Learn the fundamentals of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML with our comprehensive 12-week course, brought to you by Microsoft Cloud Advocates. Each of the 24 lessons includes pre- and post-lesson quizzes, detailed written instructions, solutions, assignments, and much more. With a project-based approach to learning, our curriculum is designed to help you develop practical skills through hands-on building. Enhance your skills and optimize your knowledge retention with our effective project-based pedagogy.
### _Are you a student?_
####_Are you a student?_ 🧑🎓
Visit [**Student Hub page**](https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/student-hub/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon) where you will find beginner resources, Student packs and even ways to get a free certificate voucher. This is the page you want to bookmark and check from time to time as we switch out content monthly.
# Getting Started
## Getting Started 🚀
> **Teachers**, we have [included some suggestions](for-teachers.md) on how to use this curriculum. We'd love your feedback [in our discussion forum](https://github.com/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners/discussions/categories/teacher-corner)!
> **[Students](https://aka.ms/student-page/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon)**, to fully benefit from this curriculum, we encourage you to fork the entire repository and engage in self-study. Start with a pre-lecture quiz and follow through with reading the lecture material and completing the various activities. Emphasize on comprehending the lessons rather than just copying the solution code. However, if needed, the solution code can be found in the */solutions folders* within each project-based lesson. Another great way to enhance your learning experience is to form a study group with your peers and work through the curriculum together. To further your education, we highly recommend exploring [Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/users/wirelesslife/collections/p1ddcy5jwy0jkm?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon) for additional study materials..
**[Learners](https://aka.ms/student-page/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon)**, for each lesson, start with a pre-lecture quiz and follow through with reading the lecture material, completing the various activities and chck your understanding with the post-lecture quiz.
## Pedagogy
To enhance your learning experience, connect with your peers to work on the projects together! Discussions are encouraged in our [discussion forum](https://github.com/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners/discussions) where our team of moderators will be available to answer your questions.
Our curriculum is designed with two key pedagogical principles in mind: project-based learning and frequent quizzes. The program teaches the fundamentals of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, as well as the latest tools and techniques used by today's web developers. Students will have the opportunity to develop hands-on experience by building a typing game, virtual terrarium, eco-friendly browser extension, space-invader-style game, and a banking app for businesses. By the end of the series, students will have gained a solid understanding of web development.
To further your education, we highly recommend exploring [Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/users/wirelesslife/collections/p1ddcy5jwy0jkm?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon) for additional study materials.
> 🎓 You can take the first few lessons in this curriculum as a [Learn Path](https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/paths/web-development-101/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon) on Microsoft Learn!
### Setting up your environment 📋
By ensuring that the content aligns with projects, the process is made more engaging for students and retention of concepts will be augmented. We also wrote several starter lessons in JavaScript basics to introduce concepts, paired with a video from the "[Beginners Series to: JavaScript](https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beginners-Series-to-JavaScript/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon)" collection of video tutorials, some of whose authors contributed to this curriculum.
This curriculum has a development environment ready to go! As you get started you can choose to run the curriculum in a [Codespace](https://github.com/features/codespaces/) (_a browser-based, no installs needed environment_), or locally on your computer using a text editor such as [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon).
In addition, a low-stakes quiz before a class sets the intention of the student towards learning a topic, while a second quiz after class ensures further retention. This curriculum was designed to be flexible and fun and can be taken in whole or in part. The projects start small and become increasingly complex by the end of the 12-week cycle.
#### Create your repository
For you to easily save your work, it is recommended that you create your own copy of this repository. You can do this by clicking the **Use this template** button at the top of the page. This will create a new repository in your GitHub account with a copy of the curriculum.
While we have purposefully avoided introducing JavaScript frameworks to concentrate on the basic skills needed as a web developer before adopting a framework, a good next step to completing this curriculum would be learning about Node.js via another collection of videos: "[Beginner Series to: Node.js](https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beginners-Series-to-Nodejs/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon)".
> Find our [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md), [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md), and [Translation](TRANSLATIONS.md) guidelines. We welcome your constructive feedback!
#### Running the curriculum in a Codespace
In your copy of this repository that you created, click the **Code** button and select **Open with Codespaces**. This will create a new Codespace for you to work in.
