Learn JavaScript Deeply

At WordCamp Europe this year in Vienna, Matt Mullenweg inspired me during his interview session to learn JavaScript deeply. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to do that regularly until now, so today after beeing reminded by the same person during his State of the Word address at WordCamp US, I signed up for the JavaScript Road Trip from Code School. Although I already know the basic concepts of JavaScript, I decided to start from scratch and after doing a free chapter I was convinced that the Code School web-based, video and interactive approach of hands-on programming courses and coding challenges will make it much easier and fun to learn JavaScript more deeply on a regular basis.

JavaScript Road Trip Part 1 is a short introduction to the very basics of JavaScript’s structure and syntax. While you won’t come away from this course ready to script away, you will get a sense for 1. Just how well done code school courses are; and 2. the basic building blocks of JS.

The 1st level is free and if you want to continue there are monthly or yearly subscriptions available. As an Openstream developer you will get access to all Code School courses for free. There are 17 JavaScript courses available, but also many more from other scripting and programming languages.

JavaScript Road Trip Part 1 Course Overview

1. Level: The Cliffs of Value – Learn to manipulate values on the console – 2 Videos, 10 Challenges
2. Level: Variable Valley – Review how to store and use data with variables – 2 Videos, 12 Challenges
3. Level: Files Falls – Create JS files and source them within HTML code – 2 Videos, 5 Challenges

About The Professor

Jason Millhouse has been teaching since he was a kid and has racked up a bunch of Education degrees since then. A glutton for punishment, he’s nearly finished with a Computer Science degree, too. He’s built and taught curriculum for over 100 DVDs worth of educational material, barely living to tell the tale. He spends his lack of spare time wishing he could play a few video games, impersonating the British voice of his corgi, Charlie, and being the actual Voice of the University of Central Florida Marching Knights. Reach him with @ItsThrillhouse on Twitter.

I’ve just completed level 2 of part 1 and look forward to completing level 3 and then continuing with part 2.

If you have any other recommendations for learning JavaScript, please leave a comment.