Events Calendar

October 23 – December 22

Experience online presence with VR and learn full-stack web development

9-week course, online, VR, in English.

October 23 – December 22

Learn new skills and get a job!

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

Cost: 5800€, registration prepayment 10%

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

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.

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

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

Cost: 5800€, registration prepayment 10%

Early registration cost: €5300 (before December 8)

January 8 – March 9
Experience online presence with VR and learn full-stack web development
9-week course, online, VR, in English.

March 19 – May 18

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

Cost: 5800€, registration prepayment 10%

Early registration cost: €5300 (before February 19)

March 19 – May 18
Experience online presence with VR and learn full-stack web development
9-week course, online, VR, in English.

May 28 – July 27

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

Cost: 5800€, registration prepayment 10%

Early registration price: €5300 (before April 28)

May 28 – July 27
Experience online presence with VR and learn full-stack web development
9-week course, online, VR, in English.