Make your own App

  • English
  • Online/Distance
  • 7 weeks
  • 70 €, Discounts available

Tackle almost any idea you might have and build an app that fulfills your needs

About this course

Using motivational videos, introductory sections, an interactive code editor, challenges and peer review throughout this course you will develop a working chat app.

While doing so you can earn credits and points, receive badges and fulfill achievements in order to be able to see and compare your progress with other students. Starting with simple HTML content and ordinary CSS rules you will gradually improve your app and add increasing interaction within every week using JavaScript and JQuery.

What you will learn

  • HTML, CSS and JavaScript basics
  • How to structure HTML code, including media elements, referencing external resources and separate CSS styles from HTML code
  • How to make web apps interactive
  • How to use advanced CSS properties to create captivating apps and understand and apply basic programming concepts like loops and arrays
  • Advanced JavaScript concepts and a basic introduction to web-APIs, JSON and AJAX
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Why this program?

After completing this course you’ll be able to tackle almost any idea you might have and build an app that fulfills your needs.

Details

  • Provider: edX
  • Certificate: After successful completion of the final exam, participants will receive a certificate from the Technical University of Munich.
  • Format: Online, self-paced
  • Language: English
  • Program Fee: 70 €
  • Access Requirements: No previous knowledge required.
  • Target group: People who are keenly interested in knowing how to develop their own App.
  • Duration: 7 weeks

*Based on our experience, the German tax benefits help many of our participants to self-finance their education as these can be worth of up to 50% of tuition fees and program related travel costs. Please, consult your personal tax advisor for more details. For participants of our programs residing outside Germany this might be applicable, please check the situation with the local tax authorities in your country of residence.

TESTIMONIALS

Content

Week 1

We provide an instruction to the notation and concept of the H yper- T ext- M arkup- L anguage (HTML) and teach you the basics of CSS allowing you to adapt the style and appearance of your HTML code.

Week 2

We educate you on structuring HTML code , including media elements , referencing external resources and teach you how to separate CSS styles from HTML code , continue styling your code and learn more about the box model , since your code has become more mature.

Week 3

We deepen your understanding of HTML and CSS by applying advanced properties, like flexbox and pseudo elements.

Week 4

We will teach you how to make web apps interactive and lay the foundation for the following sections by introducing JavaScript.

Week 5

We will dive deeper into JavaScript and its mechanisms and get to understand and apply basic programming concepts like loops and conditions.

Week 6

We will improve the apps performance by applying advanced JavaScript concepts and give you an idea about which technologies would be a good complement to those learned in this course.

Exercises

Each week includes several problems that you should solve, including quizzes as well as a peer review challenge you should solve and will then grade four of your fellow learners.
Additionally, you will have to write source code in the three languages covered in an interactive code editor that provides you with instant feedback and enables you to earn several badges and achievements.

PRICING MODELS AND PACKAGES

Verified track

  • Price: 70 €
  • Access to course material: unlimited
  • Shareable certificate upon completion: included
  • Graded assignments and exams: included

Audit-Track

  • Free
  • Access to course material: limited
  • Shareable certificate upon completition: not included
  • Graded assignments and exams: not included

LECTURERS

  • Klaus Bengler, Professor of Ergonomics, Technical University of Munich
  • Lorenz Prasch, Research Associate, Technical University of Munich
  • Markus Zimmermann, Head of Interaction Design
  • Antonia Conti-Kufner, Research Associate, Technical University of Munich
  • Peter Eliseenkov, Teaching Assistant, Technical University of Munich
  • Nicolas Härtwig, Teaching Assistant, Technical University of Munich
  • Gideon Kloss, Teaching Assistant, Technical University of Munich
  • Moritz Rettinger, Teaching Assistant, Technical University of Munich
  • Christina Rosenmöller, Teaching Assistant, Technical University of Munich
  • David Schopf, Dipl. Psych., Teaching Assistant, Technical University of Munich
  • Kristina Strobl, Teaching Assistant, Technical University of Munich
  • Tim Westhoff, Student, Technical University of Munich
  • Niklas Lütteken, Web Developer, Technical University of Munich

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