JavaScript Basics - Code the Dream Course 1

Lesson 1

• Introductions
• Setup
• Cloud 9
• Command Line

Lesson 2

• Programming languages overview
• JavaScript interpreters (Node & Chrome DevTools)
• REPL
• Numbers
  • Basic Math
• Strings
• Variables

Lesson 3

• Variables
  • Declaration & Assignment
  • Case Sensitive
  • Valid/Invalid variables names
  • Reserved keywords
• Comments
  • Single line comments
  • Multi line comments
  • Using comments to plan
• Boolean type
• Boolean comparison operators
• Type coercion
• Truthy and Falsy
• Strict (non-coercing) boolean operators
• Boolean logical operators
• if statements
• Truthy and Falsy

Lesson 4

• Two new types
  • null
  • undefined
• Block statements
• Control statements
  • if
  • if...else
  • if...else if...else
• Common mistake - accidental assignment
• Looping
  • while

Lesson 5

• Using JavaScript on the web
  • document.write
  • Running an html file in Cloud 9
  • prompt
• Comments
  • Single line
  • multi-line
  • Using comments for thinking/planning