About the Basics Course

Learning to program can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be. There are many things that typically challenge newcomers:

1. Learning a complete new (programming) language
2. Learning to break down problems for the computer
3. Getting your programming tools set up
4. Finding good resources for learning
5. Finding ways to practice

This course helps beginners by providing everything needed to start.

Many newcomers fall into the trap of watching countless tutorial videos, then finding they have trouble actually writing code. This is a common issue. You get good at what you practice. Each lesson will have several opportunities to practice what you’ve learned.

The course includes interactive excercises, so you won’t need to do any extra set up in order to get started.

First lesson: Why use Javascript?

And with that out of the way, lets learn a bit more about Javascript, the language that will be used in this course.