Learn Modern JavaScript: Getting Started
What you'll learn
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of JavaScript.
- Write JavaScript code and link it to a web page.
- Test JavaScript code using the browser console.
- Declare variables and manipulate values.
- Work with operators.
- Explain coercion and hoisting.
- Use the Date and Math object.
- Use template strings for displaying output.
- Incorporate if conditionals in your code.
- Use a switch statement when appropriate.
- Understand and apply the while and for loop.
- Create an array.
- Add and remove elements from an array.
- Use array methods.
- Create user defined functions.
- Create arrow functions.
- Explain scope.
- Create user defined objects.
- Explain prototypal inheritance.
- Use the constructor and class structure to create objects.
- Explain the DOM.
- Select and modify elements from the DOM.
- Create event handles to respond to user actions.
- Debug your code.
- Optimally deploy your JavaScript code.
Requirements
- Prior to taking this course, it is best, but not required, to have some familiarity to HTML and CSS.
- As for tools, you will need a browser and a text editor.
Description
In Learn Modern JavaScript: Getting Started, you are taught the fundamentals of JavaScript the right way. We won't skip topics. Some topics may seem more advanced, but that is because they are crucial to a complete grounding of JavaScript. Most importantly, you are taught the why, not just the what and how.
We cover all the necessary topics to get you started on your way to becoming a JavaScript programmer. This course will start with the basics and very quickly begins increasing your knowledge of JavaScript. With all the hands-on exercise, you will get plenty of time to practice.
JavaScript has changed and matured since its humble beginnings in 1995. One of the original goals of JavaScript, in those early years, was to make it easy for beginners. That goal has made it accessible for all types of people. However, this has also meant that JavaScript has been taught and learned incompletely by many. Not in this course!
This course contains 12 sections, over 115 different topics, over 13 hours of video tutorials, 12 exercises and everything you need for the proper grounding in JavaScript.
If you are ready to jump into the world of JavaScript or you want to add to your new found skills, this course is for you!
Who this course is for:
- This course is intended for those who are getting started with JavaScript or who would like a refresher that includes the latest JavaScript.
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I have had 25+ years experience in training and product development and 20+ years working with JavaScript. I started learning JavaScript when it was a new language used for minor affects on a web site. The growth and ubiquitous nature of JavaScript both excites and inspires me.
I currently work as the President and Lead Trainer at All Things JavaScript, a resource for anyone and everyone that hopes to increase their JavaScript skills and move from novice to expert.
I'm doing what I love most: Teaching about technical subjects. It is so important to understand the why, not just the what and how, when it comes to technical subjects. My goal is to help thousands of JavaScript developers to get started and become experts in the field making a great living coding.
I was the co-owner and President of Rapid Intake, an eLearning firm. The company was an ideal place for me to apply my training and development skills. While there I managed all development and professional service related activities. I was heavily involved in the initial development of Rapid Intake's main product, an eLearning authoring tool, which eventually lead to Rapid Intake's acquisition in 2011 by Callidus Software.
In addition to JavaScript technologies, I have dabbled in other web technologies such as ActionScript, ASP, PHP, HTML, and CSS.