JavaScript Simplified – Advanced

Hey! I’m Kyle Cook. You may know me as Web Dev Simplified, but not too long ago I was the person saying everything above. I watched hundreds, maybe even thousands, of JavaScript tutorials, but I still struggled to make even the most basic projects on my own. Just looking at a blank text editor filled me with fear.

I just assumed that programming wasn’t for me. It seemed like everyone else knew exactly what to do while I was stuck Googling even the most basic problems. It wasn’t until much later that I realized the problem wasn’t me, but instead was how I was trying to learn.

I realized that the tutorials and courses I was watching weren’t teaching me the concepts I needed in order to become a JavaScript developer. On top of that, the way I was practicing JavaScript was terrible and caused me more harm than good.

Luckily, I stumbled upon the perfect learning technique that allowed me to learn JavaScript and build any project I could dream of.

Learn how to build any project, not just the ones in this course
By far the biggest thing that helped me learn JavaScript was realizing that learning JavaScript is just like learning a foreign language.

There are two parts to learning a foreign language. The words of the language and the grammar of the language. Without a strong understanding of both the words and the grammar of a language you are unable to express yourself in that language. Even if you knew every word in a foreign language it would be useless unless you also understood how to use grammar to connect those words.

This is obvious, but what most people don’t realize is this applies to programming languages as well.

Learning JavaScript is no different than learning a foreign language.
In JavaScript there are two parts as well. The syntax/concepts and the ability to connect those concepts together. The syntax and individual concepts of JavaScript are like the words of a foreign language. It doesn’t matter how many JavaScript concepts you know, if you can’t connect them you can’t create JavaScript programs. This connection of concepts is like the grammar of a foreign language.

Once I realized this I immediately saw why I was struggling so much. I spent a ton of time reading documentation and learning JavaScript concepts, but I never practiced connecting them properly. This meant I knew all the concepts of JavaScript, but had no way to connect them and thus I could not create JavaScript programs.

I needed to change the way I used projects to learn.

Once you become a proficient JavaScript developer then it is time to start diving into the advanced JavaScript ecosystem.

This course will take you from junior to mid-level developer with just under 14 hours of content spread across 65 videos and 9 modules.

This course covers not only advanced JavaScript features, but more importantly covers concepts like security, testing, and how to write clean code.

The skills in this course will set you apart from all other job applicants as most developers never learn any of these concepts until after landing their first job. I personally didn’t even know what 90% of the concepts in this course were when I landed my first job and was forced to learn them on the job.

I can only imagine how much easier it would have been to land my first job if I knew these skills before applying.