jQuery Crash Course: Learn the Essentials of jQuery Fast (Udemy.com)

This is a short crash course from Simon Sez IT: 20 lectures, about 2.4 hours, split into a basics section and an advanced section, plus a quiz and two bonus lectures. It covers jQuery selectors, DOM manipulation, events, traversal and filtering, then moves on to jQuery UI widgets and a few popular plugins. The requirements list asks for basic HTML and CSS and some web experience, and reviews are split on whether true beginners can follow it. It suits designers or webmasters who want to see what jQuery does before committing to a longer course.

Students praise the teaching style. Each demo starts from a blank file and the instructor writes every line while explaining it, and one reviewer liked that he leaves in his own mistakes and explains why things broke. The complaints are consistent. Audio is the big one: several people say the volume is low and uneven, sometimes hard to hear even at max volume. Others note a steep jump from the basic section to the advanced one, no pauses or assignments to code along, and that it is simply too short to go deep. One three-star reviewer expected in-depth jQuery and found only the fundamentals.

The course lists an update in December 2025, so it is current. Next to the longer beginner-to-advanced jQuery courses on our list, this is the quick option: about 18,000 students, a 4.5 rating from roughly 1,800 reviews, and almost no one-star reviews. Take it as a warm-up, then go read the jQuery docs, as reviewers themselves suggest. Skip it if you want projects or exercises.