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Hello, everyone, and welcome to our course overview lecture, as well as our course success lecture,

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which is basically geared to giving you the best course thinking experience possible to make sure you

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are successful during the taking of the course.

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As a quick favor to me, please don't skip this lecture as we do cover a lot of useful material and

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it will be pretty brief.

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So we're going to talk about useful tips for going through the course, how to get help during the course,

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where to find the course files and how to use the student chat channel.

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So let's talk about some useful tips while you're actually taking the course.

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Keep in mind, the video player settings can actually be used to speed up or slow down the videos.

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You should see an icon at the bottom of the video player in order to speed up or slow down.

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You'll also probably want to make sure to view the actual videos and 10 quality.

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We upload all our videos and 10 ATP.

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But sometimes the automatic buffering will actually make it to a lower quality.

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So just keep that in mind, you want to set it to the highest quality.

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Also, you can use the Udemy app to download videos, of course lectures, and to make sure to use the

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Q&A forums.

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There's lots of previous discussion available there.

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Speaking of which, let's talk about getting help in this course.

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Now, if you have a platform level issue, these are things like maybe your video playback has issues

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where you have audio issues, or maybe you have more questions about certification after completing

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the course or you have an issue of payment.

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Those are actually all platform level issues that Udemy is best equipped to help you with, and you

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can email them at support Udemy dot com.

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Or you can actually check out the support page on Udemy.

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You can do a Google search for Udemy support, and they have ways of actually directly entering tickets

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there.

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Now, let's talk about how to get help with the actual course content.

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Before posting to the question and answer forums that we have inside the course, please make sure to

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check for typos in your code.

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It's super easy to actually make a typo mistake.

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I do it myself all the time.

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So you want to make sure that you use our provided files that double check for this.

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And during the course, I'm actually going to show you some common typos and errors to try to equip

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you to debug your own software issues.

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So things you want to do is double check against the course notes.

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Maybe do a quick Google or Stack Overflow search given your air code.

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That's actually probably the fastest way to fix your own issue.

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They just do a Google search for the error message you get back.

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Pretty much the first hip is always going to have the answer.

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Then you want to do a search for the Q&A in the course.

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They want to check out the previous fake lecture and you can always submit and you question in the Q&A

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forums, please.

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When you're submitting a new question, give us details on what you've tried, as well as a screenshot

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of the error or your code.

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And then just make sure to share the full error message, don't just share something like, Hey, I

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got an error when I try to run this or this doesn't work, give as much detail and information as possible

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if there's really not enough information to help you out.

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We're going to wait until you post enough information before replying in the Q&A forum, so please keep

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that in mind.

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Also, please keep in mind that we cannot help with your personal homework or projects outside of the

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course material.

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However, if you do want some sort of interactivity based for your own personal projects using Django,

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you can actually use art this court channel for that.

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It's a great place to share your questions on your personal projects.

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You can use the link in the very first lecture of the course, which is the welcome message to join

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our Discord server.

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And this automated welcome message also includes a link to a YouTube video describing how to use and

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log into the server.

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And you can also check your automated messages on Udemy to find that welcome message.

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So if you go to either the first lecture and the entire course, it's a text lecture.

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We have the link in that if a queue or you can check out your automated welcome message in order to

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join the discord, you will need to make an account with this court.

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It's totally free, and then you'll just join our server.

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Remember the purpose of this, this court channel is to connect with other students and be able to have

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a conversation there about your own personal projects or homework questions, that sort of thing.

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Technical questions related to, of course, material are still probably best suited for the Q&A forums.

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Now, resource links to the files can be found in the FGCU lecture, that's actually the previous lecture.

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We provide all the files use inside of a zip file, and that resource folder is going to be a little

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blue icon, sometimes inside the actual lecture title you can see on the right hand side.

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We're also going to discuss this more in the actual set up detail and installation lecture.

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So really, just hold on on downloading anything until you actually get to the Visual Studio code installation

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and set up lecture that will have the resource in order to download the zip file.

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Then you just unzip it and you have all the notes.

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And with that, I want to give a huge thank you for enrolling in this course.

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I can't wait to get started in teaching you everything you need to know to become a full stack Django

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web developer.

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I'll see you later.