JavaScript Fundamentals

• Identify JavaScript and ECMAScript within the full-stack technologies’ ecosystem
• Set up your JavaScript development environment
• Master the lexicon, syntax and peculiarities of JavaScript
• Write, execute, debug and test a JavaScript program in frontend and backend environments
• Take advantage of advanced JavaScript functions
• Master Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript
• Use the main standard built-in objects

Developers, integrators, software architects, technical project managers

• Basic knowledge of software development
• Basic knowledge of HTML

1 Introduction to JavaScript

• History of web technologies
• JavaScript vs ECMAScript
• Case studies: front end, back end, full-stack, embedded,…
• Modern JavaScript development environment
• JavaScript runtime environments, memory management, event loops

Workshops:

• Installation of a modern development environment
• Quick wins: a first JavaScript program

2 Fundamentals of JavaScript

• Source code and usual conventions
• Language types: Undefined, Null, Boolean, String, Symbol, Number, and Object
• Grammar, expressions, identifiers, operators
• Declaration of variables
• Literal values
• Basic instructions: conditional statements, iterations, stop, continue

Workshops:

• Writing simple JavaScript programs in frontend or backend environments

3 Functions
Definition of functions
Function expressions, immediately invoked, internal, closures
The keyword ‘this’
Arrow Functions
Functional programming
Workshops:
Creation and implementation of functions, procedural and functional approaches

4 Objects and classes

• Object-oriented approach in JavaScript and prototypes
• Cross properties of objects
• Property attributes and descriptors
• Constructor functions
• Class definitions

Workshops:

• Implementation of different methods of defining and creating objects

5 Standard built-in objects

• The Global object
• Numbers
• Dates
• Text management
• Tables and indexed collections
• Other collections: Map and Set
• Other fundamental objects: Object, Function, Boolean, Symbol, Error

Workshops:

• Use of standard built-in objects

6 Error handling

• Console object
• Error object and throw, try/catch instructions
• Debug your JavaScript code

Workshops:

• Error handling within a JavaScript application
• Implementation of a debugger in front and back environment

7. Special features of JavaScript
   • Scopes
   • Hoisting
   • Strict mode
   • Other notable features

Workshops:

• Anticipating the peculiarities of JavaScript