Modern JavaScript for Beginners + JavaScript Projects

Goals

What will you learn in this course:

• A detailed introduction to JavaScript. 

• Information storage using variables and constants (both ES5 & ES6 methods).

• Using the console to debug your code, check errors, and retrieve intermediate outputs.

• JavaScript's strict mode and how it regulates your code.

• Type conversions in JavaScript (including NaN, undefined, and null).

• Various ways to show outputs and get inputs from the users.

• Applying the various operators available in JavaScript on your strings, numbers, and boolean values.

• Understand what are template strings (backticks) and learn how & when to use them.

• Working with strings and applying the various predefined string methods available to you on them.

• Creating numbers and manipulating them with a range of pre-defined number methods.

• Creating conditions using the if and switch statements.

• Creating loops using the for, while, and do while loops and applying the break and continue statements on them.

• Creating both 1D and 2D arrays for varied storage and applying various predefined array methods on them.

• Working with dates and the Math object.

• Creating user-defined functions in JavaScript (including anonymous functions, return, this & self-invoking functions).

• The basics of object-oriented JavaScript (Creating objects, their properties and methods, and manipulating them).

• An introduction to JavaScript's Document Object Model (DOM).

• Retrieving various HTML elements and manipulating them.

• Manipulating the CSS styles of various elements.

• Using event handlers to create an action-reaction effect on your web pages.

Prerequisites

What are the prerequisites for this course?

• Very basic understanding of HTML 

• CSS knowledge is an added advantage.

• A free text editor - Notepad, Notepad++, Atom editor, Brackets editor.