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3 | 3 | >Before you come to your first session at HackYourFuture please go through this document, read, watch and check if you are ready to start your HackYourFuture adventure! |
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5 | | -### Read these Chapters from the <a href="https://www.frontendhandbook.com" target="_blank">Front-end Handbook</a> |
6 | | - * <a href="https://www.frontendhandbook.com/what-is-a-FD.html" target="_blank">What Is a Front-End Developer?</a> |
7 | | - * <a href="https://www.frontendhandbook.com/practice.html" target="_blank">Part I. The Front-End Practice</a> |
| 5 | +### Read these Chapters from the [Front-end Handbook](https://www.frontendhandbook.com) |
| 6 | + * [What Is a Front-End Developer?](https://frontendmasters.com/books/front-end-handbook/2017/what-is-a-FD.html) |
| 7 | + * [Part I. The Front-End Practice](https://frontendmasters.com/books/front-end-handbook/2017/practice.html) |
| 8 | + * From Part II. read: [Self Directed Learning](https://www.frontendhandbook.com/learning/self-direct-learning.html), also read [Learn HTML/CSS](https://frontendmasters.com/books/front-end-handbook/2017/learning/html-css.html) |
8 | 9 | * Read [lesson 1: building your first web page](http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/building-your-first-web-page/) |
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| 11 | +### After you finish reading ask yourself the following questions: |
| 12 | + * What is a Front-End Developer? |
| 13 | + * What is A web browser? |
| 14 | + * Wat are considered as Front-End Dev Skills? |
| 15 | + * What are good references/resources to use to learn on your own? (have you bookmarked them??) |
| 16 | + * What is the difference between HTML and CSS? |
| 17 | + * What are HTML elements, tags, and attributes? |
| 18 | + * How do you setup up the structure of your first web page? |
| 19 | + * What are CSS selectors, properties, and values? |
| 20 | + * How do you work with CSS selectors? |
| 21 | + * How do you reference CSS in your HTML? |
| 22 | + * Why would you use CSS resets? |
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10 | 24 | >Don't worry if you don't understand everything, but make sure to prepare some questions for your first session about the reading material. |
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12 | 26 | ### Watch these videos: |
13 | 27 | * <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LPdttKXPc" target="_blank">How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes</a> |
14 | 28 | * <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjDrMKZWCt0" target="_blank">How Web Browsers Work</a> |
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| 30 | +### Add a card in Trello: |
| 31 | +* In Trello, create a card with your name (there is an example in there) and add the link to your CodePen that contains you application assignment. |
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16 | 33 | ### Check double check: |
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18 | 35 | ### Are you signed up for: |
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20 | 37 | - Slack |
21 | 38 | - Trello |
22 | | -- KhanAcademy (join the class you've been invited to) |
23 | | -- Udacity |
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25 | 40 | ### Do you have a basic understanding of the following tools: |
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27 | 42 | - Slack |
28 | 43 | - Trello |
29 | 44 | - Our Github repository |
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31 | | ->If the answer to this is 'no', don't panic, you can always ask help in Slack, but before you do, please first try and see if you can find some information about the above tools yourself. |
| 46 | +>If the answer to this is 'no', don't panic, you can always ask help in Slack, but before you do, please first try and see if you can find some information about the above tools yourself (hint: ask Google first). |
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33 | 48 | ### Do you have a text editor installed? |
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35 | 50 | Any of the ones listed below is fine. |
| 51 | +- [Visual studio](https://code.visualstudio.com/) |
36 | 52 | - [Brackets](http://brackets.io) |
37 | 53 | - [Atom](https://atom.io/) |
38 | | -- [Visual studio](https://code.visualstudio.com/) |
39 | 54 | - [Spacemacs](http://spacemacs.org/) |
40 | 55 | - [Sublime (not free)](https://www.sublimetext.com/) |
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42 | | -If you have no experience or preference when it comes to working with text editor just install Brackets, you can always switch to another editor later on in the program. |
| 57 | +If you have no experience or preference when it comes to working with text editor just install Visual studio, you can always switch to another editor later on in the program. |
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44 | 59 | ### Curriculum |
45 | 60 | Don't forget to take a look at the [HackYourFuture curriculum](https://github.com/HackYourFuture/curriculum). Go through it and make sure you have an idea of what you will learn at HackYourFuture :muscle: |
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