Part-time Website Basics Course

Learn how to build websites

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September – November 2021

Flexible coding course for beginners

If you are new to coding and you want to get an overview of web development, this is the right course for you.

You will learn how to build responsive websites with HTML, CSS and JavaScript and will learn about the terminal, GitHub, Visual Studio Code and Netlify.

Learning by doing

Every third week you will get a bundle with course material including video lectures, readings and a project brief and practices.

Community Support

The course is based online so that you can follow whenever you have time and get in touch anytime through our slack channel.

If you want you can meet up with the community at Stripped Pizza each Saturday, 4th September – 27th November 2021, from 09:00 until 11:30. During these meetings you get can discuss your questions if you prefer to do that in person.

  • 🏝️ Online platform
  • 👩‍🏫 In-person support by experienced coaches
  • 👩‍👩‍👧 Community meet-ups
  • 📚 Workload: ~ 5 h/week
  • ✨ Recorded lectures
  • 🇬🇧 The course is in English & we talk Swiss-German🇨🇭
  • 🎨 Creative toolkit
  • 🛎️ Help in Slack
  • 🤸 Extra practices
  • 👩‍💻 Code reviews
  • ☕ Endless Coffee
What you will learn
  • How to structure content on webpages using HTML
  • How to style webpages using CSS
  • How to build responsive webpages for mobile, tablet and desktop
  • How to add forms to your webpages and what a request is
  • The basics of how to make your webpages interactive using JavaScript
  • Development tools such as Github, VS Code, Netlify, the terminal and more
Your benefits
  • Build one project over four weeks. This will then be reviewed by a coach.
  • Monthly course bundle. Every month you will get a bundle with new course material to build creative web projects
  • Weekly knowledge sharing session. Meet weekly to share knowledge, demo your projects and code together.
  • Get support from our online community. Join our community of hundreds other people that are learning how to code.

Detailed Course Content

PROJECT 1: YOUR FIRST WEBSITE
To start off your new programming hobby you need a portfolio to gather all your projects in. Let’s build one together.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
– How to structure your very first web project.
– Master tools and software for web development.
– Learn the basics of HTML – the foundation of all webpages.
– Get started with CSS to style your webpage’s colors and more.
– Learn how to build multi-page websites. 
– How to publish your first webpage on the web. 
PROJECT 2: Layouts and mobile-friendly websites
In this project, you will practice how to place elements on a page and learn what it takes to control the layout for mobile, tablet and desktop. Making image grids, card layouts, navigations and more will no longer be a mystery to you. Cool, right?

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
– The fundamentals of webpage layouting using the box model.
– Create the most common website layouts using Flexbox.
– Make mobile-friendly sites with responsive design.
PROJECT 3: Creating forms
In this project, we will dig deeper into forms, how to style them and how data is sent between webpages and services.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
– The technology behind sign up, sign in and contact forms.
– How to use forms in HTML.  
– The basics of how to send data using HTTP-requests.
– How to style forms and make them fit your site.  
– How to approach and get started with this project.

Price: 1300 CHF

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Impressions of the course

Code Excursion is about peer-to-peer learning with an easy-going and uncompetitive community.

our philosophy

Frequently Asked Questions

The course is based online so that you can learn whenever and wherever it suits you. You get support in our slack community.
The course is based on an online platform which contains all the information you need to learn the basics about websites. Besides that there is a slack community for you to ask questions whenever. There is no online live-stream available.
Turn to our community on Slack for help if you need help while not being on-site. There’s also a FAQ added to each project with the most asked questions. Otherwise you can always ask the experienced coaches.
You will be able to build basic responsive websites using primarily HTML and CSS. You will master the most commonly used tools by developers and you will know some JavaScript to keep experimenting with after the course. You will also have a portfolio to show to possible employers or further programming schools.
Once you buy the course, you can access the course material for one year after the course started. However, if you want to follow the Code Excursion meet-ups we highly recommend you to follow the course and your classmates.
All material except for the meet-ups is online and in a selfstudy format. You can plan your study time however you like, but we recommend that you keep to the triweekly schedule to get most out of the meetups.
The online platform is in English and the coaches also speak English. But most of us are Swiss German 🙂
Curious women* who are interested to learn something new, maybe start out on a new career-path into the tech industry or just make a few adjustments in the digital direction in the current job.
The course is based online so that you can learn whenever and wherever it suits you. You get support in our slack community anytime and if you still feel like it, travel to one of the places we meet. We are looking forward to meeting you! 🤗

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Dank Code Excursion habe ich in einer sehr angenehmen Lernumgebung das Programmieren einer Webseite gelernt. Vorgängig hatte ich sozusagen kein Wissen darüber, was sich unterdessen geändert hat. Der Front-End Kurs in St.Gallen ist daher wirklich empfehlenswert. Die Treffen werden von einem motivierten und inspirierenden Team organisiert.

manuela, leader of marketing & events

I loved being part of Code Excursion in St.Gallen these past months. It‘s a great community of women who motivated me to start learning to code, helped me with any problems along the way and made my Saturday mornings full of interesting conversations, self-development and of course great coffee. I can totally recommend it to anyone wanting to start coding while enjoying great company with other inspiring women!

muriel, book author & international law student

Beste Erfahrung mal reinzuschnuppern in diese für mich total neue Welt. Perfekt um Leute kennen zu lernen, welche gleich denken, gleich weiterschauen und vor allem gleiches oder ähnliches erreichen wollen und können!! Super nice und immer aufgestelltes Team und mit super zentraler Location. Auch neben der offiziellen Lernstunden immer für Fragen und Antworten und Hilfe da! Danke Céline & Corina!

coco, vegan food lover & teacher in the making
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