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Gain insights into JavaScript’s quirks and intricacies. Delve into challenging problems to enhance your coding skills, improving problem-solving abilities and confidence in writing robust, maintainable code.

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JavaScript is a cornerstone of web development, essential for creating dynamic, interactive web applications. As the most popular programming language, it powers countless websites and applications. Learning JavaScript opens doors to a wide range of career opportunities in tech, with its evolving standards making it even more powerful and predictable. This course is designed to explore JavaScript’s quirks and intricacies. Through challenging problems, you’ll test your understanding of the language’s unique behaviors. Each chapter presents a new challenge, prompting you to predict outcomes and learn from detailed explanations, enhancing your coding skills. By the end of this course, you’ll have a deeper understanding of JavaScript’s nuances, improved problem-solving abilities, and the confidence to write more robust, maintainable code, ready to tackle real-world challenges.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Familiarity with basic and advanced JavaScript concepts, including hoisting, variable declarations, and asynchronous programming

The ability to avoid common mistakes and optimize your code by mastering variable scope, function expressions, and data manipulation techniques

Hands-on experience working with JavaScript arrays, strings, and advanced data handling methods emphasizing logical thinking and problem-solving

Hands-on experience solving multiple puzzles that reinforce JavaScript’s key concepts and techniques

Familiarity with basic and advanced JavaScript concepts, including hoisting, variable declarations, and asynchronous programming

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60 Lessons28 Quizzes

1.

Before We Begin

1 Lessons

Get familiar with JavaScript’s quirks, evolution, and key concepts for reliable coding.

Why This Course?

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Puzzles

56 Lessons

Solve challenging JavaScript puzzles to enhance your code understanding and problem-solving skills.

Your Code Deserves a Lift

Discussion: Your Code Deserves a Lift

Discussion: The Usurper

The Mathemagician

Discussion: The Mathemagician

Mortal Koncatenation

Discussion: Mortal Koncatenation

Offbeat Identifierz

Discussion: Offbeat Identifierz

Discussion: The Fun-ction

How Long Is a Pirate Flag?

Discussion: How Long Is a Pirate Flag?

Discussion: What’s This?

The Flat Earth Society

Discussion: The Flat Earth Society

Casting Spells with 1s and 0s

Discussion: Casting Spells with 1s and 0s

Dating with Math

Discussion: Dating with Math

What’s the Value of Math?

Discussion: What’s the Value of Math?

Netherlands or Holland?

Discussion: Netherlands or Holland?

The Permanent Closure

Discussion: The Permanent Closure

Cracking the Color Code

Discussion: Cracking the Color Code

Waiting in Line

Discussion: Waiting in Line

Chasing Promises

Discussion: Chasing Promises

Discussion: Oo Na Na Na

Discussion: Hexorcism

Discussion: The Arrayist

The Chain Master

Discussion: The Chain Master

The Shape Shifter

Discussion: The Shape Shifter

Alphabet Aerobics

Discussion: Alphabet Aerobics

Do You Trust Your Eyes?

Discussion: Do You Trust Your Eyes?

Truth or Fiction?

Discussion: Truth or Fiction?

Discussion: On or Off?

The Grocery List

Discussion: The Grocery List

Negative Gravity

Discussion: Negative Gravity

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Wrapping Up

1 Lessons

Explore advanced JavaScript courses to further enhance your skills and minimize errors.

4.

Appendix

2 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of creating and sharing JavaScript puzzles and deepening knowledge through further readings.

Crafting Your Own JavaScript Puzzle

Further Reading

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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