The Beginner Developer Learning Center (BDLC) for Web Developers is a centralized learning environment specifically targeted to beginning web programmers with a rich array of learning content that starts with the very basics, and guides you through step-by-step to becoming a fully-fledged web developer, with videos, tutorials, and code samples for Web development.
With a series of interactive, step-by-step tutorial programs, a student who has never been exposed to computer programming can learn how build their own simple Web sites with lessons and tutorials for absolute beginners to the world of Web development. Get started at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/web/tier1/. The lessons start at a very basic level with an introduction to general web programming concepts, and gradually work their way up in difficulty to guide people through creation of complete Web solutions. All lessons in the Beginner Developer Learning Center for Web Development are categorized into Tiers of difficultly to make course progression and selection more straightforward.
Introduction to the Web as a Platform
The purpose of this guide is to help you understand the environment in which a Web application runs, which includes the Internet, Web servers, browsers, network communications, resource identifiers, and markup language.
Beginning Website Development Module 1
Learn the fundamentals of building dynamic Web sites with ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer Express Edition using either the Visual Basic or Visual C# language in Module 1 of this Beginning Web Site Development tutorial.
Beginning Website Development Module 2
Learn how to build data-driven websites with ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer
Express Edition using either the Visual Basic or Visual C# language in Module 2
of this Beginning Web Site Development tutorial.