What to check
before day one
Front-end design is hands-on from the first session. Participants who arrive with basic orientation get more out of each exercise and spend less time on setup during live workshops.
What the workshops expect of you
You do not need to know CSS or JavaScript in advance. You do need to be comfortable with a code editor and have a browser installed where you can open DevTools.
Each workshop module runs as a sequence of exercises — you write code, break it, and examine why. Participants typically arrive with some exposure to HTML structure, even if it is from reading documentation rather than building anything complete. The exercises scaffold from there.
Install VS Code and the Live Server extension before the first session. Have a GitHub account ready for submitting exercise files. The platform runs in a browser, so no local server or Node environment is needed to participate.
View the full program
I set up VS Code the night before and it saved a full hour during the first live session.
The checklist on this page is accurate — I skipped the GitHub step and had to sort it mid-workshop.
No prior CSS experience. The pre-read materials linked from the platform were enough to follow session one without gaps.