Mindgrid Academy · beginner track
For complete beginners (school leavers, graduates of non-tech degrees and career switchers) who have never written code and want a solid start before choosing a specialty. Students learn how software and the web work, set up a developer laptop, write JavaScript programs, build and style a web page and make it interactive, save and share their work with Git and GitHub, learn to read documentation and use an AI assistant responsibly, and finish by building and deploying a small web app that talks to a public API or stores its own data. At the end they can build, explain and publish a small working web app, have a GitHub profile to show for it, and know whether to continue into the Frontend or Backend course in a later intake.
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1 expert teaching
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Our flagship school-style experience — scheduled live classes, a fixed group that keeps you accountable, and instructors who review your work. Apply for admission; scholarships are awarded per intake.
What happens after you apply
8 Nov 2026 – 19 Dec 2026 · Admission-based · live classes
₦300,000
30 seats left
Six-week beginner cohort, one live class a week.
No live classes — on your schedule
Software Development Fundamentals runs as a live cohort, so it is admission-only. Self-paced courses — recorded lessons you can buy and start immediately — are in the marketplace.
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The people teaching this course
Each module is delivered by a working specialist — interviewed and approved by Mindgrid — who does this exact topic every day at work. Tap a name to see their full profile.
Where your tutors work
Curriculum
6 modules · each taught by a different industry expert · pay per module or enroll in all.
Milestones taken from the modules below
Pay per module or save with the full course
Each module is priced individually — pick the expert and topic you need, or enroll in everything at a discount.
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full course
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Covered by admissionStarts from zero: what software is made of, what front end, back end, databases and APIs mean, and what happens between typing a web address and seeing a page. Students set up the same tools professional developers use and run their first lines of JavaScript.
Lessons
After this module you can
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Module project
Draw (on paper or in a free diagram tool) how one app you use every day works, labelling the front end, back end, database and any APIs, then write and run a short JavaScript file that prints your name, your course goal and today's date.
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Covered by admissionProduction-grade learning
Our Software Development Fundamentalstrack is built around the exact tools, workflows, and delivery systems that top tech companies use. You won't just study concepts — you'll ship code, review PRs, and present to real audiences.
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