Your First Taste of JavaScript with AI

Think about giving your computer a simple instruction, like “Tell me a joke,” and it actually responds. Or you ask it for your name, and it remembers because you told it earlier. Or you ask it to add two numbers together, like 1929299292 and 4239284, which gives you the right answer.

That’s the core of coding—writing instructions so the computer can handle tasks for you, step by step. In this course, you’ll learn how to do that using JavaScript.

Your first magic spell

In JavaScript, the console.log command lets you display messages or values, which helps check how your code works.

Try this yourself:

Run it, and you’ll see the message appear in the console. That’s your code telling the computer what to display. 

Make it yours

Change Hello, world! into something personal or silly. Make it something like “I am learning JavaScript!” or “Bananas are the best fruit.”

Prompting your AI buddy

Now let’s use the AI assistant. Enter the following prompt:

Write JavaScript code that prints “Hello, world!”

Run the AI-generated code.

Great! You got the same result, but this time it came from the AI assistant. Now, try refining your prompt in the same place you entered it earlier:

Note: Change the code so it prints my name three times.

Notice how the AI adapts when you change the wording.

The secret to effective prompting is simple: start small and then refine. You will practice this skill throughout the course, writing your own code, experimenting, and asking the AI to provide examples, alternatives, or corrections.

What will you learn in this course?

This course will take you from the basics of JavaScript to building a real application. You’ll begin with fundamentals like printing output and variables, then work your way up to conditionals, arrays, and functions. In the capstone, you’ll practice the whole development process: gather requirements, write the logic, and add a simple interface. By the end, you’ll have a working project you can add to your portfolio.