#### Running the curriculum locally on your computer
To run this curriculum locally on your computer, you will need a text editor, browser and command line tool. Our first lesson, [Introduction to Programming Languages and Tools of the Trade](https://github.com/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners/tree/main/1-getting-started-lessons/1-intro-to-programming-languages), will walk you through various options for each of these tools for you to select what works best for you.
Our recommendation is to use [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon) as your editor, which also has a built-in [Terminal](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/terminal/basics/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon). You can download Visual Studio Code [here](https://code.visualstudio.com/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon).
1. Clone your repository to your computer. You can do this by clicking the **Code** button and copying the URL:
<imgsrc="./images/createcodespace.png"alt="Copy your repository URL"style="width:270px;"/>
Then, open [Terminal](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/terminal/basics/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon) within [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon) and run the following command, replacing `<your-repository-url>` with the URL you just copied:
```bash
git clone <your-repository-url>
```
2. Open the folder in Visual Studio Code. You can do this by clicking **File** > **Open Folder** and selecting the folder you just cloned.
## Each lesson includes:
> Recommended Visual Studio Code extensions:
>
> * [Live Server](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer&WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon) - to preview HTML pages within Visual Studio Code
> * [Copilot](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.copilot&WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon) - to help you write code faster
## Each lesson includes: 📂
- optional sketchnote
- optional supplemental video
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> **A note about quizzes**: All quizzes are contained [in this app](https://ashy-river-0debb7803.1.azurestaticapps.net/), for 48 total quizzes of three questions each. They are linked from within the lessons but the quiz app can be run locally; follow the instruction in the `quiz-app` folder. They are gradually being localized.
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| 23 | [Banking App](/7-bank-project/solution/README.md) | Methods of Fetching and Using Data | How data flows in and out of your app, how to fetch it, store it, and dispose of it | [Data](/7-bank-project/3-data/README.md) | Yohan |
| 24 | [Banking App](/7-bank-project/solution/README.md) | Concepts of State Management | Learn how your app retains state and how to manage it programmatically | [State Management](/7-bank-project/4-state-management/README.md) | Yohan |
## Offline access
## Pedagogy 📚
Our curriculum is designed with two key pedagogical principles in mind:
* project-based learning
* frequent quizzes
The program teaches the fundamentals of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, as well as the latest tools and techniques used by today's web developers. Students will have the opportunity to develop hands-on experience by building a typing game, virtual terrarium, eco-friendly browser extension, space-invader-style game, and a banking app for businesses. By the end of the series, students will have gained a solid understanding of web development.
> 🎓 You can take the first few lessons in this curriculum as a [Learn Path](https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/paths/web-development-101/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon) on Microsoft Learn!
By ensuring that the content aligns with projects, the process is made more engaging for students and retention of concepts will be augmented. We also wrote several starter lessons in JavaScript basics to introduce concepts, paired with a video from the "[Beginners Series to: JavaScript](https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beginners-Series-to-JavaScript/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon)" collection of video tutorials, some of whose authors contributed to this curriculum.
In addition, a low-stakes quiz before a class sets the intention of the student towards learning a topic, while a second quiz after class ensures further retention. This curriculum was designed to be flexible and fun and can be taken in whole or in part. The projects start small and become increasingly complex by the end of the 12-week cycle.
While we have purposefully avoided introducing JavaScript frameworks to concentrate on the basic skills needed as a web developer before adopting a framework, a good next step to completing this curriculum would be learning about Node.js via another collection of videos: "[Beginner Series to: Node.js](https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beginners-Series-to-Nodejs/?WT.mc_id=academic-77807-sagibbon)".
> Visit our [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) and [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) guidelines. We welcome your constructive feedback!
## Offline access
You can run this documentation offline by using [Docsify](https://docsify.js.org/#/). Fork this repo, [install Docsify](https://docsify.js.org/#/quickstart) on your local machine, and then in the root folder of this repo, type `docsify serve`. The website will be served on port 3000 on your localhost: `localhost:3000`.
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A PDF of all of the lessons can be found [here](https://microsoft.github.io/Web-Dev-For-Beginners/pdf/readme.pdf).
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