ekreative
What is
Front-End course?
Front-End is a course for teenagers 11-18 years old, the main purpose of which is to give everything needed to start developing web sites. We will go through the cycle of web product development several times: from idea, analysis, design, design to programming and release. In the course we study the basic tools of a web developer (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), create several modern web sites, write our own web game, study version control systems and learn how to deploy our projects
Benefits
For teenagers only
We are experts in teaching 13-19 year-olds. For many years we accumulated experience of teenage features to take it into account for educational programs and approaches. In dealing with parents, we take the teenager’s side
When it's a good thing to be into computers
Websites, their appearance, their mechanics — this is what a teenager communicates with every day when he is on the internet. Our task is to switch from surfing sites and social networks to creating them
Career Service
Level Beginner is for understanding the basics of the Front-End profession, and level Advanced is for obtaining professional knowledge and skills at the Junior specialist level. Information about the actual salaries of specialists is here
Programming
HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Profession relevancy
Front-End Developer is one of the most in-demand IT professions in markets with developing and developed economies. Massive job opportunities in IT companies, freelancing (remotely)
How to find the first job
Pre-acceleration (entrepreneur) module is a part of level Advanced: how to work freelance, in a company, or start own business; diving into a profession with the support of industry experts; project built-up and pitch for industry experts. Career service for level Advance graduates: internship and/or the first job
Structure of learning:
The Course consists of two parts: Hard skills (Front-End lessons – professional skills) and Soft skills (personal skills training – over-profession skills). We teach from scratch. Entrance test on level Beginner — to check logic and basic computer skills
Educational results
In case of successful completion of the course, the teenager develops such skills:
- Hard skills:
Level Beginner - the first portfolio of 4 web sites
- Basics of typography
- Basics of Color Theory
- Principles of web design
- Deploying the site on your domain
- Fundamentals of JavaScript programming
- Working with DOM elements
- Creating your own game on the web
- Working with Animations
- Basics of CSS Frameworks
- Working with HTML/CSS
- Working with API
- Creating Adaptive UI
- Hard skills:
Level Advanced - Creation of complex web applications
- Ability to lead a project from scratch to release. Project Management
- Experience of UX design and application prototyping
- Ability to write asynchronous code
- Basic server deployment
- Ability to layout complex designs. Grids, Flexboxes, CSS Tricks
- Mobile First principles
- Key and programmable animation in the web
- Working with Canvas and raster graphics
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Personal skills (Soft skills):
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Emotional intellect
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Self-identification
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Leadership
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Goal-setting
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Motivation and Discipline
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Time-management
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Self-presentation
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Communications — Conflict studies — Negotiations
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Art of public speaking
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Work with team and customer
Program created / verified
Vasyl Nagulyak
Oleksiy Gornostal
CloudWorks
Vladyslav Omelchenko
LumoSpark
Ihor Bondarchuk
GlobalLogic
Roman Balata
ekreative
Nick Rollinson
Mews
Yuriy Kabay
Levi9
Yevgen Viniychuk
Youshido
Nazar Galaiko
www.galaikonazar.com.ua
Roman Mordyuk
AVA.codes
Yaroslav Vygovsky
Falcrum/GlobalLogic
Nazar Barchuk
Nasdaq
Format
Training in groups
- Duration, level Beginner — 6 months (24 weeks/lessons)
- Studying in a group with an IT expert as a mentor — Front-End specialist, level Middle+; a group of teenagers and study manager support
- Tasks for midweek work: video tutorial (1-5 videos per week), tests to it, practical tasks, additional materials (industry articles, etc.). Checking tasks by the mentor. Communication in the chat
- Group online lessons with a hard skills mentor on weekends (Saturday or Sunday, 2 hours, online in zoom/google meet)
- Feedback for parents: 1. once a month the status of training in the program from the study manager 2. once every three months — feedback from the mentor
Works by our teenagers
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Results
Profession
The IT industry values knowledge and experience. Front-End course graduate gets:
- Career service, preparation for entering an IT faculty at a university (after level Beginner)
- Ability to work on Junior IT specialist level (after level Advanced)
- Professional portfolio of individual and team projects
- Upgrade Certificate of each level (Beginner, Advanced)
The first job
- The level Beginner provides a base and understanding of further development. The level Advanced is professional, so it allows our teenagers to work freelance
- The training program consists of team projects and their pitches for industry experts and HR managers. Ampli has a career service for finding internships and first jobs for our graduates
Community
We create a community of teenagers and industry experts.
- Project-based education = working in teams on own/team commercial and social projects. Management experience already in adolescence
- Ampli Talks webinars and social events for teenagers. Speeches by experts from IT, design, and business