How to proceed

Each lesson in the tutorial is designed to let you proceed at your own pace. At any time, you can stop and later return to that place in a lesson so that you can complete all the sections in the lesson.

Each lesson guides you through a scenario to enhance the Compass Travel Trip Maintenance application. Sections within a lesson present basic programming concepts that you need to understand before completing the section exercises.

Depending on your programming experience, you can read the entire lesson and then proceed to the hands-on exercises, or you can skip some information in the lesson and proceed directly to the exercises. For each exercise, there is a completed version of each file created or modified in that lesson. The completed solution files are in the directory cf_root/cfdocs/getting_started/solutions. Appended to each filename is the lesson and exercise number. For example, the version of the file tripdetail.cfm that you would have after performing the steps in Lesson 5, Exercise 4 is named tripdetail_lesson5_ex4.cfm. To use the solution file and continue with Lesson 5, Exercise 5, copy the tripdetail_lesson5_ex4.cfm file to the cf_root/cfdocs/my_app directory, and overwrite the tripdetail.cfm file if it already exists in the my_app directory.