JavaScript Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners 2018

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.