Javascript for Beginners

Learn Javascript - the most important programming language used on the web.

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by Mark Lassoff

"As a business guy I have no place in programming." Ten years ago, you would have gotten away with that easily. Today, you say that to your friends and they scoff at you quickly before they go back to their computers to fix actual problems and do real work.

So how do you get started? If you want to do something useful, learn JavaScript. In these days when the browser is becoming more and more central to all computer use, knowing "the language of the browser" is the most important step!

Now, a few years ago, you'd be marked out as a weirdo for saying something like that. There'd probably be some kind of witch-burning ceremony or something, because JavaScript was this stupid language which had stupid syntax and stupid scope and was used to do stupid things by stupid people and just led to awful spaghetti code and killed kittens.

These days competent programmers have started to identify its real potential and uses, and it's gone from an incompetent toy to the main language of the browser. It's become cool and basically every developer needs at least a beginners understanding of Javascript. And I don't mean cool as in "look at this cool bouncing text"; I mean cool as in "hey, check out that cool guy over there writing JavaScript, look how cool he is!".

So... what's it gonna be? Are you gonna hop on the cool bandwagon and start programming using useful languages with "Javascript for Beginners", or are you going to wait a couple of years until everything you've learned is completely obsolete?

Note: Some basic knowledge of HTML is required for this course. Don't have any? Checkout my primer course HTML for Beginners (now with >1,500 students enrolled)!

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Some basic knowledge of HTML is required for this course.

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Who Should Attend?

Over 59 lectures and 3 hrs of content!
Extensive, informative and interesting video lecture
Complete Code demonstrated in lecture
Lab Exercises
Lab Solution Sets
All Powerpoint Demonstrations Used in Course
Instructor contact Email for questions and clarifications
Coverage of all important primary Javascript concepts

Web Designers looking to improve their skill set
Programmers who need to learn Javascript for their web applications
People looking to start programming and need a first programming language to learn
Students who want to learn Javascript
People who manage a web site as a volunteer or as a hobby
Bloggers-- even if you use Wordpress or another CMS!
Anyone else who wants to learn Javascript

Instructors

Mark Lassoff

Corporate Technical Trainer

LearnToProgram.tv is a leading corporate technical training firm. LearnToProgram.tv provides training for software, web and mobile developers world wide. Our courses have taken place at Fortune 500 companies, training centers and Federal Government organizations. Now on Udemy, you can experience the same great instruction that you get in one of our classroom sessions-- at a small fraction of the price.

About Mark-- The Guy Behind LearnToProgram.tv

Mark Lassoff’s parents frequently claim that he was born to be a programmer. In the mid-eighties, when the neighborhood kids were outside playing kickball and throwing snowballs, Mark was hard at work on his Commodore 64 writing games in the BASIC programming language. Computers and programming continued to be a strong interest in college where Mark majored in Communications and Computer Science. After completing his college career, Mark worked in the software and web development departments at several large corporations.

In 2001, on a whim, while his contemporaries were conquering the dot com world, Mark accepted a position training programmers in a technical training center in Austin, Texas. It was there that Mark fell in love with teaching programming, which has been his passion ever since. Today Mark is a top technical trainer, traveling the country providing training for software and web developers. Mark's training clients include the Department of Defense, Lockheed Martin, Discover Card Services, and Kaiser Permanente. He has consulted for companies such as Dell, Target, Lockheed Martin, and government agencies including the US House of Representatives. In addition to traditional classroom training and consulting, Mark releases video tutorial training for aspiring programmers on his website, www.LearnToProgram.tv and Udemy.com.

He lives near Hartford, Connecticut where he is in the process of redecorating his condominium.

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by Carson Mehl, 9 months ago

So far soooo good.

I purchased this course one day ago and I am only on chapter 4, but I am really enjoying it. I have a little bit of HTML and PHP knowledge, but am a total newbie to Javascript. The videos are clear and the exercises are interesting. I will update this as I progress. UPDATE...THROUGH CHAPTER 8 I just finished chapter 8 of 10 and I have really learned a lot by taking this course. I think I am hooked on Udemy and Mark's classes. Everything I knew about programming was by playing around with PHP in WordPress and asking questions on Stackoverflow & Stackexchange. Even though this class is an introduction to Javascript it has given me a much better understanding programming in general which has helped me understand the way PHP works in WordPress. I have already started putting this to use in my business Getridofit.com and I can't wait to learn more. I will do a final update when I finish the course.
by Safak Ozkan, 9 months ago

waste of time.. Try YouTube tutorials and other web sites instead.

Very Elementary concepts.. I can find the info presented in these courses at tons of different websites for free. JS is a very powerful and complicated language. This course doesn't present a good overview of what JS is capable of doing, what it's strong parts are and it's weak parts are. Instead it goes go on and on about how to do "if - statements", "while - loops" and whatnot. All and all it was a total of time and $ for me. I'd advise inquisitive people who wanna learn code to go to youtube and search for some tutorials there if you're a beginner. Or some Google Talks if you wanna learn about the advanced aspects of JS.
by Brecht Palombo, 9 months ago

Solid

This was a solid introduction to JavaScript. I've tried to learn from just text (ie., w3Schools etc) in the past but it just didn't take. A previous reviewer mentioned YouTube or whatever but the fact is that there is a major diference between videos that just anybody who knows javascript is putting out and videos that are assembled by a profesional trainer that are supplemented with thoughtful labs and exercise. If you know HTML and you want to learn JavaScript and if video is the right delivery method for you (it is for me) then this is the right course.

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