University of Virginia
Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs Specialization
University of Virginia

Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs Specialization

Learn coding basics to create digital products.

Alex Cowan

Instructor: Alex Cowan

Sponsored by IEM UEM Group

6,559 already enrolled

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4.2

(53 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.2

(53 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • How to take application designs and translate them into functioning web applications using HTML, CSS, and Javascript

  • How to evaluate alternative approaches to your coding implementations

  • How to work through coding issues with analytical debugging techniques

  • How to relate your experience to the challenges and decisions faced by individual developers and development teams

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Specialization - 3 course series

Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs I

Course 122 hours4.1 (55 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • How to transition ideas to designs, and how to translate those designs to code

  • How to build end user interfaces using HTML and CSS (with a transition to Javascript in course 2).

  • How to use analytical debugging to take the guess work and anxiety out of coding

  • How to use digital literacy to enhance your team's practice of agile

Skills you'll gain

Category: Web Development
Category: User Experience Design
Category: Front-End Web Development
Category: Debugging
Category: User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design
Category: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Category: Design and Product
Category: HTML and CSS
Category: Web Design and Development
Category: Web Design
Category: User Centered Design
Category: Experience Design
Category: Product Development
Category: Peer Review
Category: Product Design
Category: Design
Category: Interaction Design
Category: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Category: User Experience
Category: Prototyping

Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs II

Course 214 hours4.4 (17 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • How to take application designs and translate them into digital prototypes using HTML, CSS, and Javascript

  • Analytically debug Javascript with the Chrome debugger

  • Explain what digital literacy means for today’s interdisciplinary collaborators

Skills you'll gain

Category: Debugging
Category: Web Design and Development
Category: Prototyping
Category: Product Development
Category: Javascript and jQuery
Category: Model View Controller
Category: Software Engineering
Category: Computer Programming
Category: Design and Product
Category: Product Design
Category: Software Design Patterns
Category: Object Oriented Design
Category: Software Design
Category: Front-End Web Development
Category: Full-Stack Web Development
Category: jQuery
Category: Web Applications
Category: Scripting Languages
Category: Web Development
Category: Javascript

Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs III

Course 313 hours

What you'll learn

  • How to go from idea to design, and from design to code

  • How to integrate with web API's like Google Firebase to build a modern web application

  • How to take the anxiety and guesswork out of coding with analytical debugging

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Development
Category: Javascript and jQuery
Category: Full-Stack Web Development
Category: Javascript
Category: Web Design and Development
Category: Web Applications
Category: Front-End Web Development
Category: Cloud Applications
Category: Google Workspace
Category: Application Development
Category: Cloud Services
Category: Cloud Infrastructure
Category: Software Development
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: Model View Controller
Category: Software Engineering
Category: Cloud-Based Integration
Category: Cloud API
Category: Software Design
Category: Scripting

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Alex Cowan
University of Virginia
25 Courses492,783 learners

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