Understanding Weird Parts of JavaScript

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JavaScript is a must have language of every modern developer who wants to build quality web and server applications. The Understanding Weird Parts of JavaScript course is a bible that gives a solid JavaScript knowledge and covers all tricky parts of it. Via this course you will dive into a clear and precise understanding of JavaScript, learn how it works under the hood, and how this knowledge can help you avoid common pitfalls and drastically improve your ability to debug problems. This guide covers the following advanced concepts: objects and object literals, function expressions, prototypical inheritance, functional programming, scope chains, function constructors. Moreover, the main feature of the course is to teach you to build your own JavaScript framework or library. All gained knowledge and skills will make you a brilliant JavaScript developer, and improve your abilities in AngularJS, NodeJS, jQuery, React, Ember, MongoDB, and more. Learn to love JavaScript, and code in it well.

	1. Introduction and The Goal of This Course	4:56
	2. Setup	3:27
	3. Big Words and Javascript	1:25
	4. Understanding, Frameworks, and The Weird Parts	4:17

	1. Conceptual Aside: Syntax Parsers, Execution Contexts, and Lexical Environments	7:35
	2. Conceptual Aside: Name/Value Pairs and Objects	4:08
	3. The Global Environment and The Global Object	10:58
	4. The Execution Context - Creation and Hoisting	9:43
	5. Conceptual Aside: Javascript and 'undefined'	8:04
	6. The Execution Context - Code Execution	2:54
	7. Conceptual Aside: Single Threaded, Synchronous Execution	2:16
	8. Function Invocation and the Execution Stack	8:06
	9. Functions, Context, and Variable Environments	7:56
	10. The Scope Chain	17:25
	11. Scope, ES6, and let	4:18
	12. What About Asynchronous Callbacks?	10:26

	1. Conceptual Aside: Types and Javascript	2:50
	2. Primitive Types	5:17
	3. Conceptual Aside: Operators	6:32
	4. Operator Precedence and Associativity	14:14
	5. Conceptual Aside: Coercion	6:14
	6. Comparison Operators	19:42
	7. Existence and Booleans	7:24
	8. Default Values	7:51
	9. Framework Aside: Default Values	7:11

	1. Objects and the Dot	15:23
	2. Objects and Object Literals	10:32
	3. Framework Aside: Faking Namespaces	8:07
	4. JSON and Object Literals	7:17
	5. Functions are Objects	8:02
	6. Function Statements and Function Expressions	20:32
	7. Conceptual Aside: By Value vs By Reference	16:09
	8. Objects, Functions, and 'this'	21:26
	9. Conceptual Aside: Arrays - Collections of Anything	5:39
	10. 'arguments' and spread	12:00
	11. Framework Aside: Function Overloading	4:43
	12. Conceptual Aside: Syntax Parsers	2:25
	13. Dangerous Aside: Automatic Semicolon Insertion	5:46
	14. Framework Aside: Whitespace	4:25
	15. Immediately Invoked Functions Expressions (IIFEs)	17:07
	16. Framework Aside: IIFEs and Safe Code	8:05
	17. Understanding Closures	11:09
	18. Understanding Closures - Part 2	19:20
	19. Framework Aside: Function Factories	12:24
	20. Closures and Callbacks	8:26
	21. call(), apply(), and bind()	20:54
	22. Functional Programming	20:17
	23. Functional Programming - Part 2	8:05

	1. Conceptual Aside: Classical vs Prototypal Inheritance	5:11
	2. Understanding the Prototype	14:02
	3. Everything is an Object (or a primitive)	5:46
	4. Reflection and Extend	14:59

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