Introduction

Introduction to the course and the course outline.

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About the course

Welcome to Bite Sized JavaScript, a course with detailed, mini-lessons, focusing on practical concepts and theory.

In this installment, our mission is to familiarize you with regular expressions. This is a must-have tool for all developers because they can save unwanted logic from your code when trying to perform a difficult pattern matching, or when trying to perform multiple search and replace actions.

Course outline

As you’ll see throughout the course, we’ll cover everything you need to know about regular expressions for you to become an expert. The best part? We will avoid any irrelevant information.

So, here you go:

  • Chapter 1 will give you a brief introduction to what a regular expression is and how they came to be.

  • In chapter 2, we’ll move on to the actual anatomy of a RegExp.

  • In chapter 3, you’ll learn how to decode every weird character combination you happen to see online.

  • In chapter 4, you’ll go over a set of simple exercises using the tools you’ve been given. These exercises will be very basic, so we’ll also share some real-life use cases you can copy, use, or even find in the wild for yourself.