JavaScript Fundamentals

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. JavaScript Fundamentals begins with an introduction to JavaScript's role in modern web development, covering tool installation and writing initial programs. As the course progresses, you will: - Cover variables, data types, and memory functions. - Learn about conditional statements and loops, crucial for dynamic code, through practical activities and coding challenges. - Explore Functions, return values, scope, and recursion are thoroughly explored to enhance problem-solving skills. - Conclude with object-oriented programming, DOM manipulation, and event handling, ensuring students are prepared for advanced topics and sophisticated web applications. The course is tailored for beginners with basic HTML and CSS knowledge, and intermediate developers seeking to refresh their skills. By the end, students will be adept at creating and manipulating variables, implementing control structures, developing modular code through functions, applying object-oriented principles, manipulating the DOM, and handling events for better user interaction, building a strong foundation for advancing their coding careers.