JavaScript Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners 2018 (video tutorial)
If you don’t have any coding experience but want to learn the world’s most popular programming language, we’ve got the perfect course for you! Microsoft MVP Bob Tabor, founder of Developer University, walks you through the “what,” “how,” and “why" of JavaScript.
Begin with the very basics of the JavaScript language, and learn everything you need to know to get started. Watch lots of helpful demos, as Bob explores the fundamentals—from getting the tools, setting up the development environment, and exploring expressions, operators, and arrays, to options, classes, functions, and actually writing code. Each concept in this course is broken into its own video so you can search for and focus on the information you need. And Bob offers lots of encouragement and tips along the way.
01 | Introduction Get an introduction from Bob, as he kicks off the course, sets expectations, and gives you a little guidance for the road ahead.
02 | Setting Up the Development Environment See how to install Node and Visual Studio Code, and learn why you need each. Watch as Bob writes a first tiny line of code to make sure that the installation is ready.
03 | Basic JavaScript Syntax Hear about the basics of the JavaScript syntax, including how JavaScript is executed, how to create a properly formed statement, and more.
04 | Variables Learn what variables are and how to declare, initialize, set, and get values from them.
05 | Data Types JavaScript works with data types differently than other programming languages do. Learn from Bob as he explains some of the most basic data types and how to determine the type held by a variable.
06 | Type Coercion and Conversion Sometimes you need to explicitly convert the data type of a value into a different data type. Sometimes JavaScript will do this automatically for you. Bob explains how and why this happens.
07 | Expressions and Operators Learn how to spot a well-formed expression and how to compose expressions through the combination of operators and operands.
08 | Arrays Watch as Bob demonstrates how to use arrays, how to add/remove elements of an array, how to access elements of an array using the index, how to get the number of elements in an array, and more.
09 | Function Declaration Get an introduction to functions, as Bob shows you one way to define a function, how to call the function, how to pass parameters into a function, how to return values from a function, and more.
10 | Function Expressions Sometimes a function declaration is more than you need. Get details in this lesson, as Bob demonstrates how to use a function expression and how to create an immediately invoked function expression.
11 | Decision Statements Learn how to add logic to your applications by testing conditions using if / else statements, switch / case statements, and the ternary operator.
12 | Iteration Statements Watch as Bob introduces the For and While statements, which enable you to loop through lists of values and perform operations on them.
13 | Basics of Scope Hear an explanation of the notion of the lifetime of variables and their reach into other code blocks, in this discussion of scope.
14 | Returning Functions from Functions As a building block toward a more sophisticated approach to building JavaScript applications, see how you can return functions from functions.
15 | Object Literals Objects contain properties and functions that describe attributes of the object and its behavior, respectively. Watch as Bob demonstrates how to create object literals.
16 | Module Pattern and Revealing Module Pattern Learn how to introduce variables and functions without leaving an unnecessarily large footprint on the global scope.
17 | Closures Closures allow developers to bind functions to their execution context, including variables, so you can build specialized versions of functions. Learn how closures work and how to create them.
18 | this Keyword Get the details on the "this" keyword, which causes a lot of confusion for JavaScript developers. Listen as Bob explains what this mysterious object is and how to bend it to your will.