Before you embark on this course,
let me take you through a quick tour of
all the learning resources that are available in this course and how
best you can make use of these learning resources to
maximize the benefit of doing this course.
The course itself is organized into four modules.
Each module has an overarching theme that guides the design of the module.
A module itself is divided into multiple lessons,
each lesson concentrating on one specific topic.
There would be an assignment due at the end of each module.
Each module typically corresponds to one calendar week of work.
So, this whole course could be completed in four weeks time,
but please take the time necessary for you to
completely understand before you move on to the next module.
As already mentioned, each module is divided into multiple lessons.
Each lesson itself is organized in this manner.
A lesson starts out with a set of objectives
and outcomes being specified for that lesson.
Then following that, you will have a set of videos that
introduce you to the concepts and technologies
on which this particular lesson is concentrating on.
This will be followed by one or more hands-on exercises that will help you
to understand the concepts and technologies by doing the exercises.
At the end of each lesson,
you will also have additional resources which will point you to
resources that might be useful for the topic covered in this particular lesson.
Let's take a quick tour of your course page.
So, as you go to the course homepage,
you will find a lot of details about the course there,
and you'll also notice that the course itself is organized into weeks.
Each week corresponding to one module.
Let's visit one particular module to learn how the module itself is structured.
So, as you go to each module,
you will see that the module will have
a brief introduction on the theme of that particular module.
Then there will be a set of learning objectives for that particular module.
Following that, you will have a set of lessons.
As I mentioned earlier,
each lesson will be organized into a set of items.
Let's take a quick tour of this lesson on introduction to Node.js and NPM.
As you click and go into that lesson,
you will notice that at the start of the lesson,
you will have the objectives and outcomes for the lesson explicitly specified.
I would urge you to take a few moments to read through this document.
Because this will clearly set up the goals for this lesson and
also tell you exactly what you will achieve at the end of that particular lesson.
Following that, you will have a set of videos that will explain
some of the concepts and technologies relevant to that particular lesson.
I would urge you to watch these videos first.
Following the set of videos,
you will have a one or more hands-on exercises for that particular lesson.
The exercises themselves will be illustrated through a video which gives
you step-by-step progress of that particular exercise.
So, I would strongly urge you to watch this video in
order to understand how to do the exercise.
Also, in the exercise,
I will explain a lot of details
about why each step is being performed in that particular exercise.
Now, in addition to the video illustration of the exercise,
you will also have a summary of
the instructions for that particular exercise
given as a separate document following that video.
The objectives and outcomes for that particular exercise will be listed out.
Then each step will be illustrated briefly in this particular document here.
So, once you watch the video,
you can also use this exercise instructions as
a guide as you perform your own exercise routine.