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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.
Prereqs & Preparation
Laptop is required for this workshop.
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.
About the Instructor
Hsi-Chang Lin
Interactive Developer, Now This
Hsi-Chang Lin is just like you! He decided to make a change, learn new skills, and put them to use. After graduating General Assembly's Web Development Immersive course in 2012, Hsi-Chang became the 1st engineer hire at Justworks -- an online payroll solution. Today he works at NowThis, a socially distributed video news company, where he builds cutting edge front end web applications using the latest tech available. Prior to his career jump, Hsi-Chang enjoyed a successful career in music and journalism. At NPR / New York Public Radio, he produced segments for RadioLab, Studio 360 and The Takeaway where he was a longtime contributor. Hsi-Chang loves his new career because he gets to solve problems every day and enjoys being able to share what he learned at General Assembly with the next generation of coders.
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