JavaScript: Understanding The Weird Parts

Who this course is for:

• Those with basic Javascript skills who wish to improve
• Experienced coders coming from other programming languages
• New and experienced Javascript coders who want to deepen their understanding of the language
• Anyone who has found concepts just as object prototypes, closures, and other advanced concepts difficult to learn
• Those who have suffered surprising errors while writing Javascript, and want to learn why and how to avoid them
• Those interested in building their own frameworks, or being better able to learn from the source code of other well-known frameworks and libraries

Course Content:

• Getting Started –> 6 lectures • 15min.
• Execution Contexts and Lexical Environments –> 13 lectures • 1hr 34min.
• Types and Operators –> 11 lectures • 1hr 18min.
• Objects and Functions –> 23 lectures • 4hr 28min.
• Object-Oriented Javascript and Prototypal Inheritance –> 4 lectures • 40min.
• Building Objects –> 8 lectures • 1hr 7min.
• Odds and Ends –> 4 lectures • 19min.
• Examining Famous Frameworks and Libraries –> 4 lectures • 52min.
• Let’s Build a Framework / Library! –> 8 lectures • 49min.
• EXTRA: TypeScript, ES6, and Transpiled Languages –> 2 lectures • 5min.
• EXTRA: Getting Ready for ECMAScript 6 –> 2 lectures • 1min.
• EXTRA: ES6 In-Depth –> 2 lectures • 43min.
• Conclusion –> 2 lectures • 2min.

What you’ll learn:

• Grasp how Javascript works and it’s fundamental concepts.
• Write solid, good Javascript code.
• Understand advanced concepts such as closures, prototypal inheritance, IIFEs, and much more..
• Drastically improve your ability to debug problems in Javascript..
• Avoid common pitfalls and mistakes other Javascript coders make.
• Understand the source code of popular Javascript frameworks.
• Build your own Javascript framework or library.

Requirements

• Basic Javascript knowledge (variables, loops, and basic functions - that's all the course expects you to know!)
• A browser and text editor