The class will be starting on Chapter 1, Module 1.
https://webdevschool.iimagine-websolutions.com/book-1-chapter-1-mod-1
This site is free. So feel free to peruse through the lesson modules at your own pace.
Software
You can follow along with the class hands on at home using your favorite text editor.
For instance you can use Notepad which comes with windows or TextPad which only takes a few minutes to download and install.
NotePad
Notepad will be the easiest since it already comes installed on Windows. But it has very little formatting and will be the most cumbersome to work with.
TextPad
TextPad only takes a minute to download and install and has much better formatting for your code then Notepad does.
Install TextPad from here: https://textpad.com/home
Click the Download button at the top and download the 64 bit version for windows.
Visual Studio 2022
Visual Studio takes a little more work to install but it is the most robust editor with the most features and the nicest to work with although it can be very resource hungry.
Some of the features I like in Visual Studio include:
Color Coding
In the following image the HTML elements and CSS styles are color coded in brown and red respectively.
Intellisense
Intellisense pops up options for tags and attributes so you don’t have to memorize the whole HTML and CSS standards.
Expand/Collapse sections of code
Visual Studio also lets you expand/collapse sections of code. It also helps once you’re code gets longer and there is a lot of indenting so you can more easily see which HTML closing tag ends each start tag.
The next two images show the <Style> tag expanded and collapsed.
ASP.Net Core (Web Programming)
Visual Studio is also the defacto IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for ASP.Net Core programming and development. If you follow along with all of my HTML lessons and advance to ASP.Net Core programming the intellisense will come in very handy for C# development. C# is the programming language for the .Net Framework and I’ll use it extensively in the ASP.Net Core chapters.
Download Visual Studio
Visual Studio takes a little while to install. But if you want to give it a go you can download it from the following URL
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/#download
From there you can select the Community Edition which is totally free and will have all the tools you need to follow all of the examples throughout my book.
Now double click the file in your downloads folder.
On the Visual Studio Installer Screen, click Continue.
Once you click continue it will take some time for the required files to load up. So go get some coffee and come back.
Step through the installation instructions but pay special attention to the workloads tab. Make sure you have the “ASP.Net and Web Development” workload component selected. You can always come back later and install more components if you need to.
