Intro to Modern Javascript

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TRANSCRIPT

What is up everyone and welcome to our course on modern JavaScript my name is Nemish and I'll be guiding you through the next hour to hour and a half in which we'll be learning some of the new features available in the JavaScript language and using it to build up a real working app. So what is this course all about? Well the general theme is to teach you the fundamentals of the JavaScript language and also to explore some new features available in JavaScript versions ES6 and above. Currently the time of me recording this we are on ES9 but the versions six through nine have really brought some breakthrough features that have made writing code in JavaScript so much more enjoyable. We'll also be building an app throughout this course that will help us to retrieve video game stats from the website Steam. No doubt if you're big into gaming you've heard of Steam and perhaps even used it to buy a game or two. With our new found knowledge of JavaScript we'll be able to retrieve statistics from this website by using a restful API. So who should be taking this course? Well we're assuming that you have little to no previous knowledge of JavaScript, if you have some knowledge already then you may find some of the concepts a little slow nevertheless we are focusing on the new features in the later versions so you might pick up a thing or two anyway. We're assuming that you're keen to learn about new and advanced JavaScript concepts rather. Some of the new concepts introduced in versions ES6 and above cover some fairly advanced topics, so this will be a good way to gain insight into those. We're assuming that you're also interested in data fetching software the main app that we'll be building will be tailored towards fetching software data on video games. So some of the topics that we're going to be covering is first of all what's new in JavaScript ES6 and above, this will just be going over a quick list of the features for each of the versions six through nine. We'll then be talking about how to install and configure Atom, I personally will be using the text editor or ID Atom as well as some plugins to help me run my code. If you don't want to use that, that's totally fine if you're happier with just a text editor and terminal I'll also show you how to use those. We'll be then exploring the JavaScript language basics but we won't necessarily be doing them one topic at a time, rather we'll be building our project and exploring each feature as we need it. We'll be focusing first on fetching online data with JavaScript, so there will be a few tips and tricks to structuring URLs, how to read the data that is incoming, and then actually passing and using this online data with JavaScript. As I said we'll be teaching you the language basics and taking advantage of those new features as we go about building our app. So this has been a quick intro into the course I hope you guys are really excited about learning this 'cause I am super excited to teach it to you and I look forward to your enjoyment and participation throughout this course, so let's get started with the JavaScript new features.