MTA HTML5 Application Development Fundamentals

About this course

This is an entry level course for anyone who is looking to start their career in technology and programming; designing and creating apps or websites.

Throughout this course will with be guided through HTML5 which is three different types of code; HTML, CSS, JavaScript. By learning this world renowned mark-up language you will be able to plan, design, create and deploy interactive websites, apps, animations and more.

This course is broken down into four sessions which are led by an expert in this field. As well as the tutorials, you will be able to take part in interactive labs and have access to pre/post test questions.

The content within this course will help you gain the knowledge required to sit the Microsoft Technology Associate exam.

There are four sessions in this course: 

Session 1

Section A - MTA HTML5 Introduction: Welcome, How to Study for the 98-375 Exam.

Section B - HTML5 Basics: What is HTML?, Tag Rules and Attributes, The First Four Tags and DOCTYPE, Paragraphs, Headings, Hyperlinks, Formatting, Strong and Emphasis Tags, Nesting, Entities, The Mark Tag, Other New HTML5 Tags. 

Section C - Add and Configure Images: The Image Tag, Figures and Captions, Canvas, Scalable Vector Graphics, Choosing Canvas or SVG. 

Section D - Media in HTML5: Video, Audio. 

Section E - Organise Content: Tables, Table Formatting and Captions, The Thead, Tfoot and Tbody Tags, Unordered Lists, Ordered Lists and Definition Lists, Sections, Articles, The Aside and HR Tags, The Nav Tag, Headers and Footers. 

Section F – Forms: Build a Form, The Input Tag, More Input Tags, Select and Text Area Tags, Data Validation. 

Section G – Session 1 Recap: Domain 2 Test Tips. 

Session 2 

Section A – Core CSS Concepts: Purpose of CSS, Inline Styles, Internal Style Sheets, Classes, External Style Sheets, IDs and Imports, Inheritance and Overrides, Style Inheritance, Content Flow, Troubleshooting CSS, Floating Text, Absolute Positioning, Content Overflow.

Section B – CSS and UI Content: Box Layouts, Flexbox, Scaling, Order and Arrange Content, Grid Layout and Content Properties, Grid Templates. 

Section C – CSS and Content Flow: Regions, Columns, Hyphenatio, Positioned Floats. 

Section D – CSS and Graphics, Graphic Effects: Rounded Corners and Shadows, Transparency and Gradients, Web Open Font Format, 2-D and 3-D Transformations, Rotations, Skews, Animations, SVG Filter Effects, Canvas. 

Section E – Session 2 Recap: Domain 3 Test Tips. 

Session 3

Section A – JavaScript Introduction: What is JavaScript?, First JavaScript Example, Create and Use Functions, jQuery and Other Third-Party Libraries. 

Section B – Update the UI with JavaScript: Locate and Access Elements, Update Content Using Event Handling, Show and Hide Elements, Add Elements. 

Section C – Animations with JavaScript: Animation Overview, Manipulate a Canvas, Animate Images, Shapes and Graphics. 

Section D – JavaScript and Data: Overview of Accessing Data, Send and Receive Data, Transmit and Parse Complex Objects, Load and Save Files, AppCache, Data Types, Validate Forms, Test Validation, Cookies, Local Storage. 

Session 4

Section A – Platform Fundamentals: App Packages and Containers, Credentials and Permission Sets, Host Processes, HTML5 and Tablet Applications. 

Section B – Manage Application States: Understand States, Local and Session Storage. 

Section C – Debug and Test Touch-Based Apps: Debug Capabilities, Touch Gestures and Testing. 

Section D – Session 4 Recap: Doman 1 Test Tips.

Section E – Course Recap: Final Test Tips and Conclusion.