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Web Development: A Primer

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Course Overview

If you're interested in getting into web development, this course is the perfect place to start -- whether you're a high-schooler looking to learn a new skill, or an entrepreneur who wants to build their own website. The course encompasses everything from the basics of networks to the principles of front-end web development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After taking this course, not only will you be comfortable learning any web technology, but you'll also have a better idea of what different technologie...Show More

Course Content

Introduction

1 Lessons

Who This Course is for?

Networks

4 Lessons

What is the Web?

How Does It Work?

How Data Finds its Way?

Life of a Packet

Databases

4 Lessons

Databases in Web Development

SQL Databases

NoSQL Databases

Web Caching

The Front End

4 Lessons

The Server-side and The Client-side

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

The Back End

4 Lessons

What is the Back End?

Microservice Architecture

Back-end programming

NodeJS

Web Development Frameworks

5 Lessons

What are the Frameworks?

Front-end Frameworks

Back-end Frameworks

Isomorphic Frameworks

Software Stacks

Version Control with Git

4 Lessons

The Command Line Interface

What is Git and Why Use it?

Using Git Locally

Repo Hosting

Principles of Software Engineering

5 Lessons

Software Process Models

The Waterfall Model

Incremental Development

Reuse-oriented Software Engineering

Test Driven Development

Conclusion

2 Lessons

Final Words

Where to go from here?

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