A Gentle Introduction To JavaScript For Absolute Beginners

Learn Vanilla JavaScript Without Frameworks...A First Step

Created by: Charlie Chiarelli
Experienced Online Educator

What Will I Learn?

• The basic building blocks of Javascript as well as some helpful tips on computer programming in general
• How to add a script to a Web page, store and manipulate information and add smarts to a program so it can respond to different situations.
• Create real world examples of JavaScript in action including making your own web form more usuable by adding validations
• Create rollover effects and simple animations
• Work with Selection and Repetition structures (if statements and loops)
• Work with the concept of Arrays (one and two dimensional)
• Learn to manipulate Strings
• Work with dates

Requirements

• You should have a basic understanding of how to create simple web pages using HTML
• Having some knowledge of CSS will help but it's not required
• Programming is serious business. You’re going to have to work, sometimes hard. If you’ve already had some programming experience, then you know what we’re talking about. If you’re coming straight from HTML and CSS, then you’re going to find writing code is a little, well, different. Programming requires a different way of thinking. Programming is logical, at times very abstract, and requires you to think in an algorithmic way. But no worries; we’re going to do all that in a friendly way. Just take it a bit at a time. That way, these new programming concepts will really sink in.

Target audience

• Beginner web developers/programmers who want to learn how to implement JavaScript to create interactive Web Applications
• This course can act as a stepping stone to learning more advanced JavaScript implementations that incorporate modern frameworks like React and Angular
• This course is not for experienced web developers