JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts

An advanced JavaScript course for everyone! Scope, closures, prototypes, ‘this’, build your own framework, and more.

What you’ll learn

Grasp how Javascript works and it’s fundamental concepts
Write solid, good Javascript code
Understand advanced concepts such as closures, prototypal inheritance, IIFEs, and much more.
Drastically improve your ability to debug problems in Javascript.
Avoid common pitfalls and mistakes other Javascript coders make
Understand the source code of popular Javascript frameworks
Build your own Javascript framework or library

Basic Javascript knowledge (variables, loops, and basic functions – that’s all the course expects you to know!)
A browser and text editor

Those with basic Javascript skills who wish to improve
Experienced coders coming from other programming languages
New and experienced Javascript coders who want to deepen their understanding of the language
Anyone who has found concepts just as object prototypes, closures, and other advanced concepts difficult to learn
Those who have suffered surprising errors while writing Javascript, and want to learn why and how to avoid them
Those interested in building their own frameworks, or being better able to learn from the source code of other well-known frameworks and libraries