Review of the exercise files

- [Voiceover] Later in this course, you will get hands-on with building your first Universal Windows app. To help you, there are exercise files that you can download to use and follow along. There are two ways to get the files. The first is to download from this site using the links on the course page. You can also download the files from GitHub, which is an online repository for code that is used by millions of developers, worldwide. When you download the files, they'll be in a zip folder. Uncompress the folder and put them somewhere on your computer. I'll use the desktop in my examples in this course.

In the folder, you will see multiple folders, one for each movie where we will build our Windows app. Within each of these is a Start folder and a Finish folder. The Start folder is the project that we begin the movie with. The Finish folder is the project after we have added or changed code in the movie. You can use the Finish folder if you are stuck and want to see the changes that are made. Or if you need a finished version to experiment with on your own, after the movie is complete. That's about it. If you start the course and take some time off, be sure to check to see if there are any updates to the exercise files.

The tools and technologies that are used to build Windows apps can change and the exercise files may need to be updated to work with any changes Microsoft makes. On GitHub, you'll see what files have changed and when, so be sure to check, to avoid any problems.