From the course: Getting Started as a Full-Stack Web Developer

How to use the exercise files

From the course: Getting Started as a Full-Stack Web Developer

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How to use the exercise files

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- [Narrator] This course includes exercise files with all the programming code that you'll see on the screen. You don't need them to understand everything the course has to offer though. That's because the goal is to show you different aspects of web development, rather than teach you the details. But by studying the exercise files and comparing them to documentation for the technologies described, you'll get a kickstart into learning those technologies. Each directory contains the exercise files for a specific video. 03-01 for example, has the files for chapter three, video one, which is titled display information with HTML. Every video is exercise file contains a subdirectory labeled begin. This contains what you need at the beginning of the video. If anything is added to the exercise files during the video you'll also find a subdirectory labeled end, for example in 03-02 images, we have both a begin and an end. This obviously, it's what the files should look like at the end of the video. I'll be showing and editing these files, using the free code editor Visual Studio Code, commonly known as VS Code. You can use any code editor you like, but if you want your screen to look like mine, I give you instructions on where to get VS Code in the video, create and change pages with a code editor, that's in the first chapter. Chapter two shows you how to get online with web hosting. From then on, we assume that you've actually signed up for a web host. You'll need to do this eventually anyway to practice web development and to make your websites public. Starting with chapter four, when you learn about the server based programming language PHP, you won't be able to run the code provided without a web host, unless you set up the required servers on your own computer at home. But again, you'll get value from watching me work with the code. Even if you don't have a web host at this point. In chapter five, you'll start to see the first steps to develop a hotel reservation system from then on, the set of exercise files for each video includes the entire website for our fictional hotel. Here you see the exercise files, which I've uploaded to my web host. I've set these up on my server to make those files available at my own domain which happens to be webdevcourse.tgeller.com. This domain is only for demonstration purposes. By the time you see this course there won't be anything there. You'll see a bit about how to set up your own domain in the chapter two video, IP addresses, domain names and certificates. Anyway, let's say I want to see the exercise files at the beginning of chapter five, video one. The ones inside the begin directory, I would go to 05-01, open it and begin as you've already seen. In a browser, I could go to webdevcourse.tgeller.com/exercise-files 05-01-projecthtml/begin, like you see in the URL right here and I hit return and indeed I go to that folder. But to make things easier, I'll copy each video's exercise file to a top level directory named active and I'll do that off screen, you won't see me do that. So whenever you see me go to webdevcourse.tgeller.com/active in a browser like this, you're seeing the current videos, exercise files. I know that's a lot to take in, but don't worry. It'll be much clearer as you see it in action. So let's go.

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