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FastStart Web Development provides the tools, knowledge, and capability to participants to use web technologies to enhance their entrepreneurial journey and grow their ideas into successful and sustainable businesses. You don't have to be a computer scientist! FastStart Web Development is appropriate for complete beginners.

Check out FastStart Cloud Computing to learn how to use cloud architecture to grow ideas into successful and sustainable businesses.

Before you start your application, please take time to carefully consider the programme and the commitment required.  Do you have the time and focus to attend the required elements and work on an idea in between, perhaps with a team of other participants?

We are looking for individuals who are committed to the programme in the short term and to putting in serious work on a web development project. During the programme, we anticipate you will need to invest approximately 4 hours per week outside of workshops.

We anticipate it will take 30 minutes to an hour to think through and prepare your answers to the application questions.

Overview

Over 8 weeks during the semester, FastStart Web Development aims to empower individuals to enhance their own technical knowledge and begin to think about how website applications can be used to create new products or services.

Individuals will be expected to attend weekly workshops, listen to entrepreneurial speakers, pitch regularly and engage with alumni mentors.  Throughout FastStart, individuals will need to demonstrate commitment and making progress with their idea. It is anticipated not all ideas will prove viable, however participants will continue to learn through the process and be supported to form teams around viable ideas where relevant. 

By the end of the FastStart Web Development programme, you will be able to:​

• Explain how web technologies can be used to create products or services
• Explain how a website interface is designed and how website data is displayed
• Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to code a React.js web application
• Develop a web concept, which could be turned into a prototype
• Design and develop a dynamic website, using the React.js web framework

Programme details

There will be 8 weeks of weekly sessions, commencing in Week 2 of the academic calendar.  Four sessions prior to Independent Learning Week and four sessions after. Sessions commence in Week 2 with final sessions during Week 10.

• Workshops - Wednesdays 18:00-19:30 GMT (Commencing on Wednesday 22 September, with a break on 20 October for Independent Learning Week. Final session 17 November.)
• Entrepreneurial Speaker Series - Thursdays 18:00-19:30 GMT (Commencing on Thursday 23 September, with a break on 21 October for Independent Learning Week. Final session 18 November.)
• Pitch with pizza - Fridays 13:00-14:00 GMT (Commencing on Friday 24 September, with a break on 22 October for Independent Learning Week. Final session 19 November.)

Commitment required

• Attend weekly workshops online​
• Spend time between workshops completing coding exercises and reading technical resources​
• Submit weekly log of what you have done and the progress you are making
• Attend pitch with pizza events, in person as often as you can
• Attend entrepreneurial speaker events, online or in person