Introduction to JavaScript

4.45
learner icon
88.3K+ Learners
beginner
Beginner

Enroll in this free course to get introduced to JavaScript and its properties and develop interactive and more engaging user applications. Learn to implement statements, operators, data types, and functions through demonstrations.

What you learn in Introduction to JavaScript ?

tick
Basics of JavaScript
tick
JavaScript Overview

About this Course

This course will introduce you to the basics of the JavaScript programming language and the platforms used to code the language in the beginning. Next, you will learn about comments, JavaScript properties, and variables with a few examples. Later, you will get familiar with conditional statements, loops, and operators in JavaScript. Moving ahead, you will be introduced to hoisting and learn the different ways to stop hoisting. In addition, you will also learn about primitive data types, objects, arrays, and functions. At the end of the course, a demonstration of Hive is provided for better understanding. Once you finish this free course, take the quiz and earn a completion certificate.

Are you ready to learn JavaScript, one of the most demanded programming languages in the world? Look no further! Great Learning’s Full-Stack Developer course covers every skill you need to become an accomplished expert in the domain.

Course Outline

Where to Write

In the first chapter, you will learn about JavaScript code and the ways of writing it. The video lecture explains how to write JavaScript code using the console, script tags, and an External js file.

Comments and JavaScript Properties

This section explains comments and why they are used while writing JavaScript code. Also, properties of JavaScript, such as the data types used while declaring variables, are discussed. 

Variables

This part of the course explains what variables are, why you require them, what is the importance of declaring variables, learning how to declare a variable, and the rules that are to be followed while declaring one.

Conditional Statements in JavaScript

This module discusses the basics of conditional statements, the importance of these statements, the different types of conditional statements used, such as if-else case, switch case, and different ways to use conditional statements.

Loops in JavaScript

In this module, what loops are, why they are important, multiple variations of loops such as for loop, while loop, Do-While loop, and what are the different ways for defining loops in the code are explained.

Operators in JavaScript

This section takes you through the different types of operators used while coding in JavaScript, for example, unary operator, arithmetic operator, shift operator, relational operator, bitwise operator, logical operator, assignment operator, and ternary operator.

Hoisting & How to stop it

This section explains JavaScript hoisting. You will learn about the difference between when a var is hoisted, and a function is hoisted. It provides a detailed explanation of the ways to stop hosting.

Primitive Data Types in JavaScript

This section discusses the basics of data types, the importance of data types, the different data types used, the ways to use data types in JavaScript, and the syntax of data types.

Objects

In this part of the course, the basics about objects, why they are known as non-primitive data types, the impression of an object, and the different ways to use objects are discussed. 

Arrays - JavaScript

This module discusses the basics of arrays, the importance of arrays, the different ways of defining arrays in JavaScript, and the different array method types. 

Functions - JavaScript

In this module, Javascript functions, its importance, how they are defined in javascript, how to recall them, and the different ways used to define functions are discussed. 

Our course instructor

Mr. Faizan Parvez

learner icon
1.4M+ Learners
video icon
72 Courses
Faizan has been working as an Instructor of Data Structure and Algorithm for the last 1 year. He has expertise in languages such as Java , JavaScript etc. He is a Subject Matter Expert in the field Computer Science and a competitive programmer. He has been working in the technical content development and is a Research Analyst .

What our learners say about the course

Find out how our platform helped our learners to upskill in their career.

4.45
Course Rating
64%
26%
7%
1%
2%

Introduction to JavaScript

With this course, you get

clock icon

Multi device access

Learn anytime, anywhere

medal icon

Completion Certificate

Stand out to your professional network

medal icon

2.5 Hours

of self-paced video lectures

share icon

Share with friends