Mendix Essentials: Build Your First App is a beginner-friendly, fast-paced course for anyone curious about low-code development—no prior programming required. Through real-world examples and guided labs, you'll learn to navigate Mendix Studio, design user interfaces, model business logic, and deploy your first app quickly and confidently. The course focuses on building foundational skills in collaboration, feedback, and iteration—ensuring your apps deliver value from day one. Along the way, you’ll see how organizations like Quion, OpenClaims, Continental, and Dutch Railways succeed with Mendix, and you'll practice the same agile habits that power high-performing app teams. By course end, you'll have a working app, a personal plan for ongoing improvement, and the confidence to build solutions for your organization—all with Mendix.
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Skills you'll gain
- Software Development
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Application Development
- Development Testing
- Business Logic
- Prioritization
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Empowerment
- User Feedback
- Continuous Improvement Process
- Customer experience improvement
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Prototyping
- Agile Methodology
- Constructive Feedback
- User Interface (UI)
- No-Code Development
- Collaborative Software
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There are 3 modules in this course
In this introductory lesson, learners will explore what low-code development means, why Mendix is a leading platform, and how visual app building lowers the barrier for non-developers. Through real-world examples and guided demonstrations, learners will navigate the Mendix Studio interface, build their first app page, and reflect on the unique strengths of low-code for rapid prototyping and teamwork.
What's included
4 videos3 readings1 assignment
In this lesson, you’ll learn how successful Mendix projects depend on strong collaboration and fast, actionable feedback. You'll discover practical strategies for working with stakeholders, sharing prototypes early, and building a habit of iterative improvement—so you don't just deliver an app, but a solution people want to use. Through real Mendix case studies and hands-on exercises, you'll explore how simple communication habits and structured feedback cycles help you catch issues early, refine your work, and boost adoption across your team or organization.
What's included
2 videos1 reading1 assignment
In this final lesson, you'll explore how the best Mendix makers take ownership of both their process and their results—building not just fast, but smart. You'll learn practical methods for testing, refining, and iterating your app, and see how empowering users and team members to suggest changes leads to higher quality and stronger adoption. Real-world stories and hands-on activities will help you develop the confidence to manage trade-offs, prioritize improvements, and create Mendix apps that keep delivering value long after launch.
What's included
3 videos1 reading3 assignments
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