codex-lv2-may-2025

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Level 1: Project Planning & Setup

Goal: Plan your capstone project and set up the development environment.

📋 IMPORTANT: Complete Planning First!

Before you start coding, you must work through the planning document:

Complete all sections of the planning document before proceeding with Level 1. This will help you understand the project requirements, technical specifications, and success criteria.

What You’ll Do

Create a new project folder and set up all the necessary files to get started.

Instructions

Make a new folder for your project named capstone-project
Inside, create these files:
- index.html
- app.js
- styles.css
- helpers-full.js (download from class repository)
- README.md (copy from EXAMPLE_README.md template)

ℹ Third-Party File Info

Download helpers-full.js from the class repo: https://github.com/rmccrear/codex-lv2-may-2025/tree/main/guides/week5-event-driven-apps/other-dev-files

Place it in your project folder before linking it in index.html.

✅ Check

Open your project folder in VS Code and verify you can see all 4 files:

index.html
app.js (we will use this instead of script.js)
styles.css
helpers-full.js (we will use this instead of helpers.js since it has a few more functions to use.)
README.md

If any files are missing, create them before moving to Level 2.

Note: What about .gitignore and secret-variables.js? These will be covered in a later level. (Before we add secrets.)

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