The Complete Modern JavaScript Course with ES6

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Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course offers an in-depth exploration of modern JavaScript and ES6, starting with fundamental concepts such as variables, data types, and control structures. It advances to intermediate topics including: - Functions, object-oriented programming, and DOM manipulation. - Advanced JavaScript features like closures, execution context, and the 'this' keyword. - Modern ES6 features like iterators, generators, maps, sets, and classes, which streamline coding practices. - A full Professional project, a Typing Test App, is included to apply learned skills in a real-world context. By the end of the course, students will have mastered JavaScript's core and advanced features, enabling them to develop dynamic, interactive web applications. They will be proficient in modern JavaScript practices, making their code more efficient and maintainable. The course emphasizes both theoretical understanding and practical application through hands-on projects. Students will gain the confidence to tackle complex programming challenges. The course is designed for web developers, software engineers, and programming enthusiasts aiming to enhance their JavaScript skills.

Syllabus

Course 1: JavaScript Fundamentals
Course 2: Advanced JavaScript Concepts
Course 3: Modern JavaScript with ES6

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17 hours 25 minutes
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Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Advanced JavaScript Concepts covers intricate details starting with execution contexts and hoisting, offering a deep understanding of global and functional contexts, the ‘this’ keyword, and variable and function hoisting. It explores: - Scope chains for variable resolution in nested functions and delves into closures, explaining their workings and practical applications. - Advanced object-oriented programming concepts like encapsulation, inheritance, and prototype chains, enabling the writing of efficient, maintainable code. - A complete professional project to create a typing test application, incorporating all learned concepts from modular design patterns to event handling. By course completion, students will confidently implement advanced JavaScript in real-world scenarios. This course is tailored for intermediate to advanced developers with prior JavaScript experience, aiming to deepen their language understanding. Key learning outcomes include analyzing and utilizing execution contexts and hoisting, implementing closures, designing applications with modular patterns, and developing a professional project to demonstrate advanced skills.
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19 hours 45 minutes
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Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. JavaScript Fundamentals begins with an introduction to JavaScript's role in modern web development, covering tool installation and writing initial programs. As the course progresses, you will: - Cover variables, data types, and memory functions. - Learn about conditional statements and loops, crucial for dynamic code, through practical activities and coding challenges. - Explore Functions, return values, scope, and recursion are thoroughly explored to enhance problem-solving skills. - Conclude with object-oriented programming, DOM manipulation, and event handling, ensuring students are prepared for advanced topics and sophisticated web applications. The course is tailored for beginners with basic HTML and CSS knowledge, and intermediate developers seeking to refresh their skills. By the end, students will be adept at creating and manipulating variables, implementing control structures, developing modular code through functions, applying object-oriented principles, manipulating the DOM, and handling events for better user interaction, building a strong foundation for advancing their coding careers.
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7 hours 4 minutes
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Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This comprehensive course on Modern JavaScript with ES6 starts with an introduction to ES6, emphasizing its significance in JavaScript's evolution. In this course you will: - Compare traditional 'var' declarations with the new 'let' and 'const' keywords, essential for writing predictable and maintainable code. - Explore key concepts such as block scoping, immutable variables, temporal dead zones, and closures - Cover modern JavaScript features, including template literals for string manipulation, arrow functions with lexical 'this', and array/object destructuring. - Understand default and rest parameters, the spread operator, and efficient object literal methods. - New ES6 data structures like Maps, Sets, and Symbols, along with iteration techniques using for-of loops, iterators, and generators, are introduced to enhance code efficiency. - Modern array methods like Array.from and Array.of are taught for better data manipulation. - Cover ES6 classes, focusing on syntax, static methods, getters/setters, and inheritance for a more structured approach to object-oriented programming. This course is ideal for JavaScript developers familiar with the basics, aiming to upgrade their skills to include ES6's latest features for more modern, efficient, and maintainable code.