Microsoft 70-480 Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Exam Passed

Yesterday I passed the Microsoft 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 exam. Microsoft are currently offering the exam for free along with an excellent set of online tutorial videos over at the Microsoft Virtual Academy.

This is part of a new set of exams working towards the MCSD: Windows Store Apps Solution Developer certification which is all about producing apps to target the new Windows 8 app store in either HTML5 or C#. Although my background is primarily C# (and had the HTML5 exam not been free I would have gone for 70-483 instead) the preparation for 480 filled in a lot of gaps in my existing jQuery and javascript knowledge.

I'm now working towards 70-513: Windows Communications Foundation Development with Microsoft .Net Framework 4 which is more relevant to my current commercial work and is step closer to the (soon to be retired!!!) MCPD:Windows Developer 4.