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Beginner JavaScript

by Wes Bos

A video course that teaches JavaScript from first principles without a framework, working directly with the language and the browser. It covers the parts beginners usually skip — scope and closures, prototypes and `this`, flow control and data types — alongside DOM work, events, fetching data and ES modules, with three separate rounds of practice exercises between the teaching modules. Sold as two packages, where the smaller one contains the first six modules only.

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Course details

Provider
Wes Bos
Price
$69.50
Level
Beginner
Format
Self-paced
Language
English
Access
One-time purchase with permanent access and free updates; the Master Package adds DRM-free downloads
Support
Slack community, included with both packages

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What the course covers

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  1. The basics

    Variables, types and the language fundamentals the rest of the course assumes.

  2. Functions

    Declaring, calling and passing functions, including the several forms JavaScript offers.

  3. The tricky bits

    Scope, hoisting, closures and the behaviours that most often confuse people coming to the language.

  4. The DOM: working with HTML and CSS

    Selecting, creating and changing elements from JavaScript rather than through a framework.

  5. Events

    Listening for and responding to user interaction, including how events propagate.

  6. Logic, flow control and data types

    Conditionals, loops, and how JavaScript's data types behave, across several modules.

  7. Prototypes, `this`, `new` and inheritance

    How JavaScript's object model actually works, rather than treating classes as the whole story.

  8. Advanced flow control and fetching data

    Promises, async/await and Ajax requests, covering how asynchronous code is sequenced.

  9. ES modules and structuring larger apps

    Splitting code across files and organising a codebase beyond a single script.

  10. Practice exercise rounds

    Three separate exercise modules placed between the teaching content rather than collected at the end.

Who this course is for

People who have seen some HTML and CSS and want to learn JavaScript itself before picking up a framework.

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Who created this course

Wes Bos

Taught by Wes Bos

An independent developer who sells self-paced web development video courses directly.

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