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JavaScript
Codecademy
38 recommenders · 38 threads · recommended in 10 years, 2013–2022 · score 51.8
An interactive introductory JavaScript course on Codecademy covering core syntax and fundamentals of the language, taught through short in-browser exercises. Commenters use it as a starting point before jQuery or frameworks.
Commenters repeatedly call it the go-to first step for learning JavaScript syntax and basics before moving on to jQuery or frameworks.
Web & Mobile Developmentbeginnerfreemiuminteractive MOOC#javascript#syntax#fundamentals#web development#interactive exercises
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Mind if I ask what text book you’re using in class? I’m a beginner, self teaching JS using online courses. I’ve been looking for decent literature on the language that might be a little easier to comprehend than websites that just expect you to know what’s what and explain things with that…
This Scrimba JavaScript course is pretty good and interactive but it requires you to have done the HTML and CSS course beforehand, which doesn’t take that long either. You could also look into the JS courses on freeCodeCamp and Codecademy.
You need to master your for loops and all the basic array manipulation methods: for each, map, filter, find, push, pop etc.. Then object manipulation. Also learn properly the difference between const / let. Like said previously MDN is your friend. I would also recommend you to re-do the basic…
JavaScript is used to make your website dynamic. For example you can * Take user input and do things with it. * Change parts of the website without having to reload it using the DOM element. * Send and receive data from a webserver. * Draw graphics (2d or 3d) using the canvas API or other…
Second this completely. I’d also add that codecademy has some great courses in JavaScript and Python and FreeCodeCamp is an incredible resource.
Codecademy has a really good and comprehensive JS course available here
I'd suggest only taking one course at the time. Codeacademy's JS course is pretty good IMO (YMMV) so just do that. FreeCodeCamp's is way more wholesome, so you might want to do the whole webdev thing. Games aren't easy to do, especially if you're planning on using canvas (which, if you don't know…
Lots of tutorials! Udacity and Code Academy were a couple of free websites I used to go through guided courses on HTML, CSS, Javascript and SQL (I would recommend you start here as well). ​ Order I'd recommend is: HTML/CSS course (on one of the aforementioned websites), next do a JavaScript…
I quite enjoyed using www.codecademy.com when I first learnt to program. They do interactive courses on JavaScript which I'd recommend you give a try!
Codecademy has a pretty good JS course (and teaches some ES6 stuff, which is pretty handy). If you want to check out Youube, I like Coding Train, but the guy is a *little* eccentric.
as someone who taught themselves to program over the last 18 months, I actually disagree with that advice. The best thing you can do is get all the basics down first, and then try to build something with your knowledge. I recommend JavaScript for beginners. Do the basic codecademy JavaScript…
20yo here. I started with HTML & CSS when I was 17. From then till now the web development journey has been amazing. Creating things(webapps) masses uses, making code contributions to popular repositories being used by millions of developers is surely a feeling of Joy. You will surely have a…
What aspects of the JavaScript section are giving you a hard time? If it's syntax related, I would recommend first working through codecademy's JavaScript course, as it will give you a general overview of how JavaScript works. If it's thinking like a programmer that's giving you trouble, I would…
I also like Codecademy and I often recommend it to people as a starting point. It introduces you to what code looks like and lets you write some of your own. That said, the notion that "you'll need to do some work on your own" is a big understatement. Codecademy might get ya started, but in order…
Codeacademy's javascript course is really good
www.codecademy.com will be a good friend to you. Take their HTML/CSS and Javascript courses. They are basic but will definitely help you. Then read http://eloquentjavascript.net/ great book I am going through currently. Can't say much for back-end since I am a Front End Dev. But it is always to…
There are many different ways an ad blocker works, but basically it's matching the urls requested by the browser against a dictionary of patterns (are the letters 'ad' part of the URL, is the host domain an ad company, and so on), so it can block them even before the page is loaded, and it's…
Of course, talking to school professors is always a good idea. If you want to do some online learning, for HTML/CSS/JS I would recommend Codecademy, they have good web dev courses. Go for the HTML & CSS course, the Javascript course, the jQuery course, and the Make a Website course. That should be…
yeah, what /u/jonodonovan said. for HTML/CSS, I didn't really read any books, I just did the codecademy html/css tracks a couple times, then did the freecodecamp.com html/css ziplines. for the most part, HTML/CSS aren't difficult to get a grasp on compared to JS or PHP. for JS: Do the codecademy…
You're just copy and pasting scripts, aren't you? If you can't read this, then I don't know how to help you. Take some JavaScript courses on CodeCademy or FreeCodeCamp.
