Programming can be hard. It is a skill that is mostly learned through practice after you have learned the basic syntax of a programming language.

The problem with learning how to program is that learning the syntax and how to take that syntax to solve a problem are two separate skills.

This class will be different than most classes, in that the skill to program is taught after the basic programming syntax is learned and not before. So the majority of lessons will be taking the basic programming syntax learned to slowly develop the thought process of how to take a complex problem and break it apart into components (essentials of programming).

These "components" will identify the sections of a program we will create together over the 6 weeks of this course.

We will use the JavaScript programming language since it is the most widely used programming language on the web in order to teach students how to program. Upon completion of this class, students will have created a robust application (Grades Calculation Project) using programming standard practices which can be applied to any programming language on any platform.

Applicable Job Roles: UI Developer, Web Designer, Web developer, Analyst, Software Engineer

• Introducing JavaScript
• Structure of a web page
• Creating basic statements
• Concept of storing data: variables
• How to display our data: document.write
• Programming in the browser

• Types of variables
• Literal values and variables
• Operators
• Control structures
• Arrays overview
• Functions: Combining our statements
• Conditional statements: if and switch

• What is debugging?
• Common tools on the web
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Starting our Program: Grades Calculation Project
• Defining the goals of the program

• Step 1: Storing variables, calculating and displaying values
• Step 2: Getting response from user
• Step 3: Adding conditional statements (switch statements)
• Debugging our code
• Weekly Project: Grade Calculation Project

• Step 4:Adding nested conditional statements (switch and if statements)
• Step 5: Integrating looping structures
• Step 6: Refining our program
• Debugging our code
• Weekly Project: Grade Calculation Project cont.

• Step 7: Improving efficiency with functions
• Step 8: Modularizing our program (.js files)
• What are objects?
• Step 9: Refining our code (objects)
• Debugging our code
• Weekly Project: Grade Calculation Project cont.
• What’s next?