JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts (Udemy.com)

This is an intermediate JavaScript course that covers the nuances of the language. Provides a comprehensive look 'under the hood', explaining why things work the way they do. Teaches advanced concepts like closures and prototypical inheritance.

Created by: Anthony Alicea

Produced in 2015

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Course Description

DescriptionJavascript is the language that modern developers need to know, and know well. Truly knowing Javascript will get you a job, and enable you to build quality web and server applications.NOTE: This course includes information on ECMAScript 6 (ES6) the next version of Javascript!In this course you will gain a deep understanding of Javascript, learn how Javascript works under the hood, and how that knowledge helps you avoid common pitfalls and drastically improve your ability to debug problems. You will find clarity in the parts that others, even experienced coders, may find weird, odd, and at times incomprehensible. You'll learn the beauty and deceptive power of this language that is at the forefront of modern software development today.This course will cover such advanced concepts as objects and object literals, function expressions, prototypical inheritance, functional programming, scope chains, function constructors (plus new ES6 features), immediately invoked function expressions (IIFEs), call, apply, bind, and more.We'll take a deep dive into the source code of popular frameworks such as jQuery and Underscore to see how you can use your understanding of Javascript to learn (and borrow) from other's good code.Finally, you'll learn the foundations of how to build your own Javascript framework or library.What you'll learn in this course will make you a better Javascript developer, and improve your abilities in AngularJS, NodeJS, jQuery, React, Ember, MongoDB, and all other Javascript-based technologies!Learn to love Javascript, and code in it well.Note: In this course you'll also get downloadable source code. You will often be provided with 'starter' code, giving you the base for you to start writing your code, and 'finished' code to compare your code to.Who this course is for:Those with basic Javascript skills who wish to improveExperienced coders coming from other programming languagesNew and experienced Javascript coders who want to deepen their understanding of the languageAnyone who has found concepts just as object prototypes, closures, and other advanced concepts difficult to learnThose who have suffered surprising errors while writing Javascript, and want to learn why and how to avoid themThose interested in building their own frameworks, or being better able to learn from the source code of other well-known frameworks and libraries

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Instructor Details

Anthony Alicea

Newly married in Cleveland Ohio, Tony is primarily focused these days on trying to be a good husband. While inexperienced at that, he's quite experienced in all things web. Tony has been programming since he was 12 years old, and got into web sites and web application development at 16. After graduating with a Computer Science degree from Case Western Reserve University, Tony continued with that interest as a Microsoft certified software application developer and architect, database designer, and user interface designer. His experience has ranged across technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, ASP .NET MVC, JavaScript, jQuery, KnockoutJS, AngularJS, NodeJS, LESS, Bootstrap, SQL, Entity Framework and more. He believes strongly that deeply understanding any topic allows you to properly learn it and, even more importantly in a real-world environment, quickly overcome problems. He also has a deep interest in human nature and behavior, and how that impacts human-computer interaction. This interest translated into extending his career into user experience design and usability research. Another link in the chain is his 25 years of experience in public speaking and teaching, both in front of large groups and as a one-on-one private instructor. Putting all these pieces together, he has spent his career listening to a client need, designing a database and software to meet that need, building it, testing it, teaching others how to use it, then improving user experience by watching people actua

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By Nicholas C on a month ago

Thanks Tony this course was very helpful. The contents were very elaborate and well planned. This certainly bettered my understanding of JavaScript. Thanks again.

By Kim Mosher on a month ago

I have learnt those topics of javascript which i haven't thought of. Value for money

By Chris Underwood on 23 days ago

I am an experienced back-end developer that has worked with C# and VB.Net for most of my life. I am hoping to transition to JavaScript for a more full-stack web development role and so I picked up this class. The instructor very clearly explains many of the more interesting parts of JavaScript that really set it apart as a language. I highly recommend this class to anyone interested in really learning how the language works.

By Danny C on a month ago

Heel begrijpelijk uitgelegd, maakt nieuwsgierig naar de andere lessen

By Izevbigie Nosakhare on 4 months ago

The way he explains javascript is really different from the other authors/books. Instead of memorising stuff, he is focused on understanding.

By Iw Duarte on 9 months ago

Everything is good in your tutorial..expect functional programming...bit confusing can u release a one more video with neat real time examples...THANKS A LOT FOR UR TUTORIALS

By Kiril Christov on 3 months ago

Excelente curso para tener claros absolutamente todos los conceptos bsicos y avanzados de JavaScript. Entenders a la perfeccin qu ocurre internamente con cada sentencia de tu cdigo, lo que te permitir escribir y analizarlo con ms criterio y localizar posibles errores con mayor facilidad. Adems terminas el curso creando una librerAa sencilla pero suficientemente elaborada como para reforzar todos los conocimientos y saber crear tus propias librerAas.

By Tim Pozza on a month ago

Yes, 100%. This is exactly the time of semi-advanced course I'm looking for to dig my nails into js from the the backend and to understand how it operates.

By Ganesamoorthy on a month ago

The way the he explain the code and whats happen under the hood is amazing. Everything start making sense after this course. Well done

By Katleen ludger on a month ago

This is a fantastic course I am a college student who has used plenty of other languages in a superficial way but never have really learned the deep ins and outs of one specific language. This course helped me learn how to stop writing JavaScript like a python or java programmer. I highly recommend this to any programmer who has a working proficiency with javascript but wouldn't feel comfortable calling themselves a JS developer.

By Michael Ford on 3 months ago

great course, I felt it was a bit elaborate and over-explained towards the beginning, but be patient with this course, it really does get weird and opens your mind to the quirky parts of javascript, I like that it also gave me the confidence to look at library, framework, javascript code done by experts and not be intimidated by the syntactical and logical constructs used thanks anthony

By Darwing Hernandez on 9 days ago

Anthony is superb. I love his teaching style and his knowledge is excellent. Just one note, as we got toward the end of the course, it got a little slow. Other than that...great course.