microsoft / imagine_solar-system-viewer

Get the assets and code here, and then follow our Solar System Viewer tutorial to learn more about how to work with WebGL, three.js, JavaScript, and Visual Studio to create your simulation! Microsoft Imagine connects you with the tools and knowledge you need to create, code, and develop your ideas. http://imagine.microsoft.com

Welcome to Microsoft Imagine's Solar System Viewer Activity

Hello from the Microsoft Imagine team! Thanks for checking out our Solar System Viewer. Learn how to use three.js/WebGL to display a 3D simulation of our planets in your web browser!

Microsoft Imagine?

Microsoft Imagine gives you the tools you need to experiment, explore, and launch your ideas. Learn the basics of coding and you can create anything you dream. See where you can take code, and where coding can take you.

What is this?

This repository holds the assets, HTML, and JavaScript source code for this Solar System Viewer activity.

If you're new to HTML, JavaScript, or just need some guidance overall, head to the Solar System Viewer activity page on the Microsoft Imagine site and follow our steps in the embedded Office Mix to complete the code for your own version of the activity.

Otherwise, feel free to use our Solar System Viewer code and assets to start a new solar system, and develop the skills to turn your own ideas into something real.

How do I start?

To get started with the Solar System Viewer, you'll want to install the following:

• GitHub Desktop
• Visual Studio Community 2015

The Solar System Viewer's Office Mix has installation instructions if you need them.

How do I use GitHub Desktop to get this?

Never done this before and just want the files to work with on your own?

Click on the Clone or download button and you can make a copy of all of these files on your machine that you can work with. Use Open in Desktop to open the repo in GitHub Desktop. Alternatively, Download ZIP and then unzip the files in a familiar location on your computer.

Remember where you save these files, so you can find them again in Visual Studio!

Other pages of interest:

• Microsoft Imagine website: Discover more software tools, contests, and other kits!
• Imagine Learn-to-Code kits and activities: Offering a wide variety of coding kits to learn from and modify!
• Imagine Cup website: Offering opportunities for students worldwide to create life-changing solutions.
• Microsoft Virtual Academy: Motivated to learn even more? Explore free, online training here!

How do I help?

Read up further on contributing here.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.

LICENSE

Solar System Viewer

Copyright (c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation

All rights reserved.

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.