Introduction

Welcome to JavaScript Fundamentals: Objects, Arrays, and Functions

Bianca Gandolfo

These days it is not enough to be able to copy and paste code from the internet and just get it to work.

If you want to become a professional JavaScript developer, you need to understand the how and the why. This is an intermediate course that takes you from “wow it works” to “I know how it works”.

We will go over the pillars of the JavaScript language slowly and in-depth. I will provide you with opportunities to practice and will ask you a lot of questions so that you can master the fundamentals of the language and ultimately set yourself up for success as a professional JavaScript-er!

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand how these examples work and how to implement the internals yourself. Having this depth in your toolbox will help you with your day-to-day coding as well as in an interview setting.

Get clear on how objects and arrays work the way they do

const a = {};

const b = { key: 'b' };

const c = { key: 'c' };

a[b] = 123;

a[c] = 456;

console.log(a[b]);

Master reduce and using callbacks in your code

function partition(collection, callback) {

const basePartition = (result, value) => (

result[callback(value) ? 0 : 1].push(value), result

);

return collection.reduce(basePartition, [[], []]);

};

Implement internals of JS methods

function filter(collection, callback) {

const result = [];

forEach(collection, (value, key) => {

if (callback(value, key, collection)) {

result.push(value)

}

});

return result;

};

Understand commons gotchas when using functions

function callLater(func) {

return function (a) {

return function (b) {

return function (c) {

return func(a, b, c);

}

};

Use closures like a pro

const countClues = () => {

let n = 0;

return {

count: () => ++n,

reset: () => n = 0

};

const c = countClues();

const d = countClues();

c.count(), c.count();

d.count();

Don’t be fooled if you feel like you “intuitively” know what is happening in these code snippets. Spend the next few hours with me to understand the core concepts that connect these examples together so that you can be really confident that you know the how and why your code works. And more importantly, be able to figure out more quickly why something is not working 😆.

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