Written by: Rebecca McCain and Morgan Reno
On Monday, October 17th Graphic Communications had the pleasure of hosting a Crash Course on jQuery taught by The Iron Yard. The Iron Yard is an educational program for front-end and back-end web development. They are a notable company in the web industry that began in Greenville, but now have locations all over the country. Their services include intensive 12 week code school classes for a variety of web applications, corporate training, and free crash courses. The Advanced Web Independent Study worked with The Iron Yard to host one of their crash courses in Godfrey. The course was taught by Jeremiah Adkins and Andrew McIntee who are both product designers for The Iron Yard.
Our crash course was a little different from the typical courses the Iron Yard teaches. They usually stick to basic coding languages, such as HTML and CSS and the courses are taught to individuals who know very little about coding. Since our Independent study already had a firm knowledge in these languages, we wanted to go a little more in depth and learn about jQuery, which adds functionality to websites. We invited anyone wanting to learn more about jQuery to attend, but we recommended they have previous knowledge of HTML and CSS so they could follow along with the lesson. We ended up with a good turnout of about 15 people.
During the crash course, we build a dragon budget calculator as pictured. Through Codepen, the instructors provided us with the HTML and CSS for the calculator, so all we needed to do was use jQuery to make the calculator actually function. The instructors went through step-by-step how to write the code and we were able to follow along by creating the code on our own computers. We were exposed to many prominent portions of jQuery coding including variables (var), console.log which we used to test the code during the process of writing, how to simple calculations, and how to display the results of calculations to the user. If you wish to see the code we wrote, you can check it out on Codepen here.
To conclude the Crash Course, The Iron Yard provided those in attendance with many resources to continue learning the more advanced languages like JavaScript, Java, and Ruby. Overall, the course was a great opportunity to learn not only some coding principles, but to see how an experienced programmer approaches a project.
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