Make Frontend Development Your Career with Udacity’s Front End Web Developer Nanodegree Program

Aamir Dammad

27 December 2022

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Course Overview

This Front End Web Development Program is filled with practical approaches to learning through multiple projects. The program will prepare graduates to create responsive websites using CSS, Flexbox, and CSS Grid, to develop interactive websites and user interface applications using JavaScript and HTML.

The students will also be able to utilize udacity’s bonus course, which helps with resume building, interview preparation and soft skills. The tips and tricks, if implemented effectively, will further advance your career scope.

The instructors at Udacity are always engaging. The best part is they let you practice a lot. All starter projects were pre-coded, which helped students develop the habit of picking up on existing projects.

Richard Kalehoff was one of my instructors for this curriculum. The instructors provided one-to-one sessions initially, and gradually, they stopped it as the tutorials are curated in such a way that they act as self-explanatory guides for imparting the technicalities being taught in the live sessions.

"This program taught me the technical skills necessary to create and maintain a wide range of websites and applications. The focus on providing learners a lot of hands-on training is highly appreciable."

- Aamir Dammad

Course Structure

This front-end web developer certification program is of an intermediate level. It is an online course and is designed as a self-paced curriculum keeping the working professionals in mind. It is spread for a duration of 4 months and requires an effort of not more than 10 hours per week. Some of the critical topics covered in this curriculum include: Style Sheets, Document Object Model (DOM), Node.js, HTML, etc.

The course offers instructor-moderated discussions that offer great opportunities to make and build connections. The learners get to enjoy the benefits of hands-on training. The curriculum prepares the learners for a career in the real world. Moreover, the prescribed modules of this course are detailed, comprehensive, and practical.

Technically, the course is spread over 4 prime modules:

Module 1: CSS and Website Layout

Module 2: JavaScript and the DOM

Module 3: Web APIs and Asynchronous Applications

Module 4: Build Tools, Webpack, and Service Worker

Insider Tips

In order to get the best out of this course, I have included some important tips below that I think you might find useful.

Devote Enough Time for Capstone and Assignments

This course contains many assignments and projects which will help you to apply your frontend web skills and have hands-on experience. I recommend giving enough time and energy to these projects. You will get to learn something new from each project though at times it may even be challenging. Each module had assessments after every few lectures. There were 8-10 assessments in the form of quizzes, small coding challenges, and puzzles. I worked on 2 capstone projects and gained a lot of technical understanding - Classic Arcade Frogger game and Memory Game

Learn Prerequisites

Learning front-end web development in one go can be overwhelming. It is important to learn one skill at a time and give yourself some time to absorb new concepts. This course requires some basic understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript, Git, and debugging in the browser. I would recommend enrolling in some fundamental courses beforehand such as:

Final Take

Currently, I am working as a software developer in Kilowott. My current stack is ASP, .Net core, and Azure. These technology stacks were not part of my course; however, the brief introduction to these in the course has helped me indirectly.

If you have completed this course and want to study front-end development further, the next course I would recommend is: https://www.udacity.com/course/react-nanodegree--nd019.