Us
👋 We’re a tough track on web development, frontend applications, and data visualization. We’re 👩🏽🎓 students, 👷🏽♀️ industry, and 👩🏽🏫 teachers combined, in one location, where everyone learns. We start October 8th and end November 23th.
We work from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m, every work day, for six weeks, in a lab setting with 40 students and 2 teachers. Every 2 weeks a new course on a particular topic.
Students
Our students already know Bash, Git, GitHub, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, databases, Node, and npm. Not only that, they’re digital designers focussed on fixing problems for actual humans.
In this track we focus on frontend frameworks, such as React and Vue, and data visualistion, mostly with D3. This enables students to make their ideas for the web into reality. Though the subject matter is technical, attention to user experience and interaction design is, as always in our programme, stressed.
Feedback from last year: “Top notch university education combining the strengths of online and offline learning in one valuable course. By far the highest quality course I had in my studies. Led by Titus who is inspiring, motivating and just in general an awesome person.” — Daan “I learned so much […] There’s something awesome about sketching a concept of a data visualisation and then being able to build it yourself.” — Vincent “The course was engaging. Both novice and experienced developers were challenged, and both levels learned from each other” — LeviView more testimonials
Examples of student work
Industry
Teachers
Laurens is an all-round creative developer. He teaches at CMD, but also helps refugees learn new skills and prepare themselves for a new working life in CS at HackYourFuture.
Danny is an Indie Maker tinkering with code and creating digital products for the web. He’s also an expierienced teacher at CMD and coordinates backend.
Location
We’re hosted by the National Museum of Ethnology, 5 minutes walking from Leiden Central.
Program
This track is given at CMDA, a human-centred digital design bachelor for frontend focussed students. CMD is part of the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.