Intro to Coding for Designers
Alexa Ann Bonomo
Since 2021, we’ve been offering installments of Intro to Coding for Designers to dozens of our peers who have left the course with projects that show their design practice in a whole new light. For the first time ever, Index is offering a version of Intro to Coding for students to take on their own schedule, at their own pace.
Learn foundational skills in web development with HTML and CSS, while responding to creative prompts and immersing yourself in a feminist, counter-cultural history of the internet.
In 7 30–60 minute chapters along with a few creative tutorials called ‘experiments,’ you’ll learn new skills in programming and begin to use code as a creative medium. Each chapter, you’ll be guided by readings and prompted to participate in discussions in Discord about life on the internet. Play, pause, and return to course materials any time as you learn at the pace that’s right for you.
Throughout the class, students will work on a personal web zine on a topic of their choice, leaving class with a completed, interactive, browser-based project.
What sets this course apart from other coding courses is the lesson on content management systems (CMS) with Kirby. You will learn how to create a fully functional CMS to allow you to build sites for others to update the website without having to code. Perfect for team collaboration!
Get access to resources like code snippets, readings, and references from within and beyond the Index community, students will learn foundational tools for self-publishing and archiving on the internet.
Learn foundational skills in HTML and CSS to build a webzine
A deeper understanding of the internet, its history, and possible futures
Learn a new skill to your design practice
Be able to build a fully functional content management system for collaboration with non-coders to update sites you make.
Play around with code with experiments in generative design and 3D photogammetry on the web
