70-480 Certification
November 5, 2012 16 Comments
Today I received my Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Specialist, code 70-480 Microsoft certification. Best of all it was absolutely free, and still is if you get to work now. I thought it would be useful to some of you if I shared some of the resources I used.
Channel 9’s Jump Start series is a very good introduction, although I wouldn’t say it is enough. It doesn’t cover JavaScript objects, inheritance, WebSockets, Geolocation and some other topics. Another helpful resource is Chris’s blog post that tries to provide links for each measured skill defined in the exams description.
In my opinion the best way to prepare, and the one that helped me the most is Pluralsight’s HTML5 content. I recommend the following courses:
I would not promise that you will ace the exam if you go through all these resources, but if you also have some experience with your own applications you have a pretty good chance.
As a side note ( maybe I should have used the <aside> element for this 🙂 ) I already got to put my new knowledge to good use. You know how there’s sometimes that YouTube music video that you would like to listen to over and over? Unfortunately YouTube does not provide a way to automatically restart the video when finished. As luck would have it however, YouTube does use the HTML5 video element. You can open up the browsers developer tools, look up the video element (of course you need a browser that supports the new HTML5 Media API) and add a loop=”loop” attribute. This will bend YouTube to your will.
Hope this gives some of you the push you need to get out there and get certified.