JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts (2024 Edition)

Master advanced JavaScript concepts including closures, prototypes, and ES6 features. Build frameworks and improve your debugging skills in this comprehensive course.

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Brief Summary

This advanced JavaScript course dives deep into the language, covering everything from closures to prototypical inheritance. You'll learn to navigate its quirks and even create your own framework, making you a rockstar in the JavaScript world!

Key Points

  • Deep understanding of JavaScript fundamentals
  • Advanced concepts like closures, prototypes, and IIFEs
  • Building your own JavaScript framework
  • Debugging and avoiding common pitfalls
  • Exploration of popular frameworks like jQuery

Learning Outcomes

  • Master advanced JavaScript concepts
  • Improve your debugging skills
  • Build your own JavaScript framework or library
  • Gain insights by exploring existing frameworks
  • Enhance your coding abilities in other JavaScript technologies

About This Course

An advanced JavaScript course for everyone! Scope, closures, prototypes, 'this', build your own framework, and more.

Javascript 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.

  • Grasp how Javascript works and it's fundamental concepts

  • Write solid, good Javascript code

  • Understand advanced concepts such as closures, prototypal inheritance, IIFEs, and much more.

Course Curriculum

2 Lectures

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Instructor

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Anthony Alicea

Born and raised in Cleveland Ohio, now married and living in upstate New York, 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...

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4.9 course rating
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Bill B.
3.5
7 months ago

The content is good. But the speaker is too slow. I have been watching the course at 1.5 speed to save my sanity.

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Aime L. M.
4.0
7 months ago

Good match, deep understanding of JavaScript engine

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Nick P.
5.0
7 months ago

This course helps me understand javascript much better

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Anand P.
5.0
7 months ago

Awesome course for every JS dev, should go for this course. It will clear your concepts.

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Leo L.
5.0
7 months ago

I usually only give fedback after finishing a course. But having already taken one of Tony's course, I knew it was the kind of content I am after. "Don't imitate, UNDERSTAND", it's the best motto a teacher can have. I come from languages like C and I know even a bit of Python, but javascript always seemed WEIRD to me, and I'm only in lesson 11 and finally REALLY UNDERSTANDING THE WERID PARTS. Thanks, Tony!!!!

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Trent D.
5.0
7 months ago

Seriously, this is a great course on JS. The instructor does a fantastic job of filling in the little questions that always pop up while you're learning something else. I tend to get distracted by these questions, pause the video, then go down a rabbit hole; that hasn't happened once with this course. The instructor anticipates your questions and answers them. I have been working as a developer now for ~3 years and there are some concepts and facts that I am aware of just from experience, but having them spelled out and having the question marks filled-in has been invaluable. I have had a few "ahhhh" moments which are always super satisfying. I haven't been watching the videos in order, instead I am clicking on the videos in order of most interesting, which has been working great for me. There's no filler, all videos are straight to the point and concise. If you're on the fence, don't be, just give it a go.

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Fabiano S.
5.0
7 months ago

It's an amazing JS course, teaches all the fundamentals you need!

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Simphiwe S.
5.0
7 months ago

hehe i know understand the 'fundamental, fundamental' aspects of advance javascript programming

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Dana N.
5.0
7 months ago

The best JavaScript course for bigginers.

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Anna J.
4.0
8 months ago

The whole course was very well organised and informative

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