Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs II (Coursera)

This course was developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and is taught by top-ranked faculty.
What You Will Learn

- How to take application designs and translate them into digital prototypes using HTML, CSS, and Javascript

- Analytically debug Javascript with the Chrome debugger

- Explain what digital literacy means for today’s interdisciplinary collaborators

Course 2 of 3 in the Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs Specialization.

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Making Stuff Happen with Javascript

This week, we’re going to dive into Javascript with a focus on user interfaces. We’ll do this with a Javascript library called JQuery that provides pre-built functions we can use to control web page. As with Course 1, I’ve got a layered set of resources for you to use in getting a handle on the basics. As before, try to find a minimum that gives you comfort with the fundamentals where you can work your way through the specifics of the case.

WEEK 2

Debugging Javascript

You’ve probably heard this from me before, but to debug is to code. Rather than seeing this week as a kind of exception or necessary nuisance, I hope you’ll immerse yourself in the process and mentality of analytical debugging. Personally, I’ve found that the process of analytical debugging has helped me think generally in a more disciplined and systematic way about what I’m trying to do and how I’m going to do it.

WEEK 3

Creating Your Web Application II

Now it’s time to take the prototype you created with HTML & CSS in Course 1 of the specialization and bring it to life with Javascript. How do you do that? Well, I think that once you figure out exactly what you want to have happen, you’ll find it’s relatively easy- so start there. Based on the user stories you selected and/or drafted, the UI comparables you reviewed, and your approach to the current prototype, what would make the interface better? More functional? Nothing will help you through your coding like a nice clear idea of what you’re trying to have happen.

Note 1: If you started here in the specialization, you’ll want to work from the options in the brief to build a prototype on JS Fiddle in HTML and CSS, and then layer in some Javascript. Note 2: If you’d like to start with a new concept from the brief for this course, that’s fine.