Web Development for Beginners - Curriculum

Learn di fundamentals of web development wit our 12-week complete course by Microsoft Cloud Advocates. Each of di 24 lessons dey dig into JavaScript, CSS, and HTML wit hands-on projects lak terrariums, browser extensions, and space games. Take part for quizzes, discussions, and praktikal assignments. Sharpen your skills and make sure say you sabi well wit our effective project-based learning method. Begin your coding journey today! Join di Azure AI Foundry Discord Community Follow these steps to start to use these resources:

Fork di Repository: Click
Clone di Repository: git clone https://github.com/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners.git
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🌐 Multi-Language Support

Supported via GitHub Action (Automated & Always Up-to-Date)

If you want to add more translations languages wey dem support dey listed here

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Visit Student Hub page wey you go find beginner resources, Student packs and ways to get free certificate voucher. Na dis page you go want bookmark and dey check every time as we dey change content monthly.

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New Challenge dey inside, look for "GitHub Copilot Agent Challenge 🚀" inside most chapters. Na new challenge for you to complete wit GitHub Copilot and Agent mode. If you never use Agent mode before, e fit not just generate text but e fit create and edit files, run commands and more.

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Lessons cover everything from basics to RAG.
Interact wit historical characters using GenAI and our companion app.
Fun and interesting story, you go dey time travel! Each lesson get assignment to complete, knowledge check and challenge to guide you as you dey learn topics like:
Prompting and prompt engineering
Text and image app generation
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🌱 How To Start

Learners, for each lesson, start wit pre-lecture quiz then follow by reading the lecture material, finish the different activities and check if you sabi well wit post-lecture quiz. Make your learning sweet, join wit your classmates make una work on di projects together! Discussions dey encouraged for our discussion forum where our moderators team go ready to answer your questions. To take your education go higher, we strongly recommend make you check Microsoft Learn for extra study materials.

📋 How to set up your environment

Dis curriculum get development environment wey ready! As you start, you fit choose to run di curriculum for inside Codespace (browser-base, no need install environment), or run am for your computer using text editor like Visual Studio Code.

Create your repository

To make e easy for you to save your work, e better make you create your own copy of dis repository. You fit do am by clicking di Use this template button for top of di page. E go create new repository for your GitHub account wey get copy of di curriculum. Follow dis steps:

Fork di Repository: Click di "Fork" button for top-right corner of dis page.
Clone di Repository: git clone https://github.com/microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners.git

Run di curriculum for Codespace

For your copy of dis repository wey you create, click di Code button then select Open with Codespaces. E go create new Codespace for you to work inside.

Run di curriculum locally for your computer

To run dis curriculum for your computer, you need text editor, browser and command line tool. Our first lesson, Introduction to Programming Languages and Tools of the Trade, go show you different options for all these tools make you fit choose wetin go work best for you. We recommend make you use Visual Studio Code as editor, because e get built-in Terminal. You fit download Visual Studio Code here.

Clone your repository for your computer. You fit do dis by clicking di Code button den copy di URL: CodeSpace Den, open Terminal inside Visual Studio Code and run dis command dem, change wit di URL wey you just copy:

git clone <your-repository-url>

Open di folder inside Visual Studio Code. You fit do dis by clicking File > Open Folder and select di folder wey you just clone.

📂 Every lesson get:

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
challenge
supplemental reading
assignment
post-lesson quiz

🗃️ Lessons

🏫 Pedagogy

Our curriculum design based on two main pedagogy principles:

project-based learning
frequent quizzes Di program teach fundamentals of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, plus di latest tools and techniques wey web developers dey use nowadays. Students go get chance to develop hands-on experience by building typing game, virtual terrarium, eco-friendly browser extension, space-invader style game, plus banking app for business. By di end of di series, students go get solid understanding of web development. By making sure say di content dey align wit projects, di process go dey more engaging for students and e go help dem hold di concepts well well. We still write some starter lessons for JavaScript basics to introduce concepts dem, plus video from di "Beginners Series to: JavaScript" collection of video tutorials, some authors self contribute to dis curriculum. Also, low-stakes quiz before class set student mind for learning topic, while second quiz after class help increase retention. Dis curriculum get flexible design and na fun to use and you fit take am full or just part. Projects start small and dey grow complex by end of di 12-week cycle. Even though we try avoid introducing JavaScript frameworks so that you fit focus for basic skills wey web developer need before to adopt framework, next good step to complete dis curriculum na to learn Node.js through another video collection call "Beginner Series to: Node.js".

🧭 Offline access

You fit run dis documentation offline by using Docsify. Fork dis repo, install Docsify for your local machine, then for di root folder for dis repo, type docsify serve. Website go dey serve for port 3000 for your localhost: localhost:3000.

📘 PDF

You fit find PDF of all di lessons here.

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LangChain

Azure / Edge / MCP / Agents

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Core Learning

Copilot Series

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License

Dis repository get MIT license. See di LICENSE file for more info.

Disclaimer: Dis document don translate wit AI translation service Co-op Translator. Even though we try make e correct, abeg sabi say automated translations fit get mistakes or wahala. Di original document for im own language na di main correct source. If na serious matter, better make human pro translate am. We no go responsible for any wrong understanding or wrong meaning wey fit show because of dis translation.