Learn Programming: from Novice to JavaScript Guru in 2 Weeks

Course details

JavaScript is arguably the ideal language to learn programming: it does not require a compiler or a linker, it is simple and easy to use, yet incredibly versatile.

JavaScript is the backbone that gives your web pages life and interactivity, you can use it to customize other applications that you use such as a word processor or a spreadsheet program, you can also create stand-alone programs, and even components and libraries to be used by other programming languages.

This ambitious hands-on, step-by-step course by Dr Alex Davidovic takes you from your first programming steps to becoming a JavaScript guru. The material is divided into bite-size chunks that can be easily completed, and going through half a section every day brings you to the end of the course in two weeks. As soon as you master the programming fundamentals, the building blocks and the ways to control the program flow, you start "swimming in the deep water" and take aim at the advanced concepts such as recursion (a function calling itself) and working with objects.

You learn how to animate text and images, capture the mouse, keyboard and other events, and direct the execution of the program accordingly.

As a special project at the end of the course, you get to design a teleprompter, which comes handy whenever you get to shoot a video for your website. The knowledge that you gain by completing the project is something that you apply to a whole range of software projects.

The course includes 8 sections, 43 lectures, 35 videos, and the download with the documentation and the source code for all the lectures. Also included is the special bonus that allows you to bring your JavaScript and web-development knowledge to an even higher level after you finish the course, through self-study.