# Introduction

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Welcome to the Eleven Fifty JavaScript Cohort! We're excited to have you with us. We've got a lot of fun work planned for you, and we hope you enjoy your experience as a whole.

## PreWork

Before you come to class, we'd like you to get started with some warm up items. You can expect this to take between 10-20 hours of your time. If you have any trouble, please reach out immediately on the Slack channel.

## GitBooks

For each portion of the course, we'll provide you with a GitBook. You'll get a new one every 1-2 weeks, depending on the phase of our course. We've designed and written these GitBooks with you as the students in mind. They are intended to supplement your learning and provide a means for you to review the material that we cover during class time.

Throughout this book, source material, and other documentation, you will notice formatting and jargon that may be unfamiliar to you. It is important to learn vocabulary that refers to concepts or constructs in programming. You may find this "learning a language so that you can learn a language" to be challenging, but rest assured that the terminology will come with time and associating the words with concepts. In this book **bolded** or _italicized_ text indicates something that you should pay special attention to. `Text that looks like this is used to indicate code you'll be writing. This may also be used to clarify a folder structure or show what commands executed on the command line should appear as.` [Links](master) will be found periodically in this book. These links may connect you to an outside resource, or send you to a tool that may be needed to perform a task. If you see a link, please assume it's something we believe to be valuable to your success and **follow it**.

## Getting Started

Without saying too much more, let's get started by installing a few items in the next module. Go ahead and click [here](javascript-library/0-prework/1-getting-started/installs) to get started.
