Missing routes.php File in New Laravel Project

I downloaded Composer, installed Laravel, and started my first Laravel project to begin learning Laravel using the lessons on laracast (great lessons). Lesson two covers routes. My new project does not have a routes.php file.
I deleted composer and started again. Same thing. Tried two different computers. Same thing. I was using NetBeans so I tried using PHP Storm. Same thing. I tried making my own routes.php file but it doesn't seem to work right because I know nothing about Laravel at this point. I tried creating and saving the project in htdocs, and then PHPStorm project folder, again - no routes.php file.
Composer is saved here- C:\Users\myName\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin. I used composer global require "laravel/installer" in command prompt to install laravel. Any ideas?
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I downloaded Composer, installed Laravel, and started my first Laravel project to begin learning Laravel using the lessons on laracast (great lessons). Lesson two covers routes. My new project does not have a routes.php file.
I deleted composer and started again. Same thing. Tried two different computers. Same thing. I was using NetBeans so I tried using PHP Storm. Same thing. I tried making my own routes.php file but it doesn't seem to work right because I know nothing about Laravel at this point. I tried creating and saving the project in htdocs, and then PHPStorm project folder, again - no routes.php file.
Composer is saved here- C:\Users\myName\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin. I used composer global require "laravel/installer" in command prompt to install laravel. Any ideas?
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If you want to install laravel you should install it by composer command like this:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel your-project-name

laravel documentation: laravel installation
and if your composer is not installed perfectly you should go to composer installation and install your composer from here.
and routes.php file is located under app\Http\routes.php.