Learn JavaScript

This beginner-friendly JavaScript course uses hands-on practice, mini projects, and fun challenges to teach your web page to interact, think, remember, and respond.

Beginner

58 Lessons

10h

Certificate of Completion

This beginner-friendly JavaScript course uses hands-on practice, mini projects, and fun challenges to teach your web page to interact, think, remember, and respond.

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This course includes

122 Playgrounds

15 Quizzes

This course includes

122 Playgrounds

15 Quizzes

Course Overview

In this course, you’ll learn JavaScript from scratch by building things step by step. You’ll start with simple interactions like displaying messages and buttons that respond to clicks. Then, you’ll teach your code to think using logic, remember things with variables, and make decisions based on the user’s actions. You’ll explore variables, functions, objects, DOM manipulation, event handling, loops, and arrays to build simple yet interactive real-life projects. You’ll go from writing your first line of code...Show More

What You'll Learn

An understanding of core JavaScript concepts: variables, functions, DOM manipulation, event handling, conditional statements, loops, and arrays

Hands-on experience creating maintainable, well-structured web applications with an integrated view of HTML and JavaScript

The ability to build a working project that showcases real-world problem-solving in JavaScript

What You'll Learn

An understanding of core JavaScript concepts: variables, functions, DOM manipulation, event handling, conditional statements, loops, and arrays

Course Content

Talk to the Web

Make things appear, change, and respond.

Say Hello to the Browser

Quiz: Say Hello to the Browser

Project: Say Hello to the Browser Make the Page Talk Back Quiz: Make the Page Talk Back Project: Make the Page Talk Back Make Math Happen Instantly Quiz: Make Math Happen Instantly Project: Make Math Happen Instantly Create a Button That Talks Quiz: Create a Button That Talks Project: Create a Button That Talks React to the User Quiz: React to the User Project: React to the User Final Project: Emoji Mood Selector Solution: Emoji Mood Selector

Teach It to Think

Add logic, memory, and branching.

Remember Stuff Quiz: Remember Stuff Project: Remember Stuff Make Decisions Quiz: Make Decisions Project: Make Decisions Create a Smart Button Quiz: Create a Smart Button Project: Create a Smart Button Count and Repeat Quiz: Count and Repeat Project: Count and Repeat Make a List, Check It Twice Quiz: Make a List, Check It Twice Project: Make a List, Check It Twice Final Project: Colorful Button Solution: Colorful button

The Page Is Yours

Control the DOM like a wizard.

Change Anything on the Page Quiz: Change Anything on the Page Project: Change Anything on the Page Style with Code Quiz: Style with Code Project: Style with Code Build a Live Counter or Scoreboard Quiz: Build a Live Counter or Scoreboard Project: Build a Live Counter or Scoreboard Build a Simple Form App Quiz: Build a Simple Form App Project: Build a Simple Form App Move Things Around Quiz: Move Things Around Project: Move Things Around Final Project: Move by a Certain Number Solution: Move by a Certain Number

Build Real Things

Create and launch real, small projects.

Quiz App (A Mini Question-Answer Game)To-Do List (Your First Mini App)Project: Number Guessing Game Timer/Countdown App Project: Pomodoro Timer Digital Pet / Tamagotchi Project: Rock, Paper, Scissors

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