JavaScript for Beginners - Learn with 6 main projects! (Udemy.com)
Learn modern JavaScript from scratch.
Created by: Kalob Taulien
Last updated November 2019
What you will learn
- How to read, write and understand JavaScript
- How to confidently work in JavaScript
- How to use conditional statements in JavaScript
- How to write loops in JavaScript
- Have a strong understanding of JavaScript fundamentals
- Learn core programming fundamentals that can be used in other coding languages
- How to write functions in JavaScript
- How to write object oriented code (OOP) in JavaScript
- How the strange quirks like hoisting and closures work in JavaScript
- How to write and understand data types and data structures in JavaScript
- How to make web pages completely dynamic using JavaScript
- How to write JavaScript events and event listeners
Quality Score
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Overall Score : 88 / 100
Course Description
Hello fellow developer!
Welcome to JavaScript for Beginners! Here's a little information about me, what's in this course, what you'll learn in this course, and some social proof from the other courses I've taught on Udemy.
I've been teaching JavaScript for over 8 years, and I've been using JavaScript since the late '90s. I've helped over 45,000 students learn this fun and fantastic programming language, JavaScript!
Are you looking for a thorough course to learn JavaScript?
Welp.. that's this course!
Over 8 hours of video
Over 55 lessons
5 mini projects
3 mid-sized projects
1 final project
Is this course for you?
If you're new to JavaScript this is the perfect course for you!
If you have some prior JavaScript experience, this course is still for you due to how thorough it is.
Plus the projects that come with this course are very practical and really help you use what you've learned.
Here's what you'll be learning in this course
In this JavaScript for Beginners course you will learn everything you need to become a confident JavaScript developer. Some courses only teach you the programming side of JavaScript, and other courses only show you the interactive side of JavaScript. But the truth is: JavaScript is an interactive programming language and you need to know both sides of JavaScript.
JavaScript fundamentals - You'll learn how to write JavaScript, where it's applied, and how to execute it. We'll be looking at JavaScript syntax (the funny looking curly brackets). We'll also look at ways to easily debug your JavaScript code so you aren't wasting your valuable time staring at broken code.
Variables - A variable is a tiny piece of memory that's allocated in your computer. It's used for storing a tiny piece of data, like your name, a number, or several lines of code it should execute.
Web page interactivity - The #1 reason why JavaScript is so popular is because of its ability to interact with a web page. You'll learn how to accept user input, change what your page looks like, and take an action based on the users action. This is what make websites truly interactive.
Data types & data structures - Unlike other courses, in this JavaScript for Beginners course you'll learn the different data types and how to use them. You'll learn about numbers, strings, floats, functions, objects, undefined, null and more... and why they are important to know.
Conditional statements - These are the little checkpoints in a program that make a computer actually do something. For example, if you're 18 or older you're allowed to vote. This is a real life "conditional statement". It reads like this: if age > 18: do something. This is exactly how computers know what to do and you'll learn how to write these.
Functions - When you write enough code you'll eventually end up copying and pasting the exact same code over and over again. A function lets you write a piece of code one time and use it over and over. You'll learn about regular functions, immediately invoked functioned, anonymous functions and arrow functions!
Loops - One of the most powerful concepts in computer science is the idea of a "loop". Basically it lets you do one action over and over again until it's told to stop. You'll learn about for loop, foreach loops and while loops!
JavaScript quirks - JavaScript has some strange functionality that other programming languages don't have. We'll cover several "quirks" together in this course and you'll learn about things like hoisting, closures, promises, and block scoping.
Objects, Classes and OOP - In JavaScript there's a special data type called an object. It lets you store named data points for easy access along with functions. In modern JavaScript we can write a class, much like other languages such as Python. Classes are a nicer way to write JavaScript objects. You can extend them, over write pieces of them, and re-use entire chunks of code — they're like functions but much bigger. And you'll learn all about these!
API's and Ajax requests - API's are inevitable in web development. It's important to know how they theoretically work, and how to work with them. You'll get hands on experience with a real life API and an Ajax request.
Are you ready to start writing JavaScript?
