Jay Nappy



Instructional Designer/Web Developer,
General Assembly/Krossover

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.

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.

Jay Nappy

Instructional Designer/Web Developer,
General Assembly/Krossover

Jay Nappy is an instructional designer at General Assembly, where he works on and creating instructional materials for the campus tech courses that cover topics relating to web development and data analytics. In his time away from GA, hes a part-time Ruby on Rails developer for Krossover, a startup that offers video-analytics service for sports teams, from Division 3 college programs to the Cleveland Cavaliers.