SuperHi is an online school and worldwide community of creative people learning to code, together. The world of coding can be an incredibly confusing one. It’s a minefield of symbols and terminology with what feels like an infinite pool of knowledge you’re expected to learn, however, SuperHi explains this intimidating world in manageable online courses.
SuperHi’s students are international and come from a variety of creative industries. The course provides them with the opportunity to take advantage of, and understand, the inner-workings of code and see how this creative medium can help bring their ideas to life. As well as providing their service in 37 countries, SuperHi endeavour to create opportunities for all backgrounds and stop women in tech being asked “you’re a developer??”
Having completed the SuperHi course, what would you say was the biggest reward?
Their Slack group was a big unexpected winner for me. Being able to get get 1-on-1 help from SuperHi instructors has been incredibly valuable. After completing the course I’m at the point where I can now say to my clients “Yes – I can design, and code!” which is very empowering.
The fact that this course has an online community and the facilities to get 1-1 for me is a winner, if I am struggling it would be perfect to be able to simply log into their 'Slack' and get help. They offer long courses and short courses, the long ones run over 8 weeks and start every Monday, whilst the shorter ones are self-paced.
I presumed that the foundation would be my starting point, as I have no previous experience in coding, I could then go onto the Wordpress intermediate course and possibly do a few of the short courses along the way. On the website there is a chat that pops up at the side asking if you have any questions so I thought I would get their opinion on what courses I should do for what I want to achieve, as well as ask about student discount.
I spoke to Rik, the ceo of Superhi and he was really helpful with advising me what course would be suitable and also chatty and even offered to help me get in touch with agencies in Liverpool. I imagine this would be the sense of help/ community and friendliness you get in Slack - as you are really joining a community that supports their students rather than other courses and you are just a number to them. Having looked on Superhi's social feeds they often share their students work, which shows the standard that can be made whilst also reassuring that they are supportive.
They also have their own editor that you learn to code on that hosts everything in one place, is beginner friendly and made with creatives in mind. Although the long courses are 8 weeks, you get lifetime access and can go at your own pace, there is also lifetime access to Slack. Lastly they offer a book - learn to code now.
What’s in the book?
We cover everything a creative person would need to know when learning to code with HTML, CSS + Javascript – the building blocks of web design.
- What are all the different programming languages?
- How to pick the right code language for the right job
- Five common mistakes when learning to code
- How to make a website
- Recapping front-end web development
- But how do you write code?
- Wait? The internet and the web are different?
- So why not just build an app?
- Let’s talk about HTML
- Images + file types
- White space + indentation
- Connecting HTML + CSS
- Typography using CSS
- Search engine friendliness + meta tags
- Styling with color
- Backgrounds
- Blurry backgrounds and retina screens
- CSS parallax effects
- Background gradients
- Hover states + transitions
- Classes in HTML and CSS
- The box model — borders, paddings and margins
- Rounded corners with border radius
- Photoshop-style filters
- Multi-column layouts with floats
- Transparency with opacity and rgba colors
- Drop shadows
- Mobile-friendly designs with media queries
- CSS displays — inline, block and inline-block
- Positioning — fixed, absolute and relative
- Cursors and mouse pointers
- Transforms: rotations, scaling and skews
- Vertical alignment
- Head tags
- Flexbox – complex layouts made easy
- CSS animations with keyframes
- Using steps to animate images
- Forms and inputs
- Audio, video and media
- Video backgrounds
- Web fonts using @font-face
- Starting with Javascript
- For loops
- Functions
- Adding your scripts to your pages
- How to work with jQuery and why?
- Javascript events
- jQuery animations
- Fade and transitions with CSS and jQuery
- Timers, intervals and delays
- Javascript parallax
- Progress bar scroll
- Ajax — get and send data after page load
- What is JSON?
- Animation using Javascript
- Mouse + touch movements
- Make your own light box
- jQuery plug-ins
- Fixing your own code
- Integration with back-end code and 3rd party services like Squarespace, WordPress and Tumblr
A lot of the things listed above are mentioned in the job descriptions I was looking at. My plan is to buy the foundation course after my final submissions, see how I get on with it and possibly buy the Wordpress one whilst I'm still a student to get the discount and do that after the 8 weeks of foundation. I will complete these courses whilst still working on my portfolio and trying to improve my drawing and photography.
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