I'd recommend going through code academy's JS tutorial. It will be extremely redundant but it's mainly to learn the syntax. Then take a look into jQuery and try to design a website with a lot of user controlled dynamics. I recommend the Odin Project's JS and jQ course and see where that takes you…
To get straight into it this site is great: www.codeacademy.com (They have free courses on HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and PHP - all of which you will want to learn eventually but I recommend starting with HTML/CSS and then JavaScript) CS50 looks really good as well. From a soon to graduate CS student…
I think it's a really good first step that you've decided you want to improve. The MEAN stack is not necessarily the best combination for every job, as /u/r_park wrote there is a lot of churn and you need a solid base of understanding js and the available tools to make good decisions. Since you've…
Nah man do a coding boot camp and you're golden. There's online part time boot camp options as well. Just do the Harvard cs50x MOOC on edx to get a basic understanding of computer science. Can be done in maybe 3 months if you really jam. Then do the Javascript code Academy track, Javascript koans…
Great job of finishing these course. Next step is the JavaScript course, then the jQuery course and/or "Making interactive website" course. JS is a big one as it's easy to pick up, but hard to master. JS is really powerful these days and the number of JS frameworks that can do different types of…
Try the JavaScript codecademy course for about four units and follow it through. I guarantee you it will click. I was in your position when I began.
You're right. But really all you need to know is covered in the Javascript Codecademy course. So do that little course then get the book.
JS: https://www.codecademy.com/ has a great JS course, once you're done with it I highly suggest installing sublimetext as your texteditor and installing sublimelinter and jslint. This will flag errors inline which will remind you to close all of your statements off or make it glaringly obvious…
The best way to learn in this industry is always to just jump in head first and start making things with whatever interests you. Reading books helps of course, but you'll learn the most from just *doing things*. I don't code a lot of back end myself, but If you want to learn front end development…
The answer to your question is a definite no. Firstly, because jQuery is based off of JavaScript, you'll need to know the latter before you can use the former from a syntactic perspective. Second, you'll need an understanding of the core JavaScript that powers jQuery, otherwise the second…
I think JavaScript is the way to go as well. Start with just plain vanilla and then go from there! I would do the JavaScript course on codecademy (I would dabble with every language they offer too!) and then move on to this book (you can also find it for free). Just an idea... You could love or…
* Both the Javascript and Jquery CodeAcadmy courses are great. Take them if you want to add a bit of functionality to your site. * Keep expanding your CSS skills, CSS Tricks is a great site for reference and to get better * Also check out the Mozilla Developer Network. Probably the best CSS…
HTML5 and Javascript is one of the common ways. I'd recommend this course on HTML5 Game developement from udacity. So, I'm guessing you don't have Javascript experience, I'd recommend the codeacademy for that, just do there Javascript course and you should be ready for the above course.
Start here: http://www.codecademy.com/ Do their JavaScript course to get yourself started. Then you can decide if you want to do PHP/Python or something else, if you want to do back-end development or you can focus on JavaScript, if you want to stick with front-end stuff.
Sounds like a web dev job. I would take a look at the web development course on Udacity and the Javascript course on Codecademy to get a good understanding of how the web works.
Haha. Glad to help. Rails (specifically "Ruby on Rails") is a framework built on top of the Ruby programming language. There are other frameworks built on Ruby that are pretty fantastic. Sinatra is one. Much lighter than Rails, and might be a better choice if your app doesn't need all of the Rails…
Yes and no. Ruby (which is what Rails is built on) is a great language to learn programming with, but you're going to need to know some JavaScript if you want to build a modern web app. Both have their quirks, but I think Ruby's flexibility and syntax really make it fun to learn. Python is another…
I've done the HTML/CSS and JavaScript courses on CodeCademy and highly recommend them. Codecademy is interactive enough that I stay focused.
I don't think it is a stupid question at all. HTML/CSS are only the building blocks used to make a basic Web site. If you want functionality, like say have something put into an HTML form go somewhere, or do something, then you'll need to move forward with coding. I think Javascript is a good…
My opinion: Anything that’s worth paying for comes later down the line in self-directed learning. I.e. you’re not going to get a lot of added value learning the foundations from a paid course, all the free ones are really high quality now. That changes as you get further down a path and…
I notice a pattern with people trying to learn complicated skills like programming, but also something like (non-programming) languages in general. People always complain about "I spent this many months on it and I'm still at a beginner level!". For myself, I've noticed that this is a very clear…
Great, thanks. I think I'll give PHP a look then. Oh no, don't do that! Within the different language courses on Codecademy sometimes there are different authors, it just so happened that for several of the subsections for this specific language, JavaScript, it was written by someone whose second…