Events Calendar

August 21 – October 13

Learn new skills and get a job!

8-week course, in-person, in English, full-time.

1 extra week of pre-course on campus or remotely

Cost: 5800€, registration prepayment 10%

3 weeks, 120 hours course to learn front-end development JavaScript and jQuery.

If you are interested in going further than building simple static webpages this course will introduce you to the world of JavaScript. You are going to learn the workhorse behind all the functionality of websites and web apps which is JavaScript.

The course consists of intensive introduction to programming with JavaScript with heavy practical part and DOM manipulation with jQuery. You are going to learn logic and algorithmic thinking and apply it to your projects. This course is for beginner programmers but it requires some prior knowledge of HTML, CSS and Bootstrap.

Contact us to talk about the course, your background and goals.

Upon completion of this course you will have strong understanding of writing JavaScript code and learn how to use jQuery to add user interactions and DOM manipulation for the front-end apps.

The course is in English, Monday through Friday 9:30-18:30.

So you are thinking about running your own business? Great! Now think about what social media you want to use to represent your brand and get new customers. Because not all of them are the same 🙂

How do you position yourself or your company in each of them? Which works better for you?

Let’s find out together in this workshop.

A weekend course designed for people who want to start building websites right away without coding.

From the fundamentals to the pro level in 2 days (12 hours of classwork in total)

Daily schedule:

10:00-13:00: classwork

13:00-14:00: a break

14:00-17:00: classwork

THIS COURSE IS IN ENGLISH.

UP TO 4 STUDENTS PER GROUP, PLEASE BOOK IN ADVANCE.

YOU WILL NEED TO BRING YOUR LAPTOP.

We will do such things as:

• choosing the best hosting provider for your website;
• installing WordPress automatically and manually;
• setting up your new WordPress website in a right way;
• understanding pages and posts;
• creating and using categories and tags;
• building structure and navigation;
• understanding and choosing themes and plugins;
• connecting to social services and Google Analytics;
• optimising and speeding up your website;
• setting up proper security and backup system;
• learning how to update core, themes, plugins;
• adding multilingual feature;
• setting up backup of your website;
• getting rid of junk content;
• fighting spam;
• SEO for WordPress;
• mailing lists and feedback.

AND ALSO HOW TO CONVERT WORDPRESS WEBSITE TO THE PROFESSIONAL ONLINE STORE WITH WOOCOMMERCE!

By choosing WooCommerce you can easily create and manage your own online store  in couple of hours and be amazed by how simple and powerful the administration is. It lets you sell anything — physical goods as well as digital downloadable content. At this workshop we will install WordPress, an e-commerce theme and WooCommerce plugin, set it up accordingly to your needs and deploy live letting you starting to sell right away:

• The minimum requirements for setting up an e-commerce website;
• How to choose e-commerce theme, installing theme;
• Installing WooCommerce plugin;
• Setting up the environment:
  • Products
  • Taxes
  • Checkout
  • Shipping
  • Payments
  • Discounts

• Uploading products content to your store;
• Customising your e-commerce website;
• Installing and setting up a secret weapon plugin for total customisation of your store. This plugin gives you access to almost every option which a hidden otherwise.

Beside that a lot of tips, hints and checklists for you to convert “Just another WordPress site” to a professionally looking website.

Learn how to build dynamic websites with JavaScript

This is an 80 hours in-person part-time course which teaches students the process of front-end development with JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Git, GitHub and command line. As the final project students are going to build a modern dynamic web application with current best practices.

What you will learn by the end of the course:

• Programming fundamentals with JavaScript, which is the core technology used in the latest front-end frameworks like Angular, React, etc…
• Using jQuery to manipulate the DOM
• Browser-based development
• Understanding of objet-oriented programming and general logic used in all of them
• Consuming data from external APIs and using it in your web application
• Building responsive, modern, dynamic web applications with current design patterns

Course details:

4 weeks

Monday–Friday, 10:00-14:00

In English

You’ll need your laptop

LEARN HOW TO BUILD DYNAMIC WEBSITES WITH JAVASCRIPT

This is an 80 hours in-person part-time course which teaches students the process of front-end development with JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Git, GitHub and command line. As the final project students are going to build a modern dynamic web application with current best practices.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN BY THE END OF THE COURSE:

