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2. Picture yourself typing a web address into a browser. You hit enter. Almost
3. immediately, the site you're looking for appears, and it's gorgeous. It elicits a
4. positive emotional response from you. Your eyes drink it all in; the simplicity,
5. the imagery, the text, the button placed at the center of the screen acting as a
7. reason for the site's existence is distilled down into that single button. You
8. might be booking a flight, watching a movie, or saving a life. You click the
9. button and you're off. You move through the site unimpeded graphics and
11. goal are obvious it's a place you enjoy spending time in and it's a place you
12. want to return to hi I'm Brian welcome to your five-day coding challenge
13. whether you're just curious about what's involved in software development or
14. you're considering a career change into the arena of software development this
15. is a great course to get you started over the five days we look at some of
16. the technologies that are responsible for the visual impact and user
17. experience that you would have undergone while on the site we just imagined the
18. challenges that you encounter will expose you to the three pillars of
19. modern front-end web software development that is HTML CSS and
20. JavaScript the structure the look and the logic of web applications so what
21. are we going to learn well we'll explore the fundamentals of HTML and how it
22. provides the content and structure to web applications we will explore the
23. fundamentals of CSS and discover how they dress up html and make it look
24. good we'll discover how javascript provides the logic for the bulk of
25. interactivity on web applications and we'll discover how to create web
26. applications that automatically respond and rearrange their user interface
27. elements according to the device on which they're being viewed along the way
28. you'll use these technologies to build a recipe website that looks as good on our
29. desktop as it does on a tablet or mobile device each day our learning platform
30. releases the lessons and challenges that you're required to undertake for that
31. day across the five days the learning material will gradually build on what
32. went before for example the first two days will help you get comfortable with
33. the core concepts and basic syntax while days three four and five will help you
34. to build the recipe website our content is structured around the philosophy of
35. micro learning in each unit we'll present you with three questions what is
36. it what does it do and how do you use it these questions will provide you with an
37. overview of the content you're about to be exposed to you'll also be presented
39. clicking on the transcript text takes you to the point where those words are
40. being spoken on the video you'll also encounter walkthrough videos where you
41. will see the actual code being typed out on the screen as a way of teaching you
42. the syntax and the concepts and you create and submit all your challenges
43. from within our learning platform you'll be presented with a brief overview of
44. what the challenge involves and that will then be reinforced by a detailed
45. description of the challenge within our code editor so take the five day
47. you
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