Contents
Microsoft is launching a series of free videos for learning JavaScript.
Free YouTube Videos to Understand JavaScript
Microsoft is launching a new series of courses: 51 JavaScript videos on YouTube, all available for free. Last year, Microsoft posted videos for beginners on Python.
The videos are on a dedicated YouTube playlist, making it easy to navigate between videos and view only the ones that interest you. The basic concepts of JavaScript are covered in these videos so that you can apply them in your projects later.
The content covered in this video series
Christopher Harrison, Senior program manager at Microsoft describes the different stages of learning that you find through the videos:
- know the basics of the language,
- learn how to configure your development environment with Visual Studio Code and install Node.js as a JavaScript runtime engine,
- find out how to create a “Hello World” application,
- understand the syntax of the language and tackle more advanced subjects such as objects and programming with asynchronous functions,
- discover the JavaScript ecosystem and the libraries available on NPM.
The videos are only available in the English language. It is preferable to have knowledge of at least one programming language but no prerequisites in JavaScript are necessary.
JavaScript, a ubiquitous programming language
Microsoft insists on the fact that JavaScript has become an essential language among developers, they now use it for desktop and mobile applications but also to program microcontrollers.
Any application that can be written in JavaScript will ultimately be written in JavaScript. (Quote taken up by Christopher Harrisson, Senior program manager at Microsoft)
Many frameworks, DSK (development kit) and API are based on this language. JavaScript is already over 25 years old and it is still among the 10 most popular languages according to the latest TIOBE ranking.
Source: Microsoft
Discussion about this post