• Programming fundamentals with JavaScript, which is the core technology used in the latest front-end frameworks like Angular, React, etc…
• Using jQuery to manipulate the DOM
• Browser-based development
• Understanding of objet-oriented programming and general logic used in all of them
• Consuming data from external APIs and using it in your web application
• Building responsive, modern, dynamic web applications with current design patterns

COURSE DETAILS:

7 WEEKS

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY, 15:00-19:00

IN ENGLISH

YOU’LL NEED YOUR LAPTOP

Before starting spending money on ads and promotion there is one crucial step – prepare a marketing plan.

We are going to review all the steps of creating a good marketing plan.

1: Snapshot of your company’s current situation
2: Define your target audience
3: Set your marketing objectives
4: Marketing communications strategies and tactics.
5: Budget.

Barcelona Code School is happy to host a free coding workshop for women, members of the LGBTQ community and for people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry. We are glad to have a new friend and partner and to support this honorable project.

The event is held by Codebar, a non-profit initiative that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running regular programming workshops. It originally started in the UK, but now it has also a chapter in Barcelona. The workshops are a great way for students to get help with coding in a safe welcoming place, but it is also a great way for them to informally be mentored by working developers.

It is for the students of all the levels and total beginners are very welcome.

FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

ATTEND CODEBAR AS A STUDENT. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU SHOULD DO BEFORE SIGNING UP?

Codebar is about getting people excited about programming. If you are an absolute beginner, feel free to join us. We will help you learn some basic coding skills as well as help you explore more resources. If you are signing up as a student, we suggest that you bring a laptop as it will be easier for you to carry on working on things after the workshops. If you don’t have one, send us a message so we can try and help out. Make sure that you RSVP either through the meetup page or on the link.

ATTEND CODEBAR AS A COACH. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU SHOULD DO BESIDES SIGNING UP?

Attending codebar as a coach is very easy and a lot of fun. Just make sure that you sign up either through the meetup page or athttps://codebar.io/barcelona. It would be great if you can read our coaching guide and if you have time, get familiar with the tutorials.

The tutorials are open source so if there is something that you want to improve open an issue on the GitHub repository or send a pull request. We don’t expect the coaches to be familiar with all the technologies and languages we have material on.

LEARN WORDPRESS IN BARCELONA

EVENT DETAILS

LEARN WORDPRESS IN BARCELONA

Our most popular Wordpress course in the late afternoon format. 4 classes of 3 hours each in the after-work hours.

Course consists of 4 workshops:

• September 12
• September 14
• September 19
• September 21

Each workshop starts at 19:00 and ends at 22:00

EVENT DETAILS

A website is your online business card, the first thing your customers see if they are trying to get in touch. Doesn’t matter if your business is big or small, if you are just trying to start some new project or improve your online presence – you do need a website.

And since currently 41% internet users are surfing from laptops and desktops, 54% are using mobile devices and 5% are using tablets you need to make sure that your website is responsive, i.e. looks and works same good on any of user devices.

This weekend intensive course will give you a solid hands-on introduction to HTML5 and CSS3 applied to the goals of creating a modern and responsive websites. We are going to work on 2 projects: a single page website and multipage website.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Create responsive websites with navigation on the same page or several pages
• Understand what responsiveness means and how to apply it
• Using CSS native Flexbox layout mode to prepare your website for different user devices
• Using Bootstrap for fast building responsive layout with grid
• Use Chrome Dev Tools for browser-based web development
• Have 2 finished responsive websites: a single page and a multipage
• Publish them to GitHub and have a shareable link with GitHub Pages

Course details:

Weekend, 10:00-14:30

In English

You’ll need your laptop

This after-school course is designed to introduce our youngest students to the programming with JavaScript. We are going to explore logic behind programming, algorithmic approach to solving problems, JavaScript basics and explore how we can use JavaScript to build working applications.

Along the way we will build several websites and see how JavaScript can convert them to applications – not just to display static content but also to act and respond to users actions.

During the course we are going to learn:

• Logic behind programming language
• JavaScript syntax
• Variables, functions, loops, arrays, objects, conditionals
• HTML
• CSS
• Game logic

The course starts on September 18 and ends on June 18 and is taught in English.

