What a beginner should be able to do at the end of each month of our Full Stack Web Development course, from first web page to a deployed project, and why the order matters.
People often ask what six months of training actually looks like, and whether it is realistic to go from no coding experience to building a working web application. It is, provided the topics come in the right order and each one is practised until it is comfortable. Here is how our Full Stack Web Development course is laid out, and what you should be able to do at each stage.
The first month is HTML5, CSS3 and responsive layout. You learn how a web page is structured, how to style it and how to make it work on any screen size, from a phone to a wide monitor. By the end of the month you should be able to build a complete, good-looking multi-page site from a design without copying it from anywhere. It is not the most glamorous stage, but every later month depends on it. People who rush through it spend the rest of the course confused about layout problems.
The second month is JavaScript fundamentals and the DOM. You learn variables, functions, conditions, loops and arrays, and then how to use them to make a page respond: validating a form, showing and hiding content, updating a list without reloading. This is the month many beginners find hardest, because it is the first time you are truly programming. The measure of success is small and concrete: you can write a working feature, such as a to-do list or a simple calculator, from a blank file.
The third month moves to the server with PHP and object-oriented programming. Here the ideas shift from what appears on the screen to what happens behind it. You learn how a browser sends a request, how the server processes it and how it responds. You learn to organise code into classes and reuse it. By the end you can build pages that take input, process it and return a result.
The fourth month is MySQL database design and queries. Applications need to remember things, and a database is where they do it. You learn to plan tables and the relationships between them, to write queries that add, find, change and remove data, and to think about keeping data consistent. You connect PHP to the database and build the classic create, read, update and delete features. After this month you can build something that stores real information.
The fifth month introduces a framework, CodeIgniter or Laravel, together with REST APIs and authentication. Frameworks provide a tested structure for the things every application needs, so you stop reinventing them. You learn routing, controllers, models and views, how to handle user login securely and how to build an API that other applications, including mobile apps, can use. Alongside this, Git and GitHub become part of daily work: every piece of code is versioned and can be reviewed.
The sixth month is deployment and a live project. You take a real application from your own machine to a working server, with a domain, a database and secure settings. The project is built to a brief, and reviewed as it would be in a company. This becomes the centrepiece of your portfolio, and the thing you will talk about in interviews.
A few notes on how to get the most from it. Practise between sessions, since skill comes from writing code, not from watching it. Do not skip a month because it feels familiar: gaps there show up later. Ask questions early. And keep a record of what you build, because a folder of finished work is a far better introduction than any certificate.
The course is open to graduates and final-year students from any stream, and no prior coding is required. It runs online or in person, and if you would like to see a batch in progress before deciding, we are glad to arrange it.