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Web Development for Beginners - A Curriculum

Learn the basics of web development with this 12-week course created by Microsoft Cloud Advocates. The curriculum includes 24 lessons covering JavaScript, CSS, and HTML through hands-on projects like terrariums, browser extensions, and space games. Engage with quizzes, discussions, and practical assignments to solidify your understanding. This project-based approach ensures effective learning and retention. Start your coding journey today!

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Each lesson includes assignments, knowledge checks, and challenges to help you learn topics like:

• Prompting and prompt engineering
• Text and image app generation
• Search apps

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🌱 Getting Started

Teachers, we have included some suggestions on how to use this curriculum. We'd love your feedback in our discussion forum!

Learners, for each lesson, start with a pre-lecture quiz, read the lecture material, complete the activities, and check your understanding with the post-lecture quiz.

Enhance your learning experience by collaborating with peers on projects! Join discussions in our discussion forum, where moderators are available to answer your questions.

For additional study materials, explore Microsoft Learn.

📋 Setting up your environment

This curriculum comes with a ready-to-use development environment! You can choose to run it in a Codespace (browser-based, no installation required) or locally on your computer using a text editor like Visual Studio Code.

Create your repository

To save your work, create your own copy of this repository. Click the Use this template button at the top of the page to create a new repository in your GitHub account with a copy of the curriculum.

Follow these steps:

1. Fork the Repository: Click the "Fork" button at the top-right corner of this page.
2. Clone the Repository: git clone https://github.com/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners.git

Running the curriculum in a Codespace

In your copy of this repository, 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, you'll need a text editor, a browser, and a command-line tool. The first lesson, Introduction to Programming Languages and Tools of the Trade, will guide you through selecting the tools that work best for you.

We recommend using Visual Studio Code as your editor, which includes a built-in Terminal. You can download Visual Studio Code here.

1. Clone your repository to your computer. Click the Code button and copy the URL:

   CodeSpace

   Then, open Terminal within Visual Studio Code and run the following command, replacing <your-repository-url> with the URL you just copied:

   git clone <your-repository-url>
   

2. Open the folder in Visual Studio Code. Click File > Open Folder and select the folder you just cloned.

Recommended Visual Studio Code extensions:

• Live Server - to preview HTML pages within Visual Studio Code
• Copilot - to help you write code faster

📂 Each lesson includes:

• Optional sketchnote
• Optional supplemental video
• Pre-lesson warmup quiz
• Written lesson
• Step-by-step guides for project-based lessons
• Knowledge checks
• A challenge
• Supplemental reading
• Assignment
• Post-lesson quiz

A note about quizzes: All quizzes are located in the Quiz-app folder, with a total of 48 quizzes, each containing three questions. They are available here. The quiz app can be run locally or deployed to Azure; follow the instructions in the quiz-app folder.

