Ladders: Software Development Course
This dynamic and far-reaching course will accelerate budding young developers learning and get them up to speed with industry standards and the range of possible careers within this growing and exciting industry sector. We will be looking at many aspects of software development from web development, to mobile development and through to modern games programming techniques.
We will start by learning HTML, CSS and Javascript, which are the languages of the web. We will then move onto Python to show how we can create a backend server to drive our web pages, as well as other applications for Python such as electronics and graphics programming. Finally, we will cover mobile app development with Android and tie the whole stack together so that we can serve up data to a web page from our app and vice versa.
On top of the learning we will also be going to visit a variety of successful businesses which will show the participants the range and scope of available positions. It will also demonstrate the sort of skills that will be needed to secure a position of this nature. The course is very much geared towards helping participants prepare for their first role so each person will be helped to develop the skills for the position they would like to pursue. There will also be support to pursue the possibility of starting their own business with, perhaps, an app or website idea.
| Weeks: | Dates: | Times: | Summary: |
| Week one
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6th Feb | 4-7pm | Introduction to…Software Development (Course Overview) – Intro to HTML/CSS |
| 8th Feb | 4-7pm | Introduction to… Javascript and combining with HTML and CSS to produce webpages. | |
| Week two | 13th Feb | 4-7pm | Skills Development Session in… Javascript – JQuery and data loading through APIs. Graphing data with d3.js |
| 15th Feb | 1-5pm
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Company Visits | |
| Week three | 20th Feb | 4-8pm | Skills Development Session in…Javascript and APIs – Connecting to Data Sources |
| 27th Feb | 4-7pm | Skills Development Session in…Python – an Introduction. PyGame and other frameworks (with Python North East) | |
| Week four | 1st March | 1- 5.30pm | Company Visits… |
| 6th March | 4-7pm | Skills Development Session | |
| Week five | 9th March | 4.30pm-7pm | Introduction to Project Briefs… |
| 11th March | 10 – 4pm | Project Advice & Guidance Session | |
| Week six | 13th March | 4-8pm | Project Development Session |
| Week seven | 20th March | 4-8pm | Project Development Session |
| 23rd March | 4-7pm | Project Development Session | |
| Week eight | 27th March | 10-4pm | Project Development Session |
| 30th March | 4.30-7pm | Project Completion (Showcase) |
*All venues are based in Newcastle City Centre.
** Please Note: depending on beneficiaries some dates/times are subject to change.
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