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+# Exercise 1: 
+
+## Due Date: Friday, June 3, 2022 11:30 AM
+## Objectives: To gain practice with our git workflow for distributiing course materials and submitting projects as well as write our first javascript code in the browser.
+
+## Specifications/Requirements
+1. Everything you need to do is inside the `script tag` inside the `index.html` starter file we have provided you with.
+2.  You need to define to variables: firstName and lastName. You can initialize them to whatever values you choose.
+3. You need to define a function named MyConcatenate that takes 2 parameters, first and last. It will return a string that will be equal to this: "Hello. My name is <first> <last>. 
+4. You will invoke this function with the values you defined for requirement 2 and print out the result to the console.
+5. You will need to commit your changes and push them to your repository on the University Gitlab server.
+__NOTE__ You may not declare your variables with the `var` keyword. You must also use the template literal syntax I covered in lecture. You may not concatenate strings.
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+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+<body>
+
+
+
+<script>
+
+</script> 
+
+</body>
+</html>
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