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JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts - The First 3.5 Hours

Tony Alicea · course · Watch on YouTube

Python, Ruby & scripting languagesWeb development

What it is

The first 3.5 hours of Tony Alicea's Udemy course on JavaScript's inner workings, covering topics such as first-class functions, closures, prototypal inheritance and how the language behaves under the hood.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters call it one of the best JavaScript courses: rigorous and deep but not boring, and freely available.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 3 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “they are the holy grails of online education for me. Rigorous -- but not boring or too long.”

    Deep, engaging, dense JS course

    sjnair96, 2016-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Free Beginner and Intermediate JavaScript Courses”

  2. “Javascript: Understanding the Weird Parts - the first 3.5 hours free on Youtube”

    Free first 3.5 hours of a JavaScript deep-dive course

    adnanc, 2016-03 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What's the most useful online course you have watched?”

  3. “He goes very deep in the inner workings of javascript. I think you will like it.”

    Well-explained deep dive into JS internals, still relevant

    SonnyWortzik, 2019-01 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: javascript, closures, prototypes, this keyword, free course

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