When:
Saturday, Feb 06, 2016 11:00a -
3:00p

Where:
General Assembly
51 Melcher Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02210

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Admission:
$145

Event website:
https://generalassemb.ly/education/programming-for-non-programmers-the-basics--2/boston/20497

About This Workshop


Are you a creative or entrepreneur that wishes you could speak tech with your web development team? Maybe you wish you could code a bit yourself? Programming for Non-Programmers is workshop series at General Assembly designed to help non-programmers communicate more efficiently with developers or to help aspiring developers get started.


Takeaways


You will be introduced to a broad overview of programming and learn the following along the way:
The tech speak
What is programming?
What can you build with various languages?
What is web development?
The difference between a web site and web app
Stages of web development
The difference between front-end and back-end web development
What are common programming concepts?
The basics of code
HTML/CSS & JavaScript
Demo, read and update simple examples of code.


Prereqs & Preparation


Laptop is required for this workshop.


About the Instructor


Mike Finneran
Co-Founder & VP of Product,
Kindrdfood Inc.


Michael Finneran is a full stack web developer and co-founder of Kindrdfood.com. He enjoys Ubuntu operating systems, Apache servers, PostgreSQL databases, Ruby and Javascript code, and HTML/CSS (not to get specific). This will be Michael’s 5th time teaching the FEWD course. As a graduate of General Assembly’s WDI program himself, he is dedicated to helping students overcome the challenges they encounter and getting the most out of their time at GA.

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