Learn Modern JavaScript: Getting Started
Get the fundamentals of JavaScript the right way, with 12 sections, 113 different topics, over 13 hours of video tutorials, 12 exercises, and everything you need for learning JavaScript.
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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.
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.
This course contains 12 sections, 113 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 increase you new found skills, this course is for you!
- 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. You should have some familiarity of using a browser
At the conclusion of this course you will be able to:
- 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
External Resources
Learn more about the difference between var and let by watching this tutorial from my YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/9_10SWEW3-g
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For another tutorial on null and undefined, view this video from my YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/71eG2xEYO5E
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For another tutorial on coercion, you can view this video from my YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/z4-8wMSPJyI
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For additional instruction on template strings, view this video from my YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/7M0VjaBPtyE
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To view another discussion on function declarations vs. function expressions, view this video from my YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/gjLn95skIKE
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ES6 provides a way to include default values for parameters. View this YouTube tutorial to learn more.
https://youtu.be/E6_NPLkNcCM
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For another tutorial on higher order functions, view this YouTube tutorial:
https://youtu.be/O9lMynNdka4
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View this YouTube video for an additional tutorial on delete.
https://youtu.be/MBNXGBy_xjA
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Here are some additional videos on constructors from my YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/OHmx17XmeAs
https://youtu.be/w6Bw5zKcpKY
If you would like to read more about the evolution of JavaScript and the process that controls it, you can visit this great article by Axel Rauschmayer: http://2ality.com/2015/11/tc39-process.html.
Part of the discussion in the final lecture was about how to move forward now that you have finished the Getting Started course. In this bonus lecture I include some resources to help as well as a great deal on the Learn Modern JavaScript: Advanced Topics course.
Practice JavaScript
First, I mentioned it was important to work on projects. Now the best projects are those where you are required to build a full application or web site. Those can come from an employer, client, or just yourself. Those types of projects give you great experience.
In addition it can be helpful to work on JavaScript problems and challenges. These can help sharpen your skills. Here are some sites that provide opportunities to work on JavaScript problems.
- W3Resources (https://www.w3resource.com/javascript-exercises/). W3resources is a great place to start. You are simply presented with JavaScript problems, you then work on them, and then when you are ready you can display the solution. This is a great site for reviewing and practicing the concepts taught in this Getting Started course.
- LeetCode (https://leetcode.com/). Here is a description of LeetCode right from their website: "LeetCode is a platform for preparing technical coding interviews. Pick from an expanding library of more than 450questions, code and submit your solution to see if you have solved it correctly." This site includes several other languages; not just JavaScript. The site also designates the difficulty of the problem, which is nice.
- CoderByte (https://coderbyte.com). CoderByte is a great resource. They feature languages besides JavaScript. I really like their approach to the challenges. However, there are only a certain number of challenges that are free. You then must pay a monthly fee.
- HackerRank (https://www.hackerrank.com/). HackerRank provides a chance to complete more difficult JavaScript tasks This is also is a site where employers may come looking for candidates. This site is more competitive in nature, so if that is not your thing, then you may want to look elsewhere.
- CodeFights (https://codefights.com/). Like HackerRank CodeFights also takes a competitive approach to improving your coding skills. There are tournaments, head to head competitions, challenges and so forth.
Continue Learning
In addition to practicing your new found skills, you should continue learning. There are hundreds of JavaScript resources on the Internet. You simply need to do a search and you can begin finding them.
But I want to make you aware of my YouTube channel. I publish a new tutorial every week. Some of the tutorials may refresh the concepts covered in this course, or they may be completely new and more advanced. Either way I put the same type of effort into these tutorials as I do with my courses.
Here is a link to the channel so that you can subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/AllThingsJavaScriptLLC
Here is a complete list of all the tutorials that have been published so that you can pick and choose those that will be most helpful: http://www.allthingsjavascript.com/youtube.html