Students will need to bring their laptops.

Cost: 120€/month

Every Monday 18:00-19:30

10% discount if paid fully in advance (September-June)

After the proven success of our JavaScript course for kids 14-17 years old we are offering this after-school classes to all the young students interested in learning the most popular programming language of the web – JavaScript.

We are going to begin with fundamental and progress to building powerful and fully functional web apps with server, database and front-end frameworks such as React.js.

During the course we are going to learn:

• Logic behind programming language
• JavaScript syntax
• Variables, functions, loops, arrays, objects, conditionals
• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB
• jQuery
• HTML
• CSS
• React.js

The course starts on September 19 and ends on June 19 and is taught in English.

Students will need to bring their laptops.

Cost: 120€/month

Every Tuesday 18:00-19:30

10% discount if paid fully in advance (September-June)

This course is designed for the young makers and includes:

• Robotics
• Internet of things
• Electronics
• LavaScript
• Linux

We are going to explore the amazing world of robotics and electronics, build smart robots and program them with JavaScript, use tons of sensors to create useful robotic assistants for home and garden, and, of course, build a retro arcade machine!

The course starts on September 20 and ends on June 20 and is taught in English.

Students will need to bring their laptops.

Cost: 120€/month

Every Wednesday 18:00-19:30

10% discount if paid fully in advance (September-June)

A weekend course designed for people who want to learn JavaScript programming.

It is designed for the complete beginners wondering what is JavaScript? How does it work? How to write it? Why do we need it?

Daily schedule:

10:00-13:00: classwork

13:00-14:00: a break

14:00-17:00: classwork

THIS COURSE IS IN ENGLISH.

YOU WILL NEED TO BRING YOUR LAPTOP.

By the end of this course you will learn:

• JavaScript syntax;
• Programming logic and basic of algorithmic approach;
• Chrome Dev Tools;
• Console;
• Embedding JavaScript to HTML pages;
• Built-in methods;
• Variables and data types;
• Conditionals;
• Loops;
• Arrays;
• Objects;

You will build an interactive JavaScript game and publish it online to get a link for sharing with friends.

LEARN WORDPRESS IN BARCELONA

EVENT DETAILS

A website is your online business card, the first thing your customers see if they are trying to get in touch. Doesn’t matter if your business is big or small, if you are just trying to start some new project or improve your online presence – you do need a website.

And since currently 41% internet users are surfing from laptops and desktops, 54% are using mobile devices and 5% are using tablets you need to make sure that your website is responsive, i.e. looks and works same good on any of user devices.

This weekend intensive course will give you a solid hands-on introduction to HTML5 and CSS3 applied to the goals of creating a modern and responsive websites. We are going to work on 2 projects: a single page website and multipage website.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Create responsive websites with navigation on the same page or several pages
• Understand what responsiveness means and how to apply it
• Using CSS native Flexbox layout mode to prepare your website for different user devices
• Using Bootstrap for fast building responsive layout with grid
• Use Chrome Dev Tools for browser-based web development
• Have 2 finished responsive websites: a single page and a multipage
• Publish them to GitHub and have a shareable link with GitHub Pages

Course details:

Weekend, 10:00-14:30

In English

You’ll need your laptop

LEARN WORDPRESS IN BARCELONA

Our most popular Wordpress course in the late afternoon format. 4 classes of 3 hours each in the after-work hours.

Course consists of 4 workshops:

• October 19
• October 20
• October 26
• October 27

Each workshop starts at 19:00 and ends at 22:00

EVENT DETAILS

October 23 – December 22

Learn new skills and get a job!

9-week course, in-person, in English, full-time.

Including 1 week of prep work on campus

Cost: 5800€, registration prepayment 10%

Early registration: €5300 (before September 15)

A weekend course designed for people who want to start building websites right away without coding.

From the fundamentals to the pro level in 2 days (12 hours of classwork in total)

Daily schedule:

10:00-13:00: classwork

13:00-14:00: a break

14:00-17:00: classwork

THIS COURSE IS IN ENGLISH.

UP TO 4 STUDENTS PER GROUP, PLEASE BOOK IN ADVANCE.

YOU WILL NEED TO BRING YOUR LAPTOP.

