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Beginner JavaScript
Wes Bos
4 recommenders · 5 threads · recommended in 3 years, 2019–2022 · score 4.4
A paid beginner course by Wes Bos that teaches core JavaScript fundamentals, including ES6 and later features, through hands-on lessons. It is aimed at people new to the language who want a structured path into vanilla JavaScript.
Commenters say it helped them grasp JavaScript more than any other resource and that it covers everything a beginner needs, including ES6 and later.
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There’s a ton out there. I would recommend watch and code by Gordon Zhu (it may be a bit outdated) and I recommend pretty much everyone Beginner JavaScript by Wes Bos. It’s a paid course but it goes over everything you need to know including ES6 and later
It’s not udemy, and it’s somewhat expensive, but I can’t recommend Wes Bos’ Beginner JS course enough. It’s helped me grasp JavaScript more than any other resource. If you’re looking for a free resource I’d also highly recommend Watch and Code by Gordon Zhu
CommonJS is dead. You don't need to worry about it. It was a project to try to standardize stuff within JavaScript and it's no longer maintained. ECMAScript is the coding standard for JavaScript. JavaScript is an implementation of ECMAScript. When you're seeing things like ES6, that's the 6th…
Great point - that was exactly where I was. If you go right into intermediate vanilla JS, it's overwhelming and you will want to stop and miss out on this great career. If it takes learning jQuery first to get that feeling of making things happen in JS, then that's fine! I remember looking at…
Actually, a great (free) course that will get you experience in building something is JavaScript 30 by Wes Bos for 30 days you build a project each day, there’s some really fun ones. I suggest checking that out first since it’s free, then if you still feel like you want a better understanding…