Take the world’s friendliest introduction to JavaScript with C2!

We designed this class to be the friendliest possible introduction to programming in JavaScript for anyone — web designers, managers, teachers. Just how much JavaScript can new students learn in three days? Enough that motivated students can continue their education at their own pace having gained a solid foundation of the basics; experienced web designers can start adding custom interactivity to their pages immediately and edit other programmers code more confidently; managers who attend will gain familiarity with the terminology and process of programming, giving them a better understanding of their team member’s struggles and needs, which enables clearer, more effective communication throughout a project; experienced coders or teachers with an interest in conveying their knowledge to non-coders would also benefit from attending this class.

It’s a “Modern” Javascript class in that students will learn the very latest version of the language, ES6 (although at the level we will be teaching class, almost all the techniques learned in this class have not actually changed from previous versions of the language). It’s also modern in that we only cover the industry best practices in JavaScript; the good parts, as we say.

It’s a “Practical” class in that we don’t lecture on theory, we build (don’t get me wrong, theory is very important in a semester-long class for professional computer programmers but in a three-day introduction, the appropriate use of class time is to build stuff. More specifically, build stuff we fully understand). We make stuff happen on a web page and along the way we learn about operators, keywords, statements, data types, variables, loops, conditionals, arrays, and functions; all while building practical, useful features like: interactive tabs, sliders, overlays, mobile menus, interactive forms, an HTML5 banner ad, on-page calculators and even a game. Students leave this class with a process to follow to solve programming problems in any programming language, not just JavaScript.

We should also point out what this class is not: It is in no way a “new features in ES6” class for experienced JavaScript programmers or a JavaScript class for programmers coming from other languages. It is an introduction to programming for non-programmers (although this would be a great class for experienced programmers who want to learn successful techniques for teaching programming concepts to beginners). This class is only three days so we do not cover any prototype-based development practices or object-oriented concepts.