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24 Lessons, 12 Weeks, Get Started as a Web Developer

Web Development for Beginners - A Curriculum

Learn the fundamentals of web development with our 12-week comprehensive course by Microsoft Cloud Advocates. Each of the 24 lessons dive into JavaScript, CSS, and HTML through hands-on projects like terrariums, browser extensions, and space games. Engage with quizzes, discussions, and practical assignments. Enhance your skills and optimize your knowledge retention with our effective project-based pedagogy. Start your coding journey today!

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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 and follow through with reading the lecture material, completing the various activities and check your understanding with the post-lecture quiz.

To enhance your learning experience, connect with your peers to work on the projects together! Discussions are encouraged in our discussion forum where our team of moderators will be available to answer your questions.

To further your education, we highly recommend exploring Microsoft Learn for additional study materials.

📋 Setting up your environment

This curriculum has a development environment ready to go! As you get started you can choose to run the curriculum in a Codespace (a browser-based, no installs needed environment), or locally on your computer using a text editor such as Visual Studio Code.

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.

Follow these steps:

1. Fork the Repository: Click on 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 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, 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 as your editor, which also has a built-in Terminal. You can download Visual Studio Code here.

1. Clone your repository to your computer. You can do this by clicking the Code button and copying the URL:

   

   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. You can do this by clicking File > Open Folder and selecting 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
• for project-based lessons, step-by-step guides on how to build the project
• knowledge checks
• a challenge
• supplemental reading
• assignment
• post-lesson quiz

A note about quizzes: All quizzes are contained in the Quiz-app folder, 48 total quizzes of three questions each. They are linked from within the lessons the quiz app can be run locally or deployed to Azure; follow the instruction in the quiz-app folder. They are gradually being localized.

🗃️ Lessons

	Project Name	Concepts Taught	Learning Objectives	Linked Lesson	Author
01	Getting Started	Introduction to Programming and Tools of the Trade	Learn the basic underpinnings behind most programming languages and about software that helps professional developers do their jobs	Intro to Programming Languages and Tools of the Trade	Jasmine
02	Getting Started	Basics of GitHub, includes working with a team	How to use GitHub in your project, how to collaborate with others on a code base	Intro to GitHub	Floor
03	Getting Started	Accessibility	Learn the basics of web accessibility	Accessibility Fundamentals	Christopher
04	JS Basics	JavaScript Data Types	The basics of JavaScript data types	Data Types	Jasmine
05	JS Basics	Functions and Methods	Learn about functions and methods to manage an application's logic flow	Functions and Methods	Jasmine and Christopher
06	JS Basics	Making Decisions with JS	Learn how to create conditions in your code using decision-making methods	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 building a layout	Introduction to HTML	Jen
09	Terrarium	CSS in Practice	Build the CSS to style the online terrarium, focusing on the basics of CSS 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/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 to make	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 to a screen	Drawing to Canvas	Chris
17	Space Game	Moving elements around the screen	Discover how elements can gain motion using the 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 performance of the game	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	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

🏫 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 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" 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".

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

🧭 Offline access

You can run this documentation offline by using Docsify. Fork this repo, install Docsify 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.

📘 PDF

A PDF of all of the lessons can be found here.

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License

This repository is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.

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Let's rethink the quizzes a little

Right now, the quizzes are intended to integrate with GitHub Classroom, but I haven't been able to make that work. If someone can create a GitHub Action to grade quizzes, or suggest an alternate way to give ungraded feedback, please let's discuss here!

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Expanding on JS Closure topic

Quoted from #84 :

The reason I think the highlighted part needs some change is that, it well explained function scope. But if it is titled with the name Closure, there might be some stuff missing (eg. things like why the state of the outer function can just be initialized once, etc.). I mean Closure is a big topic, and even some experienced developers will have tough time explaining what it is during interviews. So viewers of this curriculum might find it a bit challenging to understand if the target audience is at beginner level.

08. Terrarium: Introduction to HTML ../images missing files

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A link in "Terrarium Project Part 1: Introduction to HTML" to ../images is missing the proper plant image files.

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1. Go to lesson 08: Terrarium Project Part 1: Intro to HTML
2. Scroll down to subsection "The document's body", subsubsection "Images"
3. See link [source code folder]

HOW CAN I GET YOU OUT OF MY COMPUTER

HOW CAN I GET YOU OUT OF MY COMPUTER

Originally posted by @p197132 in #48 (comment)

Marho website

Audit quiz links for docsify integration

The links to the quizzes need to be edited for docsify to work. Investigating the proper format; it's possible we should pull the quizzes out of the .github folder.

Help, I'm new!

