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Learn JavaScript
Learn how to use JavaScript — a powerful and flexible programming language
for adding website interactivity.

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This course includes

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Projects to apply new skills

Quizzes to test your knowledge

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Skill level

Beginner

Time to complete

15 hours
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Projects

12

Prerequisites

None

About this course

You interact with JavaScript code all the time — you just might not realize it. It powers dynamic
behavior on websites (like this one) and plays an important role in many fields, like front- and
back-end engineering, game and mobile development, virtual reality, and more. In this course,
you’ll learn JavaScript fundamentals that will be helpful as you dive deeper into more advanced
topics.

Skills you'll gain

Build core programming concepts
Learn object-oriented concepts

Read and write JavaScript

Syllabus
11 lessons • 12 projects • 9 quizzes
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Welcome to Learn JavaScript

Learn about what the JavaScript course has in store!

Introduction
In this course, you will learn about JavaScript data types, built-in methods, and
variables.

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Conditionals
Learn how to use if, else if, else, switch, and ternary syntax to control the flow of a
program in JavaScript.

Functions
Learn about JavaScript function syntax, passing data to functions, the return keyword,
ES6 arrow functions, and concise body syntax.

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Scope
Learn about global and block level scope in JavaScript.

Arrays
In this course, you will learn about arrays, a data structure in JavaScript used to store
lists of data.

Loops
In this course, you will learn how to use for and while loops to execute blocks of code
multiple times.

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The platform

Hands-on learning
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AI-assisted learning
Make progress faster with our AI Learning Assistant, a tool that automatically understands
your current course, instructions, and solution code — and gives you instant, personalized
feedback.

Real-world projects

Job-readiness checker

Interview simulator

Assessments

Explore features

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Projects in this course

Practice Project

Kelvin Weather
In this project, we're going to practice variables and printing to the console in JavaScript so
you can hone your skills and feel confident taking them to the real world. Why? You've got to
master the basics. Get comfortable with these fundamentals.

Practice Project

Dog Years
In this project, we're going to practice variables and strings in JavaScript so you can hone
your skills and feel confident taking them to the real world. Why? These concepts will help
you use your data to output information to your users.

Practice Project

Magic Eight Ball

Build a virtual Magic Eight Ball using control flow in JavaScript. You’ll practice building
decision-making into your programs and gain confidence in writing more robust JavaScript
code.

Meet the creator of the course

Kenny Lin
Web Development Domain Manager at Codecademy

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Kenny is the Domain Manager for the Web Development Domain at Codecademy. He contributed
to a wide range of courses and paths at Codecademy, including JavaScript, Bootstrap, Handlebars,
Phaser.js, Go, Swift, TypeScript, and Lua.

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Learn JavaScript course ratings and reviews

4.5 29,085 ratings

5 stars 66%
4 stars 23%

3 stars 7%
2 stars 1%
1 star 3%

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Super interactive course that spells most of the abstract parts of this language into an
easy-to-digest manner. There's a lot of insight in the forum and I thought it was the
most conducive to progress, as I found that some of my "classmates" were also having
similar questions to mine.

Mark P.
Verified Learner

Each step of the course was clearly explained and the activities naturally deepened
my understanding of each concept. I finished it feeling more confident in my
knowledge of JavaScript than I have with other courses of similar content.

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I recently had the opportunity to dive into the JavaScript course offered by
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What is JavaScript?

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