Microsoft Offers Free Web Development Program for Beginners
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So, The software giant, Microsoft has released a free curriculum for total beginners to both programming and web development. The program called 'Web-Dev-for-Beginners' is hosted on GitHub with links to YouTube videos.
This is a 12-week long program that includes a 24 lesson curriculum that includes JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Each lesson has pre and post-lesson quizzes.
Curriculum Structure:
- Optional sketch note
- 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
With the help of this program, students will be able to work on real-world web development projects. Here are the concepts that students will learn
- Introduction to Programming and Tools of the Trade
- The basics of GitHub includes working with a team
- Accessibility
- JavaScript Data Types
- Functions and Methods
- Making Decisions with JS
- Arrays and Loops
- HTML in Practice
- CSS in Practice
- JavaScript Closures, DOM manipulation
- Build a Typing Game
- Working with Browsers
- Building a form, calling an API, and storing variables in local storage
- Background processes in the browser, web performance
- More Advanced Game Development with JavaScript
- Drawing to canvas
- Moving elements around the screen
- Collision detection
- Keeping score
- Ending and restarting the game
- HTML Templates and Routes in a Web App
- Build a Login and Registration Form
- Methods of Fetching and Using Data
- Concepts of State Management
You can enroll in the program on the official website.
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