Why this course exists

I didn’t study computer science. I studied Agricultural Economics at the University of Ibadan.

During the holidays, I taught myself HTML on W3Schools.

Then, during a bank internship, I realised I wanted to build the software, not just use it.

In December 2021, I joined Squad, the payment gateway from GTCO’s HabariPay, as a frontend engineer. Today I’m a senior frontend engineer.

I’m telling you this because a lot of people think coding is only for people with a computer science degree. It isn’t. You need curiosity, practice, and someone to explain how things work.

That’s what this course is for.

What you’ll do

We start from zero. First, how the web works: what really happens when you type an address and a page appears. Then HTML, CSS and JavaScript, one step at a time.

Early on, you’ll put your own page on the internet. Every lesson after that makes it better. By the end, you’ll have a website you built yourself, and you’ll understand the ideas that frameworks like React are built on.

What you need

• A computer (a laptop or desktop works best).
• A web browser.
• Some time each week.

You don’t need to have written code before. You don’t need to be good at maths.

Let’s start.

Tolu