Higher Nationals in Computing

Unit 3: Employability and Professional Development

Session 2: In this session will involve creating a personal e-Portfolio in which to record evidence of achievements in your professional development.

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Session Activities

  • 10 min Introduce Visual Studio 2015» Discuss the different project types available in Visual Studio
  • 10 min Create a Web Forms Application.» Name it HN16_UserNamePortfolio, make sure that a folder for the solution is selected, and that Git version control is selected.
  • 20 min Demonstrate the use of basic HTML tags by using a simple html page and adding placeholder text, paragraphs, lists, tables, images and hyperlinks.
  • 5 min Use Visual Studio to load your page into the Chrome Browser and check how it looks.

Useful Resources

  • Video:HTML5 Part 1 A very clear introduction to the basic elements of an HTML5 document
  • Video:HTML5 Part 2 An example of using headings and css (but not used in the best way)
  • Video:HTML5 Part 3 An example of using images and hyperlinks (but again using styles in the html which is regarded as very poor practice!!! Also contains examples of poor html code layout!!!)

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