Microsoft offers 51-part JavaScript for beginners course

Posted on Tuesday, October 13 2020 @ 14:22 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Got some time to kill? Microsoft has created a 51-part beginner's series to JavaScript. The course consists of YouTube videos, most of which are just a couple of minutes long:

Throughout the course, we will help you set up your development environment with Visual Studio Code and installing Node.js as a JavaScript runtime, then we’ll then dive straight into creating a “Hello World” app. We’ll look at the syntax of JavaScript and dig into progressively more advanced topics including objects and programming with async functions. Lastly, we’ll explore the JavaScript ecosystem and the vast amount of packages and libraries available on NPM. To best enjoy the course, we do assume you have some experience with a programming language, albeit we assume no prior knowledge of JavaScript.

Here is the first part:

If Python is more your thing, you can also check out Microsoft's 44-parter on Python for Beginners over here.

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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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