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Advanced CSS + Javascript

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Course

The front-end level-up. Learn how to create fancy animations, use new code libraries and fetch data.

Purchase this course for $299

Or... get a discount by building a bundle with our learning paths!

A flexible, 4-week online course that teaches you advanced front-end skills. Learn to create fancy animations, use new code libraries and grab data from other websites with APIs and Ajax.

It's designed for people comfortable with HTML, CSS and beginner level Javascript and want to delve a bit deeper.

This is a great next step for students who have already completed our Javascript for Designers course.

What you’ll learn

Drawing and animating SVGs to add background effects and shape morphing

Using Ajax to get content from sites like Giphy to display on our own website

How to work with open-source code libraries and plugins from GitHub

The latest and greatest in modern CSS + Javascript to make our code more elegant and future-proofed

Getting advanced with scrolling events to create tasteful parallax effects

How to identify and investigate performance issues to help your site run smoothly and speedily

What you’ll get

14 hours of video lessons – Practical, go-at-your-own pace learning

Access the community – Join our Slack and connect with thousands of SuperHi students and alumni

Continued help – Help from our expert teachers and educators with years of experience in the industry

Real world projects – Projects and code that you can alter and remix to add to your own sites and portfolio

Resources – Resources to get you started and going post-course

Who this course is for

Anyone who already has some front-end experience and is looking to level up on Javascript and CSS knowledge. This would be a definite next step if you’re keen to build impressive functionality and tackle more complex code problems. If you aren't yet comfortable coding with CSS and Javascript, we recommend that you first take our Foundation HTML, CSS + JS course and Javascript for Designers course.

Most of our students work in the creative industries – designers, strategists and copywriters are the most common jobs amongst our students – but you can work in any industry to join the course.

What you’ll need

A computer (Windows, Mac or Linux) with the latest version of Chrome installed and a broadband internet connection. That’s it!

Want to try our teaching before signing up? Join our free 'Plan, Design + Code Your First Website' course!

Syllabus

Chapter 1

FIFTY Festival

For our first project, we will build a website for FIFTY Festival, which uses scrolling and animation effects in Javascript, along with flexbox and CSS blending effects.

Chapter 2

Jiffy

In our second project, we'll build a site that lets us search for Gifs using Giphy’s API. We’ll talk about APIs and why they’re so great and how we can use Ajax to fetch data. We’ll also explore some new CSS Grid layout and flexbox tricks.

Chapter 3

Super Shapes

Super Shapes explores SVG and how to use them to create motion graphics for the web. We’ll look at creating the shapes and animating them individually using Javascript. We’ll also dive into grids and how we can use a CSS toolkit to write minimal CSS.

Chapter 4

Good Times

Good Times is a one day design event in Melbourne. This project uses responsive 12 column grid layouts, typographic effects, scrolling animations, parallax tilts, horizontal scrolling and Stripe for accepting payments.

Your instructors

Our instructors have decades of professional experience, have spoken at international conferences and have won countless web design awards.

Rik Lomas

Rik (he/him) is a Mancunian coder, teacher and CEO of SuperHi. He was the co-founder of Steer (a code school in London) and has taught several thousand people to code. He is a bit too old to be posting memes on our social media and recently featured as a Sour Patch Kid in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.

Lawrence Gosset

Lawrence is a full-stack web developer and teacher who has also taught over a thousand people how to code. He was previously an instructor at London code school Steer.

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FAQs

If you're comfortable working with a computer, then yes!

Learning new and improving your existing skills is about being patient with yourself, building up your knowledge, developing confidence through practice, and with time. We've seen our students around the world do it, and so can you.

Our beginner courses are designed for people new to the subjects. They grow your understanding so you grasp everything you need to start applying your new skills and will also give you a path to dig deeper if you want.

Our teaching style is practical and straightforward and you'll have support from our expert instructors and community for as long as you need.

Still not sure if learning to code is right for you? Take our free Plan, Design + Code Your First Website course or dive into our First Steps to Code guide.

We have quite a lot of students that join us and have done some coding before but want to build up confidence and techniques.

In order to help get you where you'd like to be, have a look at the sites below to see which course you can make from scratch, without any help at all.

Baker & Brown – If you struggle to make this website from scratch, don't worry! We recommend you start off with our Foundation, HTML, CSS + Javascript course.

Jenna Buchholz – If you struggle to make this website from scratch, it's all good! We recommend you start off with our Javascript for Designers course.

Super Shapes – If you struggle to make this website from scratch, have no fear! We recommend you start off with our Advanced CSS + Javascript course.

All of our courses are unlocked and available for students to start their learning and go at their own pace. We do have a suggested weekly structure for some courses, which helps some students stay on track. However, you're definitely free to jump ahead or take as long as you need!

As soon as you checkout and pay, you'll have all the courses you paid for, in your student dashboard available to you immediately. If you're busy and can't start right away - no worries, you can pick it back up later.

At SuperHi, we provide online courses designed for creatives and made for everyone. Take a course on Code, Design, or Project Management 😊

The proof is in the pudding! Our students go on to make their own beautiful sites and some of their stunning work have won digital design awards. Take a look at our Hall of Fame to see some of the sites our students have built, many of which had only taken our Foundation course!

If you're a SuperHi student or alumni and would like to submit your project to be included in our Hall of Fame, please feel free to submit it here.

Yes, we do! All you'd need to do is send the links to your completed projects over to hi@superhi.com at the end of your course. We will review them, provide feedback if necessary, and then issue your certificate!

All our course videos are taught using the SuperHi Editor, but you'll be able to apply everything you'll learn to a code editor of your choice. Many students go on to use other code editors, for example, if their workplace has an existing standard.

Our SuperHi Editor is designed with many smart features to help avoid wasted time looking for things like a typo or missing bracket (which is why we made it!), but the same code concepts apply to any editor.

Yes! You can use your own custom third-party domains and connect them to your sites built with our SuperHi Editor. Additionally, all SuperHi sites come with free SSL Certificates for added protection.

Here's more information on how to connect a third-party domain