What Is a Front-End Developer? How to Become One, Salary, Skills.

Start building maintainable JavaScript applications that can handle constantly changing data at scale. Discover not only how to create JavaScript-powered React applications, but how and why they work. This course dives deep into the tools and techniques you need to create custom web applications. Explore the essentials, including components, JSX, props, and state, build multi-page apps with React Router, and incorporate functionality from third-party APIs. Then, host the result with Heroku. 

What you'll accomplish

Incoming students should have a familiarity with HTML and the Document Object Model (DOM), along with a working knowledge of JavaScript programming and functions, objects, arrays, and classes.. Throughout this expert-designed program, you’ll:

• Explore the essentials of programming with React, including components, JSX, props, and state.
• Push your knowledge to the next level by learning not only how to create React applications, but how and why they work.
• Build multi page web applications using the popular React Router package.
• Call upon an application programming interface (API) in a React application.
• Host a React application on Heroku to share with the world.
• Apply what you’ve learned to build a custom React application.

Why General Assembly

Since 2011, General Assembly has graduated more than 40,000 students worldwide from the full time & part time courses. During the 2020 hiring shutdown, GA's students, instructors, and career coaches never lost focus, and the KPMG-validated numbers in their Outcomes report reflect it. *For students who graduated in 2020 — the peak of the pandemic — 74.4% of those who participated in GA's full-time Career Services program landed jobs within six months of graduation. General Assembly is proud of their grads + teams' relentless dedication and to see those numbers rising. Download the report here.

Your next step? Submit an application to talk to the General Assembly Admissions team

_{Note: reviews are referenced from Career Karma - https://careerkarma.com/schools/general-assembly}

General Assembly’s Front-End Web Development course equips complete beginners with the cutting-edge tools they need to build rich, interactive websites. Dive into essential programming languages, then round out your skill set with industry-relevant topics like responsive design, APIs, and version control. You’ll apply what you’ve learned to build a custom website from scratch.

What you'll accomplish

This is a beginner-friendly program with no prerequisites, although some students may have coded previously. First-time programmers will have access to pre-course preparatory lessons and additional resources to boost their confidence with key concepts. Throughout this expert-designed program, you’ll:

• Discover how the web works.
• Create the structure and style of a website using HTML and CSS.
• Apply interactivity to a site with JavaScript programming fundamentals.
• Host a website on a server.
• Learn the basic technical vocabulary to communicate with front-end web developers and other technical stakeholders.
• Apply what you’ve learned to create a portfolio project: a dynamic, responsive website.

Why General Assembly

Since 2011, General Assembly has graduated more than 40,000 students worldwide from the full time & part time courses. During the 2020 hiring shutdown, GA's students, instructors, and career coaches never lost focus, and the KPMG-validated numbers in their Outcomes report reflect it. *For students who graduated in 2020 — the peak of the pandemic — 74.4% of those who participated in GA's full-time Career Services program landed jobs within six months of graduation. General Assembly is proud of their grads + teams' relentless dedication and to see those numbers rising. Download the report here.

Your next step? Submit an application to talk to the General Assembly Admissions team

_{Note: reviews are referenced from Career Karma - https://careerkarma.com/schools/general-assembly}

General Assembly’s Software Engineering Immersive is a transformative course designed for you to get the necessary skills for a coding role in three months. 

The Software Engineering bootcamp is led by instructors who are expert practitioners in their field, supported by career coaches that work with you since day one and enhanced by a career services team that is constantly in talks with employers about their tech hiring needs.

What you'll accomplish

As a graduate, you’ll have a portfolio of projects that show your knowledge of fundamental programming concepts, as well as experience with languages, frameworks, and libraries that employers demand. Throughout this expert-designed program, you’ll:

• Create a front-end web application with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or React.

• Develop and deploy full-stack applications with in-demand technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Python with Django, and Express with Node.js.

• Build secure full-stack applications by leveraging common design and architectural patterns like model–view–controller (MVC) and Representational State Transfer (REST).

• Practice version control and collaborative software development with Git and GitHub.

• Safely model and store data in SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Consume and integrate third-party application programming interfaces (APIs) in an application.

Why General Assembly

Since 2011, General Assembly has graduated more than 40,000 students worldwide from the full time & part time courses. During the 2020 hiring shutdown, GA's students, instructors, and career coaches never lost focus, and the KPMG-validated numbers in their Outcomes report reflect it. *For students who graduated in 2020 — the peak of the pandemic — 74.4% of those who participated in GA's full-time Career Services program landed jobs within six months of graduation.  General Assembly is proud of their grads + teams' relentless dedication and to see those numbers rising. Download the report here.

Your next step? Submit an application to talk to the General Assembly Admissions team

_{Note: reviews are referenced from Career Karma - https://careerkarma.com/schools/general-assembly}