BIY: Freelancers
Module 1: Your First Build
Overview

Module 1: Your First Build

In this module, you will go from zero to a deployed web application. You will scope a real problem in your tutoring practice, choose the right tools, build a public intake form and an admin dashboard, and put it all online.


What You'll Learn

  • How to identify problems in your freelance practice that are worth solving with software
  • How to pick frameworks, databases, and hosting without getting overwhelmed
  • How to build a public-facing intake form that parents and students can use
  • How to build a private admin dashboard for managing your sessions
  • How to deploy your app so it is live on the internet

Lessons

  1. Introduction — Meet the course, share your tutoring situation, building your own tools
  2. Scoping the Problem — Identify problems worth solving in your tutoring practice
  3. Choosing Your Tools — Frameworks, databases, hosting — why you don't need to master any
  4. Building the Public Side — Build the student intake form — your professional front door
  5. Building the Admin Side — Build the dashboard for managing students, logging sessions, tracking hours
  6. Deploying Your App — Put your app online for parents and students

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