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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 knowing 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
that would an assignment to do 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 that next module.
As already mentioned each module is divided into multiple lessons.
Each lesson itself is organized in those module, a lesson starts 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'll 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 Home page,
you will find a lot of details about the course there.
Now, 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'll be a set of learning objectives for the 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 Angular.
So 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 the particular lesson.
I would urge you to watch these videos first.
Following this set of videos, you will have 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
the 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.
In addition, the exercise instructions will also contain code
snippets that will be useful for you to do your exercise.
I would strongly urge you not to simply cut and paste these code snippets.
Instead, understand exactly what you're doing in each step, and then
either type in the code yourself or copy and paste the code from the instructions.
Furthermore, for every video, if there is a setup presentation slides, those
would be available in the downloads to the right of this video there on the webpage.
Also, if you go to the additional resources that are provided for you at
the end of each lesson, you will also have links to the PDFs of the presentation.
So there are two places from where you can download the PDFs of
the presentations about the the concepts and technologies for each module.
You'll also have links to angular documentation about the specific
concepts and technologies covered in In that particular lesson.
I can also give you links to articles, blogs,
or additional resources from the internet that might be useful or
relevant to this particular topic of that lesson.
I would suggest to you to spend some time looking up these additional resources,
so that they may aid you in also furthering your understanding
of that specific topics covered in that particular lesson.
To summarize, the learning resources in each lesson is organized
into a set of video lectures illustrating the concepts and technologies.
Then hands-on exercises, which include both step by step
instructions in the form of a video, and also written instructions for
the exercises and additional resources that might be useful for
you relevant to that particular lesson.
Also, as I mentioned, at the end of each module, you will have an assignment due.
The tasks to be performed in that assignment will be illustrated
through a video where all the tasks that you need to do in the assignment
will be shown to you.
Then after you will have a written document
that explains the details of that assignment.
This written document will give you access to the resources that I will require for
this assignment.
Following that, you will have the set of objectives and
outcomes for the particular assignment given to you.
Then the requirements of the assignment will be specified in terms
of the set of tasks that you need to complete.
And the steps for each task will be illustrated there.
You will also be given a snapshot of
the webpage to show you the state of the webpage.
And the completion of this particular assignment,
with the specific tasks being highlighted in that snap shot.
At the end of the document, you'll also be given the review criteria, the criteria
based on which your submission will be judged for this particular assignment.
As you embark on this course, let me quickly remind you
of a Sanskrit subhashita or a wise saying about learning.
It goes as follows, [FOREIGN].
What this means is that one-fourth
of your learning comes from your teacher.
One-fourth of your learning comes through your own intelligence.
As you do the steps, use your own intellect to analyze and
understand what your doing.
One-fourth of your learning comes from your classmates.
So this is where interacting with
your colleagues that are also taking the scores at the same time
through the discussion forums will also help you to understand the concepts.
And finally, the last fourth comes only through experience, or only with time.
As you learn and make use of the concepts and technologies that you've learned
in this course, you'll begin to understand more and more about this particular topic.
Let me leave you with my best wishes for you, so
that you would get the most out of your journey through this course.
Wish you all the best.
S