Training Module 2: Learn Microsoft Power Platform

Power Apps, From the Inside: Your Free Studio, Your First App

Your Power Platform Trainer: J. H. Irwin
Author | Content Creator | Technology Strategist

At the end of Module 1, I asked you to bring your curiosity and that spreadsheet quietly holding your department together

I hope you brought both, because this is the module where we stop touring the workshop and start building in it. By the time you finish, you will have a free development environment of your own, a working understanding of how Power Apps thinks, and a real application running on your phone that you built yourself. Not a demo you watched. Yours.

If you missed Module 1, it maps the whole Power Platform in plain English, and it is worth ten minutes before you continue. The short version: Power Apps is Microsoft’s tool for building business applications without traditional code, and it sits on a shared foundation called Dataverse alongside its siblings for automation, analytics, websites, and AI agents. Today we go deep on this one tool, because everything else in this series builds on it.