Intro to Front-End Development Workshop

* We care about you, your health, and your safety. We also still want to help you achieve your goals of changing your career and becoming a developer. As such, until further notice, all Grand Circus WORKSHOPS WILL BE OFFERED REMOTELY VIA ZOOM. Computers will be needed for all WORKSHOPS* Are you thinking about joining a GRAND CIRCUS FRONT-END BOOTCAMP [https://www.grandcircus.co/bootcamps/]? Want to build an interactive website, either as a career or just for fun? Then this is the class for you! Our INTRO TO FRONT-End DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP EXTENDS YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF HTML, CSS, and JAVASCRIPT, with a focus on FLEXBOX CSS and JAVASCRIPT. With the guidance of one of our highly qualified instructors, you’ll dive deeper into each of these languages to make an interactive and exciting website. You’ll leave the class with a deeper understanding of each language and insight into whether you want to take a front-end bootcamp. You’ll come out with a website project you can continue to develop for an online portfolio. STUDENT PREREQUISITES: The student should be comfortable operating their laptop: starting up, opening software, copying and pasting, opening a web browser, searching the web, going to a specific URL (web address), and navigating within a website. Additionally, the student should be able to: * Give a basic explanation of the roles of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in a web page * Add provided HTML tags to a document * Create new CSS rules following examples * Recognize variables and conditionals in JavaScript If you aren’t comfortable with any of these things, check out our FREE INTRO TO CODING [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/42910336973] workshops to get started on your web development journey! SOFTWARE TO INSTALL: Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/download [https://code.visualstudio.com/download].  GOOGLE CHROME is the preferred web browser for this workshop: https://www.google.com/chrome/ [https://www.google.com/chrome/] Are you a hospitality-industry professional looking to change careers? We are here for you. We now offer our Intro to Front-End Development [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/91698232883] and Intro to Java [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/91701829641] workshops over two consecutive Mondays so you don't have to give up a Saturday shift. Come learn with us on your dark night!  _DON'T FORGET TO BRING YOUR LAPTOP! THIS IS A HANDS-ON WORKSHOP. YOU'LL BE CODING RIGHT ALONG WITH THE INSTRUCTOR. PRETTY COOL, HUH?_ GETTING TO CLASS: Grand Circus is in THE BRODERICK TOWER, LOCATED AT 1570 WOODWARD AVE - please use the WOODWARD ENTRANCE (not the entrance off of Witherell) - you will see a set of gold doors with a Grand Circus sign in the window. From the lobby, take the elevator up to the 3rd floor, check in at the front desk and we'll direct you to your classroom. Click here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1NrW-cSOv9YMG5KeFVWZzllSjg/view?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_jdjaepq_2kr3Pj83mzAsh2-ulumUNFpjNHt7c6vbEKAdBwgY2mZJsrGd3nEva2S4VvW_6] to view the parking map - in addition to these options, there is also metered street parking and free parking at MGM, ~9 minute walk to Grand Circus.