Practical JavaScript from WatchandCode.com

This is a video tutorial that walks you through building a todo application(yes another TODO app). This is one of the best free Javascript video tutorial out there. The instructor Gordon Zhu covers the building blocks of Javascript that you will encounter a lot as a professional developer. He covers functions, arrays, objects, loops while building a todo application. The best thing is that its not all about code, he also gives tips on refactoring, how to approach a problem as a beginner and how to debug.When you finish this course you should be ready to pick any Javascript framework( React) and continue your learning.

This is the single most important tutorial i watched when i started learning JS. Learned so many different things not only about JS but about programming and programming attitude.

watch and code is a free series of short video tutorials on javascript. It is aimed at complete beginners with no prior coding experience. What makes it really stand out is the fact that during the course you learn everything by building a todo-app. This is very good as it perfectly shows you how to apply the code to build something.

If you really want to learn JavaScript, youll have to learn - how to learn it: Watch and Code - is by far the best resource I have come across. Ive been watching JavaScript courses for years to learn what works and what doesnt - so that I could create the course I always wished I had when I started. When I got to Gordons course - I thought / well, hes already nailed it.

I really enjoyed the format of this course: straight to the point short videos with 1 key concept and a quick recap at the end. Each video breaks down a concept into bit-sized pieces of information.In this course youll start to code right away and I love that approach! Youll start coding the first version of a todo app directly from the Chrome console. In this todo app, youll add one feature at a time: adding an item, removing an item, updating an item, marking an item completed or not, displaying the todo list etc.Each lesson is built upon the previous one, this is extremely well designed as you always use what you already know in the next lesson. This helps you memorize the previous material and use it in a concrete program.In the process of building the todo app, youll learn functions, parameters and arguments, youll review all primitives of Javascript, numbers, strings, booleans, null, undefined and more advanced values like objects and arrays.Gordon will explain variables scopes thanks to a great visual analogy (with circle and arrows) that Ive never seen elsewhere and that works very well. Youll gradually use more complex concepts to reimplement and evolve the todo app until a point where you dont need the console anymore. Indeed, youll slowly move from the console to a webpage with buttons and live interactions. What a pleasant journey!

Gordon's practical Javascript is a great start for a beginner. I found he sets up a solid foundation for a beginner such as gets you asking questions, breaks down every aspect in the code well and keeps you motivated throughout - although, simply completing the course is not enough and you'll find there is a huge rabbit hole to go down into learning the language.

Hands down one of the best JavaScript beginner resource out there. He explains things in a very easy to understand way and the concepts are not strictly for JavaScript but also for programming in general. One thing that I appreciate most from his free course is when he introduced the use of the Debugger, that one certainly takes you up a notch in debugging your code once you are able to utilize it properly.

I've been going through the Practical JavaScript course at Watch and Code. I'm almost 50% done it.The whole course is him building a To Do list app. This is his way of teaching:He explains what something is (for example, an array)He types it out in a code editorHe runs the code and shows the resultRepeatI'm going along, watching what he's typing and typing it out myself.. but I don't learn anything. Nothing is being absorbed. Nothing is sticking.I'm just typing out what he's showing me.Don't get me wrong, I've learned a ton of concepts from him. Variables, arrays, for loops, if statements, and a bit more.. but I can wholeheartedly say that if you asked me do what he's taught so far, without looking back at notes, I would fail miserably.

I paid for his premium service and after going through his free section and now almost completing the premium version I think this has taught me TONS more about javascript than anything prior. Everything that I had watched from the understanding the wierd parts of JS series made sense suddenly because of his explanation and use of the debugger. I am no pro in these subjects but I understand way more about OOP principles, recursion, hoisting, prototypes, closures, etc... the things that JS does behind the scenes, as well as, how to rip apart a codebase library or framework and understand it.

I know its bad but what i struggle with with regards to watchandcode is that it doesn't excite me. I did the practical javascript free course and i agree i learnt so many things. The problem is that after that when i paid for the premium content, for the mere fact that i had to go through the same project i spent 20-30 hours on once again, it completely demotivated me.

Take the free course and spend 30-40 hours with it before you move on to other resources. It really is the best thing out there for beginners.

Before I started Watch and Code I tried countless resources with no success for almost two years straight, now I feel a lot more confident in my coding ability. The premium content will lead you to not have to rely on tutorials to learn to code anymore but instead, you'll learn all about reading source code, testing, debugging, understanding documentation, and many other fundamentals