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JS Fundamentals Extra Resources

JS Fundamentals Extra Resources

fun links to explore after JS Fundamentals part 1!

General JavaScript

• Codecademy JS track
• JavaScript Koans
  • this is a great intro to TDD (test-driven development) as well as it takes you through a (failing) test suite and you move from red to green one by one
• Eloquent JavaScript
• JavaScript Road Trip Part 1

Callbacks & Closures

• Understand JavaScript Callback Functions and Use Them
• Understand JavaScript Closures With Ease

jQuery and DOM Manipulation

• Try jQuery
  • a good chance to practice callbacks and closures especially when using jQuery.ajax()

Tools & Debugging

• Discover DevTools
  • overview of Google Chrome's dev tools

Just for Fun & Practice

• Coderbyte
  • lots of great exercises for practicing fundamentals like string or array manipulation
• Codewars
  • local LA company! exercises here range in difficulty from easy to very difficult (organized by 'kata'), and cover a very good range including some design patterns (like factories and singletons)
• CodeCombat
  • single player and multiplayer modes, gamified coding learning