🗃️ Lessons

	Project Name	Concepts Taught	Learning Objectives	Linked Lesson	Author
01	Getting Started	Introduction to Programming and Tools of the Trade	Learn the basic principles behind most programming languages and the software that helps professional developers in their work	Intro to Programming Languages and Tools of the Trade	Jasmine
02	Getting Started	Basics of GitHub, includes working with a team	Learn how to use GitHub in your project and collaborate with others on a codebase	Intro to GitHub	Floor
03	Getting Started	Accessibility	Learn the fundamentals of web accessibility	Accessibility Fundamentals	Christopher
04	JS Basics	JavaScript Data Types	Understand the basics of JavaScript data types	Data Types	Jasmine
05	JS Basics	Functions and Methods	Learn about functions and methods to control the logic flow of an application	Functions and Methods	Jasmine and Christopher
06	JS Basics	Making Decisions with JS	Learn how to create conditions in your code using decision-making techniques	Making Decisions	Jasmine
07	JS Basics	Arrays and Loops	Work with data using arrays and loops in JavaScript	Arrays and Loops	Jasmine
08	Terrarium	HTML in Practice	Build the HTML to create an online terrarium, focusing on layout creation	Introduction to HTML	Jen
09	Terrarium	CSS in Practice	Build the CSS to style the online terrarium, focusing on CSS basics, including making the page responsive	Introduction to CSS	Jen
10	Terrarium	JavaScript Closures, DOM manipulation	Build the JavaScript to make the terrarium function as a drag-and-drop interface, focusing on closures and DOM manipulation	JavaScript Closures, DOM manipulation	Jen
11	Typing Game	Build a Typing Game	Learn how to use keyboard events to drive the logic of your JavaScript app	Event-Driven Programming	Christopher
12	Green Browser Extension	Working with Browsers	Learn how browsers work, their history, and how to scaffold the first elements of a browser extension	About Browsers	Jen
13	Green Browser Extension	Building a form, calling an API and storing variables in local storage	Build the JavaScript elements of your browser extension to call an API using variables stored in local storage	APIs, Forms, and Local Storage	Jen
14	Green Browser Extension	Background processes in the browser, web performance	Use the browser's background processes to manage the extension's icon; learn about web performance and some optimizations	Background Tasks and Performance	Jen
15	Space Game	More Advanced Game Development with JavaScript	Learn about inheritance using both classes and composition, and the Pub/Sub pattern, in preparation for building a game	Introduction to Advanced Game Development	Chris
16	Space Game	Drawing to canvas	Learn about the Canvas API, used to draw elements on a screen	Drawing to Canvas	Chris
17	Space Game	Moving elements around the screen	Discover how elements can move using Cartesian coordinates and the Canvas API	Moving Elements Around	Chris
18	Space Game	Collision detection	Make elements collide and react to each other using keypresses, and provide a cooldown function to ensure game performance	Collision Detection	Chris
19	Space Game	Keeping score	Perform math calculations based on the game's status and performance	Keeping Score	Chris
20	Space Game	Ending and restarting the game	Learn about ending and restarting the game, including cleaning up assets and resetting variable values	The Ending Condition	Chris
21	Banking App	HTML Templates and Routes in a Web App	Learn how to create the scaffold of a multipage website's architecture using routing and HTML templates	HTML Templates and Routes	Yohan
22	Banking App	Build a Login and Registration Form	Learn about building forms and handling validation routines	Forms	Yohan
23	Banking App	Methods of Fetching and Using Data	Understand how data flows in and out of your app, how to fetch it, store it, and dispose of it	Data	Yohan
24	Banking App	Concepts of State Management	Learn how your app retains state and how to manage it programmatically	State Management	Yohan
25	Browser/VScode Code	Working with VScode	Learn how to use a code editor	Use VScode Code Editor	Chris
26	AI Assistants	Working with AI	Learn how to build your own AI assistant	AI Assistant project	Chris

🏫 Pedagogy

Our curriculum is designed with two key teaching principles in mind:

• project-based learning
• frequent quizzes

The program covers the fundamentals of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, along with the latest tools and techniques used by modern web developers. Students will gain hands-on experience by building projects such as 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 a solid understanding of web development.

🎓 You can take the first few lessons in this curriculum as a Learn Path on Microsoft Learn!

By aligning the content with projects, the learning process becomes more engaging for students, and concept retention is enhanced. We also included several introductory lessons on JavaScript basics, paired with videos from the "Beginners Series to: JavaScript" collection of tutorials, some of which were authored by contributors to this curriculum.

Additionally, a low-stakes quiz before class helps set the student's focus on the topic, while a second quiz after class reinforces retention. This curriculum is designed to be flexible and enjoyable, and it can be completed in full or in part. The projects start small and gradually increase in complexity over the 12-week cycle.

While we intentionally avoided introducing JavaScript frameworks to focus on the foundational skills needed as a web developer before adopting a framework, a good next step after completing this curriculum would be learning about Node.js through another video series: "Beginner Series to: Node.js".

Visit our Code of Conduct and Contributing guidelines. We welcome your constructive feedback!

🧭 Offline access

You can run this documentation offline using Docsify. Fork this repository, install Docsify on your local machine, and then in the root folder of this repository, type docsify serve. The website will be served on port 3000 on your localhost: localhost:3000.

📘 PDF

A PDF of all the lessons can be found here.

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License

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