# Learn Material-UI

<p class="description">New to Material-UI? It's easy to learn if you know where to start! This guide will help you to get started quickly.</p>

Developers come to Material-UI from different backgrounds and with different learning styles. Whether you prefer a more theoretical or practical approach, we hope you’ll find this section helpful.
Like any unfamiliar technology, Material-UI does have a learning curve. With practice and some patience, you will soon get the hang of it.

## First Example

The [usage page](/getting-started/usage/#quick-start) contains a small Material-UI example with a live editor.
Even if you don’t know anything about Material-UI yet, try changing the code and see how it affects the result.

## Example Projects

There are [some example projects](/getting-started/example-projects/) available, providing the infrastructure needed to develop and deploy websites in React.

## Templates

This [selection of basic templates](/getting-started/templates/) will help you get started building your app.

## Recommended resources

When first learning Material-UI, you might find third-party blog posts, books and video courses more helpful than the official documentation.
Here are some recommended resources, some of which are free.

### Free

- **Introduction to Material-UI**: a series of videos covering all the important Material-UI components.
  - 📹 [The videos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHclLuRolzE&list=PLQg6GaokU5CwiVmsZ0d_9Zsg_DnIP_xwr)
- **Customize Material-UI for your project**: a look at how you can customize Material-UI to align with your company identity (design system) and products
  - 📹 [The videos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDkB3LoQKxs)
- **Meet Material-UI — your new favorite user interface library**: a blog post that guides you in building a Todo MVC while covering some important concepts of Material-UI.
  - 📝 [The blog post](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/meet-your-material-ui-your-new-favorite-user-interface-library-6349a1c88a8c)
- **Learn React & Material-UI**: a series of videos covering all the important Material-UI components.
  - 📹 [The videos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4LX5fJKZ8&list=PLcCp4mjO-z98WAu4sd0eVha1g-NMfzHZk)
- **Getting Started With Material-UI For React**: a blog post that guides you in building a simple card list.
  - 📝 [The blog post](https://medium.com/codingthesmartway-com-blog/getting-started-with-material-ui-for-react-material-design-for-react-364b2688b555)
  - 📹 [The video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWadEeOuv5o)
- **Elegant UX in React with Material-UI**: a blog post covering some important Material-UI concepts.
  - 📝 [The blog post](https://alligator.io/react/material-ui/)

### Paid

- **Implement high fidelity designs**: Bridge the gap between Design & Development. Break down detailed designs and bring them to life with Material-UI and React.

  - 💻 [The Course](https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=IVuPfk1F/Ow&mid=39197&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.udemy.com%2Fcourse%2Fimplement-high-fidelity-designs-with-material-ui-and-reactjs%2F)

- **Apply Google Material Design**: This course teaches the fundamentals of Google Material Design and how to develop an end-to-end flight search and booking application using Material-UI and React.
  - 📹 [Watch Course Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhZ6yFvCWho)
  - 💻 [The Course](https://bonsaiilabs.com/courseDetail/material-ui-with-react)

- **Cookbook**: Build modern-day applications by implementing Material Design principles in React, using Material-UI.
  - 📘 [The book](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1789615224/)

[![cookbook](/static/blog/material-ui-v4-is-out/cookbook.png)](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1789615224/)

- **Builder Book**: Learn how to build a full-stack JavaScript web application from scratch, using a Modern JavaScript stack and Material-UI.
  - 📘 [The book](https://builderbook.org/book)