Hey, everybody, welcome to this new JavaScript course.
I'm Ivan Gomes and I will be your instructor.
I'm super glad to be joining you on this journey that you're just starting.
And if you've been my student before, you know that my courses, they start from the absolute beginning.
So you don't need any prior knowledge in JavaScript.
All you need is some basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.
And you're good to go.
If you think JavaScript is too complicated, if you've tried to learn it before and you had trouble,
I promise you this time is going to be different.
We are going to do a lot of real life examples.
There are a few lists of exercises.
We are going to do a couple of projects and by the end of the course you will be very comfortable with
writing code in JavaScript.
Before we get started, I need you to download the course material.
If you go to the right side of this video right below the name of this lesson, you will find the zip
file to download.
Then you can just uncompressed it on your desktop.
So make it easier to access.
So I'm gonna do it right now to show you.
So this is the file I've just downloaded from Udemy.
I'm going to extract to my desktop.
Here it is.
Now, if you want to can delete the zip file.
So just open the folder.
And as you can see, we have many, many HTML files.
Just click on any of them.
If you're not seeing this Google Chrome icon, I suggest you make Google Chrome the default program
for HTML files.
You can do it by right.
Clicking on the file and then choosing open with.
Then go to choose another app.
Then you can just choose Google Chrome from the list and check this box that says, always use this
app to open HTML files.
Then every time you click these files, they are going to open in Google Chrome.
So here it is.
This is the written course material.
So everything we talk from now on is going to be here.
You can come back here if you have any doubt.
If you go down, you can see that you have this index where you can easily find all the lessons from
the course.
You can click on them.
I have a lot of coding examples where you can easily copy.
So this material is for you.
And the best thing about it is not only the written content.
But this is also going to be our playground in this course.
So if you go to Visual Studio code and go to open folder.
Then you can open this folder that you just downloaded.
So here we have all the HTML files.
What we are going to do here is apply JavaScript on these pages.
So we are going to use these files not only to study, but we are also going to write a lot of JavaScript
code and interact with these pages.
If you go down here, you can see that we have a few lists of exercises.
So I'm going to click on this list of exercises, as you can see.
You are going to do all the exercises here.
So this course is going to be one hundred percent dynamic.
So now that you downloaded the course material and you have the first lesson open on Google Chrome and
all the folder open on Visual Studio Code, we are ready to get started.
Don't forget that you have some tools at your disposal to make your learning experience the best possible.
So here in the video player, you can turn on and off captions and transcript.
These are auto generated.
So they're not 100 percent accurate.
But if you need them, they can be very helpful. Iif you think I'm going too slow.
You can try to increase the speed of the video.
You can try to maybe one point five or one point seventy five.
I personally like to watch courses in one point five.
Once you get used to it, it's really easy to understand.
And you can finish the course way faster if you think I'm going too fast.
On the other hand.
You can try maybe zero point seventy five zero point five.
So you have all these speeds to learn at your own pace.
If you're going through the course and you see something interesting, you can leave a note and then
you can see all your notes here.
Something else that is important to say, if you're watching a video and all of a sudden the screen
gets a bit blurry.
This is because the quality of the video is automatically set.
So if this happens to you, you can go here to settings and just force the quality to 720p.
Maybe it's going to take a bit more time for the video to load.
But you won't get the blurry screen.
Last but not least, from time to time, Udemy is going to ask you to leave a review for this course.
It's really important to me that you take your time and leave not only a number of stars, but write
something.
Just tell me, why do you like the most about the scores and why other students should take it?
This is really helpful.
This is gonna help me reach more students.
So I would really appreciate your help on this.
So that was all I wanted to say for now.
We are ready to start learning Shava script.
So in the next video, we're going to talk.
What does JavaScript and why we should learn it.
We are also going to write our first lines of code.
So we'll see you in the next video.