Students gain hands-on experience in front-end web development and collaborative coding within an Ivy League pre-collegiate residential setting, led by University of Pennsylvania faculty.
The University of Pennsylvania Summer Academies - Coding offers a 3-week residential introduction to front-end web development for high school students. Participants will learn Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript (JS) to create functional and visually appealing web pages for both desktop and mobile devices. The curriculum emphasizes hands-on learning through instructor-led demonstrations and in-class exercises, ensuring long-term retention of key concepts. Students will also gain experience with GitHub for collaborative code development and version control, learning to work in teams to break down tasks and build applications. The program culminates in each team presenting their final working project. This academy provides a strong foundation for students interested in technical careers or those looking to apply computational thinking to other disciplines.
A typical day includes instructor-led demos and explanations followed by hands-on in-class student exercises to reinforce key concepts.
This program is ideal for high school students wishing to pursue a career in a technical field or those in other fields (arts, history, literature, language, etc.) who want to bring new tools and thinking to their chosen discipline.
3440 Market Street, Suite 450, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3335
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