would disagree with “technologically challenged” (come on) and second it was actually straight forward. I just had to spend a concerted amount of time learning what I needed to know about basic computer, web, and programming technology as well as modern technology trends and advanced concepts.

This course is an accelerated path designed to get you to “I get it” and finally start communicating correctly & effectively about technology.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: The basics

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Lecture 2: Join our community on Slack!

Lecture 3: Why care about computers?

Lecture 4: What is a computer?

Lecture 5: How does a computer work?

Lecture 6: How do computers send & receive information?

Lecture 7: Machinespeak & The Matrix

Lecture 8: What's an operating system?

Lecture 9: Operating systems in the modern era

Lecture 10: Desktop software

Lecture 11: ACTIVITY: Get involved

Lecture 12: Review & Recap: Section 1

Lecture 13: Review sheets & course activities – all in one PDF

Chapter 2: The Internet

Lecture 1: The history of the internet

Lecture 2: The anatomy of the internet

Lecture 3: Domain, IP, DNS

Lecture 4: How do browsers work?

Lecture 5: How does mobile internet work?

Lecture 6: The anatomy of a website

Lecture 7: The anatomy of a mobile site

Lecture 8: OPTIONAL: Let's talk about Netscape

Lecture 9: Review & Recap: Section 2

Chapter 3: Front, back, & stacks

Lecture 1: What is front-end vs. back-end?

Lecture 2: ACTIVITY: Front or Back? Look at job descriptions and see which is which

Lecture 3: What do I mean by language?

Lecture 4: HTML

Lecture 5: ACTIVITY: Let's try out some HTML

Lecture 6: CSS

Lecture 7: ACTIVITY: Let's try modifying a CSS sheet

Lecture 8: JavaScript

Lecture 9: ACTIVITY: Let's try Javascript

Lecture 10: Let's talk about back-end

Lecture 11: Python

Lecture 12: PHP

Lecture 13: Ruby

Lecture 14: What's a tech stack?

Lecture 15: Common stacks for web

Lecture 16: Review & Recap: Section 3

Chapter 4: Core concepts of coding

Lecture 1: Intro to the core concepts of programming

Lecture 2: Intro to Sublime

Lecture 3: Syntax

Lecture 4: Variables

Lecture 5: Printing

Lecture 6: Commenting

Lecture 7: Strings

Lecture 8: Arrays

Lecture 9: Review & Recap: Section 4

Chapter 5: Frameworks & APIs

Lecture 1: What is a framework?

Lecture 2: Front-end frameworks

Lecture 3: Back-end frameworks

Lecture 4: What's an IDE? How is this different?

Lecture 5: Libraries

Lecture 6: What is an API?

Lecture 7: ACTIVITY: Make a mashup

Lecture 8: Review & Recap: Section 5

Chapter 6: Content management systems

Lecture 1: What is a CMS?

Lecture 2: The big three CMS: WordPress, Drupal, Magento

Lecture 3: Let's look at WordPress

Lecture 4: The new guard CMS: WYSIWYG, Squarespace, Weebly, Shopify

Lecture 5: Let's look at Shopify

Lecture 6: Picking one over the other

Lecture 7: ACTIVITY: SquareSpace or WordPress?

Lecture 8: Review & Recap: Section 6

Chapter 7: Advanced concepts

Lecture 1: GIT

Lecture 2: OOP

Lecture 3: ACTIVITY: Find examples of software bugs

Lecture 4: Continuous integration

Lecture 5: Review & Recap: Section 7

Chapter 8: Tech trends

Lecture 1: Full stack JS

Lecture 2: Pair programming

Lecture 3: Full stack design

Lecture 4: Hybrid apps

Lecture 5: Responsive design

Lecture 6: Saas, Paas, & Iaas

Lecture 7: SWIFT

Lecture 8: Review & Recap: Section 8

Chapter 9: Choose your path

Lecture 1: Intro to section 9

Lecture 2: Web development vs. software engineering vs. hackers vs. full stack design

Lecture 3: How do you choose?

Lecture 4: How to learn front-end development

Lecture 5: How to learn back-end development

Lecture 6: PHP, Ruby, Python

Lecture 7: Should I specialize in new technologies?

Lecture 8: ACTIVITY: Job titles

Lecture 9: Extra resources

Instructors

Evan Kimbrell
Founder of Sprintkick | Ex-VC | Ex-startup founder

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 62 votes
2 stars: 105 votes
3 stars: 771 votes
4 stars: 3769 votes
5 stars: 7595 votes

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