Coding4Beginners: Course Overview

Week 1: Introduction to Web Development

• Lesson 1: Overview of Web Development
  • Description: Introduction to the roles of frontend and backend development.
  • Content: What is web development, browser/server architecture.
  • Exercises: Explore popular websites and identify frontend and backend elements.
• Lesson 2: Setting Up Your Environment
  • Description: Getting your computer ready for web development.
  • Content: Installing necessary software (IDE, browser, Git).
  • Exercises: Install Visual Studio Code, set up a GitHub account.

Week 2: HTML Basics

• Lesson 3: Introduction to HTML
  • Description: Basics of HTML and building blocks of web pages.
  • Content: Tags, elements, attributes, and document structure.
  • Exercises: Create a simple HTML page with headings, paragraphs, and links.
• Lesson 4: Advanced HTML
  • Description: Deeper into HTML features.
  • Content: Tables, forms, semantic HTML.
  • Exercises: Construct a form with inputs for a user profile.

Week 3: CSS Fundamentals

• Lesson 5: Styling with CSS
  • Description: Introduction to CSS and how it enhances HTML.
  • Content: Selectors, properties, values, and basic styling.
  • Exercises: Style the HTML page created in previous lessons.
• Lesson 6: Layouts and Responsiveness
  • Description: Advanced CSS techniques for responsive design.
  • Content: Flexbox, Grid, media queries.
  • Exercises: Make the user profile page responsive.

Week 4: JavaScript Essentials

• Lesson 7: Basics of JavaScript
  • Description: Fundamentals of JavaScript as a scripting language.
  • Content: Variables, data types, functions, DOM manipulation.
  • Exercises: Add interactive alerts to the HTML forms.
• Lesson 8: JavaScript – Events and Error Handling
  • Description: Handling user interactions and errors in JavaScript.
  • Content: Event listeners, error handling techniques.
  • Exercises: Create interactive forms that validate user input and display messages.

Week 5: Advanced JavaScript and APIs

• Lesson 9: Using APIs with JavaScript
  • Description: Fetching data from APIs.
  • Content: AJAX, JSON, Fetch API.
  • Exercises: Connect to a public API and display data on your page.
• Lesson 10: Asynchronous JavaScript
  • Description: Advanced JavaScript operations.
  • Content: Promises, async/await.
  • Exercises: Modify the API connection to use async/await.

Week 6: Python for Backend Development

• Lesson 11: Introduction to Python
  • Description: Basics of Python programming.
  • Content: Syntax, variables, data structures, loops, and conditionals.
  • Exercises: Write a Python script that reads and processes user data.
• Lesson 12: Building a Simple API with Django
  • Description: Creating backend services with Python.
  • Content: Flask framework, routing, HTTP methods.
  • Exercises: Develop a simple API to handle CRUD operations for user data.

Week 7: PHP for Backend Development

• Lesson 13: PHP Basics
  • Description: Introduction to PHP for server-side scripting.
  • Content: Syntax, variables, arrays, control structures.
  • Exercises: Create a simple PHP application that handles form submissions.
• Lesson 14: Integrating PHP with HTML
  • Description: Dynamic web pages with PHP.
  • Content: Embedding PHP in HTML, working with forms and data.
  • Exercises: Build a web page that displays submitted form data on the same page.

Week 8: Introduction to Databases

• Lesson 15: Working with Databases
  • Description: Fundamentals of using databases in web development.
  • Content: Database basics, SQL, integrating databases with Python/PHP.
  • Exercises: Set up a SQLite database and perform basic CRUD operations from PHP.

Week 9-10: Programming Languages

• Lesson 16: Introduction to C Programming
  • Description: Basics of C programming language.
  • Content: Syntax, data types, functions, pointers.
  • Exercises: Write simple C programs like a calculator.
• Lesson 17: Shell Scripting
  • Description: Automating tasks using shell scripts.
  • Content: Basic commands, script writing, automation concepts.
  • Exercises: Write a script to automate setup processes for a web project.

Week 11-12: Capstone Project

• Lessons 18-24: Building and Deploying a Complete Website
  • Description: Apply all learned skills to build a complete website.
  • Content: Planning, development, testing, and deployment of a web project.
  • Exercises: Each student develops their own project, with milestones for frontend, backend, and database integration.

This course plan should provide a solid foundation in web development, covering both the theoretical aspects and practical skills necessary to start building real-world web applications.