If not.. consider this: I have two other JavaScript courses with over 45,000 students and over 2,000 reviews! Here are a few real reviews from my other JavaScript courses:
— I've been trying to lean Javascript for a few months now. This course is helping everything fall into place.
— I really like and appreciate this tutor for his way of explaining. Fantastic!
— Not completed the course just yet, but from the lessons so far I have found Kalob's explanations to be clear and succinct. He explains exactly what he is doing and why. The pace is spot on and I never felt the explanations were verbose. I've never had the most confidence with Js so I decided to buy this course. I feel the lessons are helping and I am slowly gaining in confidence by the day. Great for beginners.
— Its amazing, the explanation is so simple, I wish I had gone through this course earlier.
— Yes, so far its been very easy and has a great start.
— IT'S A GREAT JS BEGINNER COURSE
I've been teaching JavaScript for several years, helped thousands of people learn to read, write and understand JavaScript — and I've put 3x more effort into developing this course than all my previous JavaScript courses. I promise you will enjoy it!
See you inside! :)
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
476 Reviews
Kalob Taulien
He is a professional web developer who's been developing websites and working with startups since 1999. He also has a broad set of skills in software, web development, and information technology.
Teaching over 450,000 students on Udemy alone, he's helped hundreds of thousands of people learn web development. From zero to hero and novice to ninja, he's considered a top teacher by thousands. With so much experience, why not give his experience and knowledge to others so they can fulfill their dreams?
The passion to learn and to share his knowledge by teaching and helping others is something that drives him. It's a passion he's had since he was born. Kalob's ability to turn complex programming concepts into easy-to-understands bits of knowledge has been called his "superpower".
Throughout the years, Kalob has built hundreds, if not thousands, of websites, and has created multiple companies from his ideas and software. He also provides one-on-one coaching and startup consulting to new organizations.
Teaching isn't an option in Kalob's life, but a moral obligation to pass on knowledge to others.
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Reviews
By Darko Pusonja on 3/17/2026
Great beginner-friendly JavaScript course! Kalob Taulien explains everything clearly and in a simple way. The 6 projects made the course practical, interesting, and very useful for learning by doing. 5 stars!
By Ganesh Patel on 9/7/2020
nice course kalob ..Looking forward for advanced course from you
By Hadi Ibrahim on 6/6/2020
The course was interactive and very informative. Definitely would recommend to everyone with prior HTML and CSS knowledge, and other programming languages too, since Kalob mentions and compares some of the key differences between JS and the others like Python for example.
By Timothy Outcalt on 4/6/2020
This course was a great match for me. The speed of content was great. Kalob kept it interesting and gave a lot of real world examples to really drive home the topics we were learning about. His teaching style was fun and kept it interesting. Great course!!
By Anna Jacknitsky on 1/2/2020
Once again, Kalob did NOT disappoint! Great course, I needed a little refresher, this was awesome. He does such a great job explaining each subject, and it makes it fun and easy to learn. I would recommend his courses to anyone, from beginners to pro!
By Joseph Livengood on 12/31/2019
Love the way Kalob teaches, he has a very good since of humor and made me laugh several times. Gave me so much knowledge on javascript that I wasn't getting from the other courses I had purchased and still have yet to complete. I can now finish those with a better understanding as to what is going on. Thank you, it was a blessing!
By Jung Lee on 12/26/2019
what a brilliant course! Thanks Kalob - you have explained in a way where we can easily understand and how to apply in different scenarios. I've been a junior developer for a year and this helped me a lot to clear things. Cheers
By Danilo Petrovic on 12/3/2019
I dont like the childish way of talking, and u talk too complicated for a begginer.... Also you choose bad variable names...
By Jovana Matic on 11/28/2019
The course is excellent. Really easy to follow and unlike other courses it gradually improves and upgrades your knowledge. Also the mini projects are cleverly designed so that you can use all the things that you learned so far in the course and tackle the problems. I am really enjoying the course so far and can't wait for the rest of the lessons.
By Francis Seneve on 11/23/2019
Before covering fetch api as far as I'm concerced, it's better to teach how to use promises for student to understand what is going on! Over all it's great course for beginners who want to learn javascript. Thanks!










