JavaScript LaunchPad

Overview

Learn to Build Real-World JS Skills Efficiently and Finally get Fluent in the “Language of the Internet”.

Why you should learn Javascript:

More people use Javascript than any other language.
PHP appears to be falling out of favor as Node.js and Angular emerge.
Javascript is the language of the Internet. It's used on 99.9% of every web site that exists today.
When you master the first “principals” of pure Javascript, every “hot new framework” is just an extension of what you already know.

1 - Getting Started

Introduction and The Goal of This Course

Setup

Big Words and Javascript

Understanding, Frameworks, and The Weird Parts

2 - Execution Contexts and Lexical Environments

Conceptual Aside - Syntax Parsers, Execution Contexts, and Lexical Environments

Conceptual Aside - Name-Value Pairs and Objects

The Global Environment and The Global Object

The Execution Context - Creation & Hoisting

Conceptual Aside - Javascript and undefined

The Execution Context - Code Execution

Conceptual Aside - Single Threaded, Synchronous Execution

Function Invocation and the Execution Stack

Functions, Context, and Variable Environments

The Scope Chain

Scope, ES6, and let

What About Asynchronous Callbacks

3 - Types And Operators

Conceptual Aside Types And Operators

Primitive Types

Conceptual Aside - Operators

Operator Precedence and Associativity

Conceptual Aside Coercion

Comparison Operators

Existence and Booleans

Default Values

Framework Aside Default Values

4 - Objects And Functions

Objects and the Dot

Objects and Object Literals

Framework Aside Faking Namespaces

JSON and Object Literals

Functions are Objects

Function Statements and Function Expressions

Conceptual Aside By Value vs By Reference

Objects, Functions, and 'this'

Conceptual Aside - Arrays - Collections of Anything

'arguments' and spread

Framework Aside Function Overloading

Conceptual Aside - Syntax Parsers

Dangerous Aside Automatic Semicolon Insertion

Framework Aside Whitespace

Immediately Invoked Functions Expressions (IIFEs)

Framework Aside IIFEs and Safe Code

Understanding Closures

Understanding Closures Pt. 2

Framework Aside Function Factories

Closures And Callbacks

call(), apply(), and bind()

Functional Programming

Functional Programming Pt. 2

5 - Object-Oriented Javascript and Prototypal Inheritance

Conceptual Aside Classical vs Prototypal Inheritance

Understanding The Prototype

Everything is an Object (Or a primitive)

Reflection and Extend

6 - Building Objects

Functions Contructors, 'new' And The History Of JavaScript

Function Constructors and '.prototype'

Dangerous Aside 'new' and functions

Conceptual Aside Built-In Function Constructors

Dangerous Aside Built-In Function Constructors 2

Dangerous Aside Arrays and for..in

Object.create and Pure Prototypal Inheritance

ES6 and Classes

7 - Odds And Ends

Initialization

'typeof' , 'instanceof', and Figuring Out What Something Is

Strict Mode

8 - Examining Famous Frameworks and Libraries

Learning From Other's Good Code

Deep Dive into Source Code jQuery - Part 1

Deep Dive into Source Code jQuery - Part 2

Deep Dive into Source Code jQuery - Part 3

9 - Let's Build a Framework-Library!

Requirements

Structuring Safe Code

Our Object and Its Prototype

Properties and Chainable Methods

Adding JQuery Support

Good Commenting

A Side Note

BONUS - Source Code

BONUS - Equality and Operator Quick Reference Guides

Equality Comparison and Sameness

Operator Precedence in JavaScript

BONUS - Future of JavaScript Screencast Series

How to Access the Future of JavaScript Screencast Series

BONUS - Getting Ready for ECMAScript 6

Existing and Upcoming Features

BONUS - TypeScript, ES6, and Transpiled Languages

TypeScript, ES6, and Transpiled Languages

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