We will do such things as:

• choosing the best hosting provider for your website;
• installing WordPress automatically and manually;
• setting up your new WordPress website in a right way;
• understanding pages and posts;
• creating and using categories and tags;
• building structure and navigation;
• understanding and choosing themes and plugins;
• connecting to social services and Google Analytics;
• optimising and speeding up your website;
• setting up proper security and backup system;
• learning how to update core, themes, plugins;
• adding multilingual feature;
• setting up backup of your website;
• getting rid of junk content;
• fighting spam;
• SEO for WordPress;
• mailing lists and feedback.

AND ALSO HOW TO CONVERT WORDPRESS WEBSITE TO THE PROFESSIONAL ONLINE STORE WITH WOOCOMMERCE!

By choosing WooCommerce you can easily create and manage your own online store  in couple of hours and be amazed by how simple and powerful the administration is. It lets you sell anything — physical goods as well as digital downloadable content. At this workshop we will install WordPress, an e-commerce theme and WooCommerce plugin, set it up accordingly to your needs and deploy live letting you starting to sell right away:

• The minimum requirements for setting up an e-commerce website;
• How to choose e-commerce theme, installing theme;
• Installing WooCommerce plugin;
• Setting up the environment:
  • Products
  • Taxes
  • Checkout
  • Shipping
  • Payments
  • Discounts

• Uploading products content to your store;
• Customising your e-commerce website;
• Installing and setting up a secret weapon plugin for total customisation of your store. This plugin gives you access to almost every option which a hidden otherwise.

Beside that a lot of tips, hints and checklists for you to convert “Just another WordPress site” to a professionally looking website.

This weekend workshop is designed for people interested in learning about React.js.

React.js is an open-source JavaScript library for building user interfaces created by Facebook.

It aims primarily to provide speed, simplicity and scalability. React processes only user interfaces in applications. It is intended for the single-page application sending and getting data without refreshing a page with modular approach.

During this workshop we are going to build a ToDo application with React.

Daily schedule:

10:00-13:00: classwork

13:00-14:00: a break

14:00-17:00: classwork

THIS COURSE IS IN ENGLISH.

YOU WILL NEED TO BRING YOUR LAPTOP.

By the end of this course you will learn:

• React logic and modular approach;
• JSX syntax;
• React components;
• Pass data using JSX;
• State;
• Node environment;
• Working with Git and GitHub;
• React debugging.

You will build a ToDo app working in the browser with React.js

LEARN WORDPRESS IN BARCELONA

EVENT DETAILS

LEARN WORDPRESS IN BARCELONA

Our most popular Wordpress course in the late afternoon format. 4 classes of 3 hours each in the after-work hours.

Course consists of 4 workshops:

• November 16
• November 17
• November 23
• November 24

Each workshop starts at 19:00 and ends at 22:00

EVENT DETAILS

A website is your online business card, the first thing your customers see if they are trying to get in touch. Doesn’t matter if your business is big or small, if you are just trying to start some new project or improve your online presence – you do need a website.

And since currently 41% internet users are surfing from laptops and desktops, 54% are using mobile devices and 5% are using tablets you need to make sure that your website is responsive, i.e. looks and works same good on any of user devices.

This weekend intensive course will give you a solid hands-on introduction to HTML5 and CSS3 applied to the goals of creating a modern and responsive websites. We are going to work on 2 projects: a single page website and multipage website.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Create responsive websites with navigation on the same page or several pages
• Understand what responsiveness means and how to apply it
• Using CSS native Flexbox layout mode to prepare your website for different user devices
• Using Bootstrap for fast building responsive layout with grid
• Use Chrome Dev Tools for browser-based web development
• Have 2 finished responsive websites: a single page and a multipage
• Publish them to GitHub and have a shareable link with GitHub Pages

Course details:

Weekend, 10:00-14:30

In English

You’ll need your laptop

A weekend course designed for people who want to start building websites right away without coding.

From the fundamentals to the pro level in 2 days (12 hours of classwork in total)

Daily schedule:

10:00-13:00: classwork

13:00-14:00: a break

14:00-17:00: classwork

THIS COURSE IS IN ENGLISH.

UP TO 4 STUDENTS PER GROUP, PLEASE BOOK IN ADVANCE.

