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Class 0: Intro to VanGuard School

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Introduction

Welcome to the second edition of the VanGuard School.

Class Description

The cohort will work as follows:

  • Students are expected to complete the assignments within the time provided, failure to do so many times may result in expulsion from the cohort.
  • Students will be provided with short-term and long-term assignments. The short-term assignments are to be completed within the time provided whereas the long-term projects stretch over multiple weeks.
  • Students will be paired up in groups and will have to work on the larger project as a group so that they may learn how to work on a project with a team.

In order to move forward we need to decide a code editor to work in, I recommend vs code. It is a code editor used by many developers and has a rich ecosystem of extensions which extend its capabilites.

Some extensions that are useful moving forward are:

  • Live Server
  • Live Preview
  • Live Share
  • Live Share Extensions Pack
  • ESLint
  • Prettier

Assignment

The first assignment for this class is to get vs code setup and all the basic extensions installed and ready for future classes. You may follow the instructions in this video to know what to do it. The code for the assignment is available in this gist. Once the assignment is complete please submit a screenshot in the relevant channel in the discord server.

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