Gain core knowledge to begin programming in any language. This course uses JavaScript to explore the syntax of a programming language, and shows how to write and execute your first application.
- Hi, I'm Simon Allardice, and welcome to the Foundations of Programming: Fundamentals course. What we're exploring here are the core ideas and skills you'll always need when programming, on any platform with any language. Now there are dozens of programming languages you could choose from, and we'll see many of them in this course. Languages like JavaScript, C, Ruby, and Python. We'll see what these different languages are good at, and why you might pick one over another. But I won't be trying to make you an expert on any one of them. Instead, in this course, we'll go through what's common across all of these languages.
We'll work with things like loops, conditions, variables, and memory, see how to control the structure and the flow of a program, and what you need to know about what that program is doing under the hood. And we're going to make sense of the buzzwords and jargon that you can't avoid when programming. These words might not mean anything to you right now, but they will. And we won't just talk ideas. We'll get hands-on and write programs in this course to prove these ideas and see why they're important. So that by the end of this course, you'd be comfortable with approaching any programming language.
Welcome to the Foundations of Programming: Fundamentals. Let's get started.
Author
Simon Allardice
Released
9/22/2011Finally, the course compares how code is written in several different languages, the libraries and frameworks that have grown around them, and the reasons to choose each one.
- Writing source code
- Understanding compiled and interpreted languages
- Requesting input
- Working with numbers, characters, strings, and operators
- Writing conditional code
- Making the code modular
- Writing loops
- Finding patterns in strings
- Working with arrays and collections
- Adopting a programming style
- Reading and writing to various locations
- Debugging
- Managing memory usage
- Learning about other languages
Skill Level Beginner
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 13s
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1. Programming Basics
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What is programming?5m 45s
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Writing source code5m 34s
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2. Core Programming Syntax
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Why JavaScript?4m 45s
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Requesting input4m 50s
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3. Variables and Data Types
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Working with numbers5m 4s
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Working with operators4m 47s
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Properly using white space6m 46s
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4. Writing Conditional Code
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Setting comparison operators6m 59s
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5. Modular Code
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Breaking your code apart4m 1s
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Understanding variable scope2m 23s
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6. Iteration: Writing Loops
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Introduction to iteration4m 28s
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Writing a while statement5m 24s
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Creating a for loop3m 39s
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7. More About Strings
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8. Collections
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Working with arrays5m 46s
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Array behavior5m 29s
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9. Programming Style
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Programming style5m 55s
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Writing pseudocode4m 55s
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10. Input and Output
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Event driven programming7m 47s
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Introduction to file I/O6m 51s
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11. When Things Go Wrong
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Introduction to debugging5m 57s
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Understanding error messages3m 21s
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Using debuggers8m 2s
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12. Introduction to Object Orientation
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Using classes and objects6m 28s
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13. Advanced Topics
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14. Exploring the Languages
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Introduction to languages1m 42s
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C-based languages4m 40s
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The Java world3m 13s
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Ruby3m 4s
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Python2m 56s
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Objective-C4m 3s
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Libraries and frameworks3m 25s
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Conclusion
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Where to go from here1m 2s
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