General Assembly’s JavaScript Development course teaches students Intermediate front-end development skills using JavaScript, jQuery, Git and GitHub, and the command line. You’ll apply what you’ve learned to build a modern, single- page web application utilizing industry best practices.
What you'll accomplish
This is an intermediate-level course and requires a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS in order to enroll. Throughout this expert-designed program, you’ll:
- How to work with JavaScript, jQuery, the browser, and the Document Object Model (DOM).
- The fundamentals of JavaScript in order to more easily learn how to work with associated frameworks and libraries.
- The essentials of object-oriented programming so that you can more easily learn another object-oriented language.
- How to consume data from APIs and persist data using a back-end-as-a-service provider like Firebase.
- How to build a modern, single-page application using common design patterns.
- Apply what you’ve learned to create a portfolio project: a single-page web app that adheres to modern JavaScript design patterns.
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.
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