Hi, I'm new to GitHub and I want to start helping out in some project. Could someone be kind enough to just let me know how the code is compiled into one URL and how are they connected here in Github. I understand how the pull requests, branches, issues section, and a little bit of markdown work ( because I took the intro course from the lab ), but I don't get how all this code thrown in the code tab compiles/connects as one and contributes to building the software. Final question: is github only for building websites? Or how and where is the software built here used and applied elsewhere.
If this is not a project/server that encourages new guys then I deeply apologise and appreciate your time.
Thanks

How to complete the Course

Amazing Looking Course!

Hi guys! course looks amazing and I'm super enthusiastic about web development, but I don't fully understand how this course works, I'm still a newbie! can anyone help me out with this?

Lesson 1 | Pre-Lecture Quiz not working.

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A clear and concise description of what the bug is that the lesson 1 Pre-Lecture Quiz isn't working. When any option clicked then it isn't showing selection.

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1. Go to https://github.com/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners.
2. Scroll down to Lessons.
3. Click on Lesson 1 link.
4. Scroll down to Pre-Lecture Quiz.
5. Click on Pre-Lecture Quiz link.
6. Try clicking on any of the options available for the quiz questions.
7. See error

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When the option clicked then no selection appearing.

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Bank Project： localhost and 127.0.0.1 behave differently

When I run "npx live-server",the URL displays in the Edge is "127.0.0.1:8080/login".
But login action is blocked by browser because of CROS .
What the interesting part is when i change it to "lcoalhost",it works.

So ，i have found that server.js which under api folder just match "localhost" with regualr expression in line 30.
generally they should be same thing，do i need to PR for this？

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web开发初学者

可能是我基础太差了，有点子看不懂

Education

Translate to Malay Language

Hi there,I am Malaysian, I would like to contribute to this by translating into Malay Language('Bahasa Melayu').

Pre Lecture Quiz won't open in offline mode

While doing the course offline using docsify, in the first topic i.e.., 1-getting-started-lessons/1-intro-to-programming-languages/ there comes a pre-lecture-quiz.md the docsify transfers the link to the root .github folder where the file is not present hence giving a 404 status.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Start the offline way as described in the README
2. Scroll to 'http://localhost:3000/#/1-getting-started-lessons/1-intro-to-programming-languages/README'
3. Scroll down to 'pre-lecture-quiz' and click on it.
4. See the 404 error.
5. Error being that it goes to this while it should be going to this .
6. The problem is with the way Github(links starting from '.' are of the same folder) and Docsify(links starting from '.' are from the root folder) handles dynamic links .

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Teach me something

Links open blank page on github mobile

Issue :
Some links only showing blank page on github mobile app.

Source of issue :
There is no filename in the link.

Fix :
Replace all links like /1-getting-started-lessons/1-intro-to-programming-languages/ into /1-getting-started-lessons/1-intro-to-programming-languages/README.md.
Because of the first link only works on GitHub web, maybe.

Notes :
Resolving this will also help #3 (preventing docsify.js - page not found)

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MD RAJIB TALUKDAR

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Request for feedback: Quiz migration

Please give me your feedback on migrating our quizzes to Microsoft Forms. You can test the first pre-quiz here, let me know what you think!

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Small typo in Readme

This PR is just correcting a small typo I found.
#73

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typing game ： missing a </div> in html, only in readme

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PRAISE： you know what? This is amazing! especiall the game!

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Translate to HINDI

Hey,
I would like to take up the task to translate it to hindi.

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Web-Dev-For-Beginners

For a beginner, I hope to learn more

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typos

section: formatting text
template literals
The comment output is wrong
${myString1}, ${myString2}! //Hello World!

it should be:
Hello, World!

Translation / Localization Guide

Hey, its me again.
It would be great if there is a guide about adding localization.
Thanks.

Is the comparison operators right?

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in https://github.com/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners/blob/main/2-js-basics/3-making-decisions/README.md#comparison-operators-and-booleans said 5=>6 can run and the result is False

but it did not work

i think it should be >=

Game mirk

HOW CAN I GET YOU OUT OF MY COMPUTER

HOW CAN I GET YOU OUT OF MY COMPUTER

Originally posted by @p197132 in #48 (comment)

Switched comparative operators for <,>,<=,>= in README.md

This is fairly self-explanitory. I realize that the description explains the comparisons properly, but the symbol reads from left to right and are named as such.

Seeing a table with '<' in the first column and the large header of 'Greater than' in the next doesn't bode well for those who may not be mathematically inclined to begin with.

Food for thought.

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Help

Am new, and am I to learn PHP before JavaScript?

Offline support with PWA (Progressive Web Apps)

How about turning this repo into a PWA using docsify.js?

Web dev

How to get the answers of the quizzes

I have forked the repo and also edited the pre-lecture-quiz.md file. How do I know if my answers are correct or not?

for all videos, add a note to explain that it's a video and what it covers

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Video embeds are presented without context in several lessons and look like screenshots

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Link Not working

In Web-Dev-For-Beginners/1-getting-started-lessons/1-intro-to-programming-languages/README.md

For the Assignment section link is not working .

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