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AI & Application Development

Build Your First Web App

A hands-on introduction to building for the web: how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work together, using AI to write and understand code responsibly, and deploying a small interactive app live. Beginner-friendly, with a build-and-ship capstone.

INTERMEDIATE · en · ~300 min

Instructor: Self-paced · Reviewed by: Iroko Skills Academy team · Published by: Iroko Skills Academy team

Learning objectives

  • Explain how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript divide structure, style, and behavior
  • Build a small interactive page using the event-response pattern
  • Use AI to draft and explain code while staying in control of it
  • Deploy a static web app to a public URL

Before you start

Prerequisites: None

Device/connectivity: Laptop or desktop computer with a modern web browser and keyboard, Internet access for lessons, tools, and assignment submission

What you'll cover

  1. The Web's Building Blocks

    • What a web page actually is
    • HTML: the skeleton
    • CSS: the styling layer
  2. Making It Interactive

    • JavaScript: making the page do things
    • Using AI to write and understand code
  3. Shipping It

    • From files to a live site: deploying
    • Capstone: build and deploy a small web app

Assessment and completion criteria

Complete every published lesson to earn a completion badge. A self-paced certificate also requires passing every server-graded quiz. Practical assignments provide project feedback and may support a separate verified-proficiency record, but they do not delay the standard course certificate.

  • Optional reviewed project: Build and deploy a small web app · rubric v1 · pass ≥ 70%