Learn JavaScript with Koans - Beginner Friendly Programming

Name: Learn JavaScript with Koans - Beginner Friendly Programming
Rating: 4.9 (6 reviews)

A koan is a question used in Zen practice to provoke and test a students progress in JavaScript programming.

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47 students

Created by Ian Robinson

Last updated 3/2022

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What you'll learn

JavaScript Arrays
JavaScript Functions
JavaScript Objects
Mutability in JavaScript
Higher Order Functions in JavaScript
Test Driven Development (About Expects)
How JavaScript uses Inheritance

Requirements

There are no prerequisites for this class.
All you need to run this program is a text editor and a web browser (Chrome, Safari, Brave, IE, etc)

Description

Learning JavaScript is fun when you approach it the way that the Buddhists approach Zen.

In this course you will be working to achieve JavaScript enlightenment as you move through a collection of Koans.

A kōan (公案) (/ˈkoʊæn, -ɑːn/;[1] Chinese: 公案; pinyin: gōng'àn, [kʊ́ŋ ân]; Korean: 화두, hwadu; Vietnamese: công án) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement which is used in Zen practice to provoke the "great doubt" and to practice or test a student's progress in Zen.

This course covers a handful of important JavaScript Concepts:

Expects
Arrays
Functions
Objects
Mutability
Higher Order Functions
Inheritance

Test Driven Development (TDD)

In this lesson, we practice Test Driven Development. You start by running a test suite which is full of errors. As you move your way towards enlightenment, you begin by fixing the code to solve your errors.

A Tool to Prepare for Technical Interviews

The material we cover in this course can be studied offline on your own. Once you download the Koan folder, you can duplicate it and run it again and again. If you're ever preparing for a challenging technical interview, JavaScript Koans are a great tool. Just before your technical interview, you can run through the Koans to have fun while remembering some of the more esoteric aspects of JavaScript.

Who this course is for:

Beginner to intermediate JavaScript programmers.
Programmers seeking a fun practice to improve their JavaScript skills.

Ian Robinson

Small Business Owner, Podcast Producer & Software Developer

4.4 Instructor Rating
655 Reviews
7,698 Students
4 Courses

In 2010 I started a company called the Freedom Podcasting Company. At Freedom Podcasting, we work with clients to help them produce and publish podcasts. Our clients do the recording, we do everything else to make their show's look professional. We have produced thousands of podcast episodes for many well known and niche clients. To get an idea for our work, please explore the Freedom Podcasting website.

As a software engineer, Ian works has worked with teams to develop educational platforms, marketplace application and large multi-national clinical trial applications. I'm a big fan of Ruby on Rails, React, Vue & NodeJS. I'm slowly beginning to understand and enjoy type safe languages like Go and TypeScript.