

The projects start small and become increasingly complex by the end of the 12 week cycle. This curriculum was designed to be flexible and fun and can be taken in whole or in part. 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. We also wrote several starter lessons in JavaScript basics to introduce concepts, paired with video from the " Beginners Series to: JavaScript" collection of video tutorials, some of whose authors contributed to this curriculum. 🎓 You can take the first few lessons in this curriculum as a Learn Path on Microsoft Learn!īy ensuring that the content aligns with projects, the process is made more engaging for students and retention of concepts will be augmented.

By the end of this series, students will have built a typing game, a virtual terrarium, a 'green' browser extension, a 'space invaders' type game, and a business-type banking app, and will have learned the basics of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS along with the modern toolchain of today's web developer. We have chosen two pedagogical tenets while building this curriculum: ensuring that it is project-based and that it includes frequent quizzes. 🎥 Click the image above for a video about the project and the folks who created it! Pedagogy For further study, we recommend Microsoft Learn and by watching the videos mentioned below. Another idea would be to form a study group with friends and go through the content together. Try to create the projects by comprehending the lessons rather than copying the solution code however that code is available in the /solutions folders in each project-oriented lesson. Students, to use this curriculum on your own, fork the entire repo and complete the exercises on your own, starting with a pre-lecture quiz, then reading the lecture and completing the rest of the activities. We'd love your feedback in our discussion forum! Teachers, we have included some suggestions on how to use this curriculum.

Hearty thanks to our authors Jen Looper, Chris Noring, Christopher Harrison, Jasmine Greenaway, Yohan Lasorsa, Floor Drees, and sketchnote artist Tomomi Imura! Getting Started Our project-based pedagogy allows you to learn while building, a proven way for new skills to 'stick'. Each lesson includes pre- and post-lesson quizzes, written instructions to complete the lesson, a solution, an assignment and more.

Web Development for Beginners - A CurriculumĪzure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum all about JavaScript, CSS, and HTML basics.
