Learn to code with Center for Social Innovation & Le Wagon

Learn to quickly build a set of icons, a logo, a newsletter banner or even a mockup for your app. We'll cover everything you need to know to build your graphical assets using the latest and coolest resources for the best pictures, icons, colours, fonts, and patterns. You will also get general knowledge about standard UI components as well as designer tricks and secrets.

What you will learn:

• Use Figma, a popular graphical tool used in startups, to refine your icons, change their colour and shape, export them, and customise any assets (logo, icons, newsletter banner, etc.)
• Discover UI components and how they are built.
• Design tricks and tips: how to build a nice shadow? Add a filter to a cover pic? resize pictures with different proportions? Create masks? etc...

Learn to quickly build a set of icons, a logo, a newsletter banner or even a mockup for your app. We'll cover everything you need to know to build your graphical assets. During this workshop, Esteban will guide you through the essentials of UI & UX Design. You'll start by learning about design resources and move on to a deep dive into aspects of the design sprint methodology.

Instructor: Esteban Palacio, Fullstack developer & Le Wagon Toronto Manager.

👉 In this workshop you will:

● Get to know about the coolest resources for the best pictures, icons, colors, fonts and patterns. ● Watch a demo of Figma (www.figma.com), a popular graphical tool used in startups, to refine your icons, change their color and shape, export them, and customise any assets (logos, icons, newsletter banner, etc.) ● Learn about zoning, wireframing and building a mockup ● Ask any questions you have about building a prototype

👉 This is a workshop for beginners, no pre-requisite. Bring a laptop if you want to practice!

⚠️How to prepare and what to bring ⚠️

✅ If you bring your laptop, please make sure it is FULLY CHARGED

✅ Create an account on Figma and download the desktop app on your computer (https://www.figma.com)

We look forward to meeting you soon!

Explore the world of web development: Ruby is a programming language used by many tech companies - among them Evernote, Intuit, New Relic, Shopify, Stripe, Blue Apron, Square, etc.Join us and code your first lines of Ruby.

This is a FREE coding workshop for absolute beginners. You do not need to have any coding background to attend this event. The workshop will be in English ** Bring your own laptop **Seats are limited.

✍️What you'll learn✍️

• Basic concepts
• Types (string, integer, float, boolean)
• Variables
• Methods
• Arrays
• Conditionals
• Intro to loops
• Game in livecode

We look forward to meeting you soon 😉

Thank you CSI for hosting us ♥

Further details about the program and how to apply can be found at

http://www.lewagon.com/toronto

Code and design all the most useful web-components like buttons, avatars, cards, navs, dropdown, list items.. with nice CSS tricks and techniques. We will go through existing components giving examples from nice websites (Product Hunt, Medium, etc.). To take part of this workshop you should have some HTML/CSS basic knowledge. If you attended to the "2 hours landing" workshop, this is enough to come to this one! :)

What you will learn:

• Organize your CSS with component files.
• Introduce useful CSS techniques
• Live-code a maximum of cool components

Let's go through JavaScript core notions together. This programming language is very popular. It's been used by all web browsers for more than 15 years and every web developer will code some JS during his career. In addition to that, lots of cool JS frameworks were built recently, like React.js from Facebook.

What you will learn:

• History and background
• Variables & Types
• Conditions
• Loops
• Functions
• Objects
• DOM
• jQuery
• AJAX