JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts - The First 3.5 Hours
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters call it one of the best JavaScript courses: rigorous and deep but not boring, and freely available.
What it is
The first 3.5 hours of Tony Alicea's Udemy course on JavaScript's inner workings, covering topics such as first-class functions, closures, prototypal inheritance and how the language behaves under the hood.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2016 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec sjnair96 · 2016-09 · on “Free Beginner and Intermediate JavaScript Courses”
If anyone has ever tried Anthony Alicea's JS/NodeJS/Angular1 course[1],[2],[3], please let me know if rithmschool's or any other course holds a candle to it. I really really liked Tony's course as it gave quite a deep look into topics, which are usually only attainable from books, while at the same time keeping it very interesting and also contain lots of best practice material and being extremely dense but easy to digest. Do let me know if you guys know any other courses of the same style. If you haven't watched any of Tony's courses, do give them a shot -- they are the holy grails of online education for me. Rigorous -- but not boring or too long. [1] [this video] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK] Disclaim
Strong rec sjnair96 · 2016-09 · on “Free Beginner and Intermediate JavaScript Courses”
We're two sides of the same coin - I know some JS (can't say I have any sort of mastery though) but don't have good HTML/CSS foundations. Let's trade resources? Here's the one I found to be the best by far - Anthony Alicea's Javascript Understanding The Weird Parts course. It's rigorous, and develops and intuition while not being long and boring. You can quite comfortably finish it in a week. Also, one thing that would really help if you're doing said course is is Joan Mira's notes[2] which I will myself be compiling into a Gitbook for future reference. [1] [this video] [2] joanmira.com/javascript-understanding-the-weird-parts/ If you find anything similar in style to Tony's courses, I would love
Strong rec sjnair96 · 2016-12 · on “Learning Advanced JavaScript (2008)”
Once again I am going to shamelessly plug my favorite course author Anthony Alicea and his JS/NodeJS/Angular1 course[1],[2],[3]. I really really liked Tony's course as it gave quite a deep look into topics, which are usually only attainable from books, while at the same time keeping it very interesting and also contain lots of best practice material and being extremely dense but easy to digest. Do let me know if you guys know any other courses of the same style. For quite a while I have been trying to find similar courses/tutorials of similar caliber when it comes to knowledge gained and being easy to digest. If you haven't watched any of Tony's courses, do give them a shot. Rigorous -- but
Recommends adnanc · 2016-03 · on “Ask HN: What's the most useful online course you have watched?”
Just came across this link from the course authors twitter Javascript: Understanding the Weird Parts - the first 3.5 hours free on Youtube: [this video] Also has the entire course at 87% off [LINK]
Recommends SonnyWortzik · 2019-01 · on “Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript”
There is a yt video that I found very well done and explained very well. He goes very deep in the inner workings of javascript. I think you will like it. It is "modern" but not a new video. It is probably about 3 years old. Still relevant. He has a udemy course for $10 bucks. [this video]