A Udacity course that teaches object-oriented programming in JavaScript, covering how objects, constructors, and prototypes work in the language. It includes a hands-on project building an HTML game.

Commenters point to it for a thorough explanation of JS object-oriented concepts (one suggests it if you have a couple of hours) and for a fun game-building project.

On Reddit (2)

1. Recommendssaadbinakhlaqr/learnprogramming2017in “Do you recommend any games to learn coding in an easy and fun way?”▲ 2

   Try udacity object oriented JavaScript course, they make you build a html game. Quite a fun project

2. Recommendscoolshanthr/learnprogramming2016in “[Javascript] Newbie, In classes why cant you just use local variables instead of "this"?”

   Speaking as a JS dev, it can be a little confusing trying to understand OOP in JS if you haven't tried it in other languages first. The simple explanation is that `employ` and `status` are local variables, and local variables go out of scope after a function call. function greet(a) { var b = a; }…

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