From the course: Learn JavaScript: Write Modern Code with JavaScript ESNext

Learning objectives - JavaScript Tutorial

From the course: Learn JavaScript: Write Modern Code with JavaScript ESNext

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Learning objectives

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- Welcome to lesson one. What is JavaScript? In this lesson, you learn some of the background and wider context of JavaScript, and you'll see what you can do with it, some of its most important features, and also its main pros and cons. And by the end of the lesson, you'll have an in-depth background knowledge of JavaScript that will better prepare you for the topics that we cover in the rest of the course. So to give you a basic idea of the structure of this lesson, we start by looking at what JavaScript programmers are capable of accomplishing these days, as well as the many possible types of applications that we can create using JavaScript. And from there, we take a very high level overview of JavaScript as a programming language, and we learn about some of the features that make it different from other programming languages. After that, we go into more depth about the pros and cons of JavaScript and take a look at how to interpret the many different version names that are found in the JavaScript universe, as well as a few related languages such as TypeScript and Coffee Script. And finally, we close out by seeing how to run very basic JavaScript code in the console and learning some very basic rules about writing JavaScript statements. So that's our basic plan of attack for this lesson. Let's jump right in and get started.

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