Front-end development Certification

Angular
CSS
Html
JavaScript
Project work with an experienced mentor

ENROLL

Goal of this certification path

This course will prepare you for a full-time salary job in software development performing front-end development.

A good candidate for this program is anyone that has begun to take courses in front-end development skills such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript or Angular and want to take it to the professional level.

Existing employed developers that want to upskill to the latest front-end technology are also welcome.

Beginners are welcome to take our courses and try them out before enrolling in this certification path.

Front-end development Certification

Combine this track with the Nexul Academy courses in Html & Css, JavaScript and Angular. Content lectures are included in each separate course you enroll in, along with a meeting schedule. You must already know Git OR enroll in our Git course. This track is certified by the Missouri Department of Higher Education as a 1-year certificate program.

During class meeting times you can ask questions on course content and also get advice and mentor help working on a team project. To attain the certificate you must complete a project or feature using the course content topics.

Courses

These courses are required to complete the front-end program.

Html and CSS Introduction

Ready to jump into web page development?

This course is for absolute beginners to learn how to get started in creating web pages and dissect how any page on the internet works.

Html defines the content of a page and CSS the appearance of the content.

The key areas this course covers include:

  • creating a page
  • run and inspect any page
  • basic CSS selectors to define which content to be styled
  • how to use basic style features such as text size and color
  • define spacing around items

Classroom bundle includes perpetual access to course content and meets at Nexul Academy.

JavaScript Introduction

Ready to enhance your web development skills?

JavaScript is a programming language that makes web pages more interactive and functional. Learning JavaScript is the common base on which all the popular frameworks like Angular, React, Vue and more are based.

Here are the essential topics we'll cover,

  • Variables
  • Comparing Equality
  • String Concatenation
  • Math Operators
  • Functions & Callbacks
  • Objects with JSON

Classroom bundle includes perpetual access to course content and meets at Nexul Academy. Min 5 students required for a custom location or schedule (travel fees may apply).

Angular Fundamentals

Build and organize larger applications with Angular

Angular is a Single Page App (SPA) framework by Google, used by Google for all of their major websites. Angular natively uses TypeScript as the syntax, which is an extension of JavaScript.

This course will cover,

  • custom components
  • class members (fields, properties, methods)
  • classic and signal based inputs and outputs
  • services (for REST Api calls)
  • debugging Angular code
  • pipes to transform data
  • route handling to support multiple user pages in a SPA.
  • reactive forms
  • UI design frameworks, with a focus on Material Design
Git for Beginners

Learn all the basic concepts such as 'commit', 'branch', 'merge', 'pull', 'push' and how to use git in a team environment using 'Git Flow'

This course is packaged with mentoring in Nexul Academy full-stack, front-end, and back-end tracks. Occasionally workshops may be found listed below.

Once you enroll

The following resources are not instruction, but help orient a student to the program.

1: Project Team and Schedule
picking a team and project
2: Team Responsibilities
following the Agile process
3: Capstone Presentation
wrapping up the project