YOU WILL NEED TO BRING YOUR LAPTOP.

We will do such things as:

• choosing the best hosting provider for your website;
• installing WordPress automatically and manually;
• setting up your new WordPress website in a right way;
• understanding pages and posts;
• creating and using categories and tags;
• building structure and navigation;
• understanding and choosing themes and plugins;
• connecting to social services and Google Analytics;
• optimising and speeding up your website;
• setting up proper security and backup system;
• learning how to update core, themes, plugins;
• adding multilingual feature;
• setting up backup of your website;
• getting rid of junk content;
• fighting spam;
• SEO for WordPress;
• mailing lists and feedback.

AND ALSO HOW TO CONVERT WORDPRESS WEBSITE TO THE PROFESSIONAL ONLINE STORE WITH WOOCOMMERCE!

By choosing WooCommerce you can easily create and manage your own online store  in couple of hours and be amazed by how simple and powerful the administration is. It lets you sell anything — physical goods as well as digital downloadable content. At this workshop we will install WordPress, an e-commerce theme and WooCommerce plugin, set it up accordingly to your needs and deploy live letting you starting to sell right away:

• The minimum requirements for setting up an e-commerce website;
• How to choose e-commerce theme, installing theme;
• Installing WooCommerce plugin;
• Setting up the environment:
  • Products
  • Taxes
  • Checkout
  • Shipping
  • Payments
  • Discounts

• Uploading products content to your store;
• Customising your e-commerce website;
• Installing and setting up a secret weapon plugin for total customisation of your store. This plugin gives you access to almost every option which a hidden otherwise.

Beside that a lot of tips, hints and checklists for you to convert “Just another WordPress site” to a professionally looking website.

LEARN WORDPRESS IN BARCELONA

EVENT DETAILS

This is a weekend workshop designed aimed at introduction to Meteor.js which is an open-source full-stack isomorphic JavaScript framework useful for fast developing and prototyping full-stack web and mobile apps. Meteor.js is written using Node.js and works with MongoDB. We are going to use Meteor.js together with React.js.

The goal of this workshop is to build a full-stack CRUD application.

Daily schedule:

10:00-13:00: classwork

13:00-14:00: a break

14:00-17:00: classwork

THIS COURSE IS IN ENGLISH.

YOU WILL NEED TO BRING YOUR LAPTOP.

By the end of this course you will learn:

• How to set up the environment for Meteor.js development;
• React.js basics and logic;
• Components and modular approach;
• JSX syntax;
• Getting, storing and returning persistent data within your app;
• Debugging;
• Deployment.

As a result you will build a full-stack app working in the browser and on mobile devices.

Note: for mobile app deployment we recommend to bring Mac laptops.

A website is your online business card, the first thing your customers see if they are trying to get in touch. Doesn’t matter if your business is big or small, if you are just trying to start some new project or improve your online presence – you do need a website.

And since currently 41% internet users are surfing from laptops and desktops, 54% are using mobile devices and 5% are using tablets you need to make sure that your website is responsive, i.e. looks and works same good on any of user devices.

This weekend intensive course will give you a solid hands-on introduction to HTML5 and CSS3 applied to the goals of creating a modern and responsive websites. We are going to work on 2 projects: a single page website and multipage website.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Create responsive websites with navigation on the same page or several pages
• Understand what responsiveness means and how to apply it
• Using CSS native Flexbox layout mode to prepare your website for different user devices
• Using Bootstrap for fast building responsive layout with grid
• Use Chrome Dev Tools for browser-based web development
• Have 2 finished responsive websites: a single page and a multipage
• Publish them to GitHub and have a shareable link with GitHub Pages

Course details:

Weekend, 10:00-14:30

In English

You’ll need your laptop

January 8 – March 9

Learn new skills and get a job!

9-week course, in-person, in English, full-time.

Including 1 week of prep work on campus or remotely

Cost: 5800€, registration prepayment 10%

Early registration: €5300 (before December 8)

March 19 – May 18

Learn new skills and get a job!

9-week course, in-person, in English, full-time.

Including 1 week of prep work on campus or remotely

Cost: 5800€, registration prepayment 10%

Early registration: €5300 (before February 19)