Software development skills: Front-end

Course contents

This course aims to give students a chance to create unique projects with a hands-on approach. The course guides students to find their interest in software engineering skills and to help each student find their desired path in software developing in the future. There are also several other Software Development Skill courses available on different topics.

The goal in this course is to make a responsive webpage using html, CSS and a little bit of JavaScript. These are the basic tools to make today’s web-frontend. Students may use Bootstrap or animations in addition. The project focuses only on the layout, styles and the overall structure of the page.

Aims

1. Develop practical skills for software development
2. Learn the best practices and approaches of software development
3. Develop the skilled expected in industry to work as a software developer.

Study materials

Available online in Moodle.

Prerequisites

To participate on this course you need to know how to program, and you should also have taken a course on user interfaces, e.g. LUT course User Interfaces and Usability.

Teaching methods

Self-study: Reading 14 h, practice work 20h, Project assignment 47 h, Totally 81 h.

Student must do the following to pass the course:

• Go through the given materials (series of videos) and provide a reflection in learning diary.
• Make a self-reflecting learning diary. (What did you learn, what problems you faced and how did you overcome them.)
• Create a similar project to the one that you’ve been provided with in the learning materials.
• Post everything in a Git repository and present the course work.
• Give feedback on the course (mandatory).

Course schedule

You can register for this course anytime and start doing this course as soon as the registration process is completed and you get a notification that you have been added to the course at LUT Moodle. Once you start working on the course, you can complete the course on your own pace during a 60 day period.

Assessment scale and assessment methods

Pass/Fail, Learning Diary 40 %, Final project 60 %

More information in the LUT University study guide.

You can get a digital badge after completing this course.

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