Learn. Deploy. Engage.
From Front-End to Full-Stack in Five Days
Online, July 25 - 29, 2021
10:00-12:00 BST | 11:00-13:00 CEST | 14:30-16:30 IST | 19:00-21:00 AEST
FREE for Women*
Learn
Five days of daily workshops and consultation led by Shmuela Jacobs with supporting mentors.
Deploy
Connect your own Angular app to Serverless API and DB with user management, and publish it.
Engage
Connect with the participants and share your learnings, ideas, and inspiration with the community.
Upgrade your skills
Transform your Angular App to a Full-Featured Web App
You have wonderful ideas, and you use Angular to create beautiful applications with meaningful content and user engagement. But you've always wondered how hard it would be to push your project to production. With my guidance you'll be able to deploy and add essential features to your web application in five days.
I don't want to fool you, no one becomes a full-stack expert in only five days. The purpose of HackaLearn is to get you started in the right direction, with personal support and a clear route for the next steps. I believe in learning by doing, especially when it comes to technical skills. And, like I'm excited about Angular, I'm also excited about the new Serverless offerings on Azure and other Cloud providers which simplify the process for us developers.
Make Great Use of your Summer Vacation
I truly hope that you have time to relax during the summer vacation. If you'll have a few hours every now and then to learn something new, expand your portfolio, and take your ideas to the next level - don't miss up on this opportunity.
My own summer vacation is a long one with holidays throughout September. As an ngMom I'll be spending it with my two little adorable ngBoys, and their ReactDad 😉 I am truly grateful for my full time job as a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft which enables me to use the last few weeks before my vacation to bring my knowledge and experience and personally inspire and motivate ngGirls all around the world.
What you’ll learn
Today's technology allows you to deploy your application with all the necessary configuration with just a few steps. We'll use Azure Static Web Apps, Functions, and Cosmos DB to transform your wonderful Angular front-end to a full-featured application that you can serve to your audience right away.
Static Web Apps
The new service by Azure takes care of all the necessary details of deployment. It takes your project straight from GitHub, adds SSL certificate, provides user management (authentication and authorization) out of the box, enables seamless integration with your API, and more.
Azure Functions
Write backend functions that connect your front end with backend services such as DB, or perform heavy or confidential logic in a secure environment. These functions can be triggered by HTTP requests, database actions, and more.
Cosmos DB
With this NoSQL database your application can scale and grow without the need to to update your schema. Cosmos DB comes with different "flavors" (APIs) that let you use a DB language you're familiar with.
What's HackaLearn?
Agenda
During the five days we'll meet every day for a 2-hour workshop (11:00-13:00 CEST), where we'll connect a pre-made Angular application to Azure, step by step. First we'll deploy it on Static Web Apps, then add an API, connect to Cosmos DB, use authentication and authorization, and configure routing. The workshops will be recorded.
After the workshop we'll have Q&A (13:30-14:30 CEST) where Shmuela will take a look at your projects and help you both with Angular and Azure. Several mentors will be available throughout the week for additional assistance. Additional relevant content will be provided, such as video tutorials and Learn Modules.
About a week later we'll meet again to present our applications.
Participating
The workshops are free for women, and designed for developers who have some experience with Angular. It can be suitable also for developers with experience with other front-end frameworks such as React or Vue. We will use Angular-specific methods for HTTP requests and routing, but you can implicate on your preferable framework.
You may or may not have experience with back end or other Cloud services (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and others). We will go through the process and ideas behind deployment and Serverless architecture.
Shortly after applying to HackaLearn we will inform you whether you have the necessary prerequisites to attend. We may suggest other learning programs or, if you seem to have enough experience, invite you as a mentor.
The Challenge
The challenge consists of three parts, for which you'll be eligible for an Azure Hero Badge:
Deploying your own application to Static Web Apps,
Completing the Learn Modules provided in the Cloud Skills Challenge,
Sharing a post where you tell about your experience.
Details
Participation is free of charge. In addition, Azure is free for (generous) limited use.
The workshops will be held in English. Depending on the mentors' capabilities, we may support you in other languages during consultancy time.
If you're not able to attend this time, or you don't belong to an underrepresented group in tech, you may join the next round of HackaLearn which will be open for everyone, on August 8-12.
HackaLearn is free. Apply now.
*ngGirls HackaLearn is for women and underrepresented communities in tech.
If you're not able to join us this time, check out the next HackaLearn week which is open for everyone, on August 8-12.
ngGirls - the Online Experience
I’m selling shelled pecans, but I’m more excited to show off my new @angular website! A big thanks to @AngularGirls & my hubs @ArvidOutdoors for teaching me!
- Jen Halvorson, participated and mentored in ngGirls events
The ngGirls team makes sure that the online workshops would be engaging and beneficial. As in our in-person events, we have speakers and mentors who present and check your projects remotely. We always add some fun activities such as quizzes and online yoga sessions.
Check out Jen's tweet
...It is easy to drown in the sea of information. I am grateful for enthusiasts such as Shmuela Jacobs that lend me a hand in my way!
- Oxana Shvartzman, Front-End Developer
ngGirls expands its horizons with new programs, for beginners as well as professional developers. The first HackaLearn was led by Shmuela for the Israeli audience.
Check out Oxana's post about HackaLearn.
Your instructor, Shmuela Jacobs
Hi! I'm Shmuela. I’m a proud ngMom of two little ngBoys. Besides that, I'm a front-end developer and consultant, the founder of ngGirls, working as a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. I'm a Google Developer Expert in Angular and Web Technologies. My passion for teaching, which had been expressed in the past as a guide in science museums and TA in university, has been integrated in my journey of becoming a developer.
During my masters degree I started loving programming. I also realized how important the Web is - browsers and web apps have become the most used programs on our computers and phones. While attending several meetups to explore JavaScript frameworks I fell in love with AngularJS. I took a course and started working as a front-end consultant, while teaching developers in meetups and conferences.
When Angular went through a rewrite and became more structured I saw in it a great opportunity to teach web programming for beginners. I wanted to inspire specifically women, as I was inspired and motivated by programs such as Django Girls, Rails Girls and Google CodeF. I founded ngGirls and organized the first workshop with the help of many people in the community. It was a great success and excitement. I kept on collaborating with conferences and tech companies to organize more workshops, as the ngGirls team grew with passionate volunteers.
Today I enjoy a fulfilling position at Microsoft, getting to do everything I love: coding web apps, teaching and inspiring beginners and advanced programmers, and maintaining a warm, loving home for my family.
HackaLearn is free. Apply now.
*ngGirls HackaLearn is for women and underrepresented communities in tech.
If you're not able to join us this time, check out the next HackaLearn week which is open for everyone, on August 8-12.
