Coding for Visual Learners: Learning JavaScript from Scratch

- [Instructor] Learning how to code can be challenging. It's hard to find good resources that are relevant, practical, and engaging at the same time. This course teaches coding from scratch in a visual and a beginner-friendly manner using the vastly popular programming language JavaScript. Using JavaScript and a programming library called p5.js, you will learn how to code in a highly engaging and visual manner. The emphasis of this course will be primarily on learning programming using JavaScript and p5.js and, secondarily, in creating visuals.

The main focus is to teach you how to program so that you can choose to pursue whatever field that you will like to your newly established skillset. The skills that you will acquire from this course are highly transferrable and could be used whatever you choose to build, whether web applications, programmable robots, or generative art. This means that I will provide you with enough context so that you can build a strong foundation for programming. But I also won't hinder our momentum with irrelevant technical or theoretical points.

The aim is to build a strong but a minimum viable knowledge to get you running with coding. This the course that I wish I had available when I was learning coding myself. If you're an artist or a visual designer, this course is perfect for you as you might find the examples we will be building to be directly relevant to your work. If not, this is still a great course for learning programming as the visual nature of the exercises will help you grasp the fundamentals easier and let you build a strong foundation in a shorter amount of time.