The boot.dev app - our new gamified learning platform - just launched its first JavaScript coding course! This one is short, sweet, and to the point. We created a thirty-exercise, two-module course that caters to students who have never seen a single line of code before. That’s right, this is a code-in-the-browser course for absolute beginners.
🔗 What is Taught?
The course is made of 80% code completion exercises and 20% multiple-choice questions.
Some of the concepts covered include:
- Variables
- Printing
- Mathematical Operations
- Loops
We use JavaScript throughout the course for two reasons:
- JavaScript is an interpreted, dynamically typed language. This means we can leave some of the lower-level details for later courses and focus on more interesting concepts immediately.
- JavaScript is extremely popular and one of the most-used programming languages. JavaScript tends to be a language that junior developers are able to find a job using quickly.
🔗 What’s Next?
One of the next courses in our pipeline is a direct sequel to “(Very) Basic Intro to Coding”. We need to cover other core coding concepts like:
🔗 What If I’m Not a Beginner?
That’s great! boot.dev’s focus is on computer science fundamentals, and many of our courses are for more experiences developers.
