Concise & practical for beginners. Learn to code by building a bot that sends crypto price alerts to your phone!
What you'll learn
Practical project-based learning: Learn to code from scratch while building a program that can send cryptocurrency price alerts to your phone
Concise and dynamic starter course to build your initial confidence and conceptual understanding before you consider investing in longer courses
Learn practical skills to become a self-sufficient developer who can independently learn new things, fix code and build projects (with third party services)
jаvascript Fundamentals: console, variables, arithmetic, functions, if/else, arrays, objects, loops, strings, asynchronous programming, promises, etcetc
NodeJS Fundamentals: setting up, node package manage, installing and importing dependencies
Web scraping (including overview of HTML and CSS, and Document Object Model (DOM))
How to effectively research code issues and solutions to solve your code problems
How to leverage off third party services and APIs to build sophisticated projects (e.g. integrating Twilio API to send text messages)
Coding concepts taught through simple and clean animations
Requirements
NO programming experience required - learn from scratch!
Very basic maths ability (only addition and subtraction)
Computer (with internet) (any operating system is fine)
Description
Short, concise and fully hands-on, this course will teach you how to code in both jаvascript and NodeJS, while building a cool crypto-based project that may potentially lead you to make money.
Highly suitable for any absolute beginners or cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
How is this course different from the other online courses?
Strong focus on helping you become a self-sufficient developer. In this course, you won't just learn to code for the sake of coding. You will learn effective research tips and how to integrate third party services so that you can independently learn and build your own projects.
Unique cryptocurrency perspective - build coding skills that are relevant to a hot emerging technology.
Actually build a useful project (not just a basic flash game or calculator) that can potentially add value to your life.
Double overview of jаvascript and NodeJS (many courses only just cover one of them).
Simple and clean animations to explain concepts. Not just a plain bulletpoint lecture.
Low time investment. Max 90 minutes. This course can help you consider whether to invest further in other courses.
Course structure
This course has three parts
Part One
Why learn jаvascript?
How to get things set up (consoles and code editors)
How to use the console in your browser
Fundamentals: variables, comments and functions
Part Two
Web scraping (i.e. a technique to extract data from a website so that you can use the website data in your programs)
Website structure (HTML, CSS and Document Object Model (DOM))
Scraping crypto prices from the CoinMarketCap website
Debugging and research techniques
Fundamentals: conditional logic (if/else), asynchronous programming, objects, arrays and loops.
End outcome: Your first program (runs in the browser) that can automatically retrieve cryptocurrency prices without you have to manually search them up!
Part Three
Upgrading and cleaning up the program from Part Two
NodeJS (installation and how to use it)
Fundamentals: dependencies/libraries and APIs
Setting up and connecting to Twilio API (with free trial account) to automatically send text messages to your phone
End outcome: A NodeJS program that can automatically retrieve cryptocurrency prices and notify you via SMS text whenever one of the prices hits a certain threshold!
Who this course is for
Beginners who have no or only little jаvascript (or any coding) experience
Beginners who want to try out a short, practical and productive coding course before considering to invest further in their coding education
Beginners who want to learn coding through a useful project (not just a simple game or calculator etc) rather than learning abstract concepts/theory without practical context
Beginners who want to learn to BUILD projects rather than just coding for the sake of coding
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts who want to build an automated crypto price alert system from scratch
Intermediate or Advanced jаvascript/NodeJS developers who want to learn how to integrate Twilio services
Everyone interested in learning jаvascript and all about how it works
Everyone interested in cryptocurrency
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