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A First Tour of JavaScript for Pythonistas

Stephen Gruppetta
Stephen Gruppetta 17 Lessons 2h 12m
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What’s Included:

  • 17 Lessons
  • Video Subtitles and Full Transcripts
  • 2 Downloadable Resources
  • Interactive Quiz to Check Your Progress
  • 5 Hands-On Coding Exercises
  • Q&A With JavaScript Experts: Ask a Question
  • Certificate of Completion

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Getting Started

1 Lesson 2m

  1. 1. Welcome to the Bike-Share Dock Report02:04

Names and Values

3 Lessons 23m

  1. 1. Naming Values With const and let12:00
  2. 2. Building Strings With Template Literals03:31
  3. 3. Exercise: Print a Dock's Fill Rate08:00

Decisions and Loops

3 Lessons 25m

  1. 1. Making Decisions With if and else04:05
  2. 2. Looping Over an Array With for...of13:00
  3. 3. Exercise: Count the Empty Docks08:30

Functions

3 Lessons 27m

  1. 1. Turning def Into function03:55
  2. 2. Writing Small Functions as Arrows14:30
  3. 3. Exercise: Classify Each Dock09:00

Arrays and Objects

3 Lessons 24m

  1. 1. Using Arrays as Lists03:58
  2. 2. Using Objects as Dicts and Records12:30
  3. 3. Exercise: Skip the Closed Docks08:00

Project: The Dock Report

2 Lessons 15m

  1. 1. Porting the Dock Report03:09
  2. 2. Exercise: Finish the Dock Report12:00

Reviewing What You've Learned

2 Lessons 14m

  1. 1. A First Tour of JavaScript for Pythonistas (Quiz)06:00
  2. 2. A First Tour of JavaScript for Pythonistas (Summary)08:30
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About Stephen Gruppetta

Stephen obtained a PhD in physics and worked as a physicist in academia for over a decade before becoming a programming educator. He's constantly looking for simple ways to explain complex things.

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