Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs from the University of Virginia

Learn the basics of coding to create digital products.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Building active software using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Developing confidence and creative abilities in digital projects
  • Design and build a functional web application
  • Working according to a design document
  • The process of moving an idea from design to code
  • Receiving reviews from course participants

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Managers
  • Designers
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Developers
  • Digital project people
  • UX/UI people
  • Software developers
  • Product Managers

Internship – 3-part course series

In this specialization, you will experience the process of moving from ideas to code. The courses are specifically designed for managers, designers, or entrepreneurs who want to actively collaborate with developers. By the end of the program, you will know how to build working software using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. More importantly, you will build your confidence and creativity in digital projects.

Hands-on Learning Project

Over the three courses in the specialization, you will design and build a functional web application using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You will work from a design brief and explore the process of moving from idea to design to code, including feedback from course participants.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Courses for designers, managers and business owners

Course 1

Duration: 22 hours
Rating: 4.0 (50 ratings)

What you will learn:

  • How to transfer ideas into designs, and how to translate these designs into code
  • How to build user interfaces using HTML and CSS (with a move to Javascript in Course 2)
  • How to use analytical coding to take the guesswork out of coding and anxiety
  • How to use digital literacy to improve your team’s practice according to the Agler methodology

Skills you will gain:

  • Rapid prototype development
  • HTML5
  • User story
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • User Experience Design (UXD)

Course 2

Duration: 14 hours
Rating: 4.4 (16 ratings)

What you will learn:

  • How to take app designs and translate them into digital prototypes using HTML, CSS, and Javascript
  • Fix Javascript analytic with Chrome debugger
  • Explain what digital literacy means for today’s interdisciplinary collaborators

Skills you will gain:

  • Rapid prototype development
  • jQuery
  • User Interface Design (UI Design)
  • JavaScript
  • HTML5

Course 3

Duration: 13 hours

What you will learn:

  • How to move from idea to design, and from design to code
  • How to integrate with web APIs like Google Firebase to build a modern app
  • How to take the anxiety and guesswork out of code with analytical debugging

Skills you will gain:

  • Rapid prototype development
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • User Experience (UX)