Programming fundamentals

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Course curriculum

1. Get off to a good start
2. Your motivation
3. Welcome message!
1. Module introduction
2. What is programming?
3. Frontend and backend programming
4. Language comparison
5. Why learn JavaScript?
6. When are you done learning?
7. Course overview
8. Test your understanding of the module
1. Module introduction
2. Installation of VSC
3. Installation of git
4. Installation of NodeJS
5. Start using the terminal
6. Your first program - hello world
7. When errors happen
8. Test your understanding of the module
1. Module Introduction
2. Friendly reminder
3. Comments
4. Variables
5. Datatypes
6. Arithmetic operators
7. Expressions
8. Type conversions
9. Comparison operators
10. If else - control structure
11. Exercise - a small ATM program
12. Note about the ATM program
13. Exercise - is it Friday program
14. Logical operators
15. Exercise - car rental price calculator
16. Test your understanding of the module
1. Module introduction
2. While loop - control structure
3. For loop - control structure
4. String indexes
5. Arrays - data structure
6. Exercise - number finder
7. Array push method
8. Exercise - word finder
9. Exercise - reverse an array
10. Nested arrays and loops part 1
11. Nested arrays and loops part 2
12. Exercise - pattern creator
13. Exercise - draw triangle
14. Debugging with debug mode
15. Exercise - cookbook checker
16. Test your understanding of the module
1. Module introduction
2. Exercise - find the average score
3. Function to find average score
4. Input parameters
5. Exercise - local greeting function
6. Scope
7. Common mistakes
8. Exercise - array reverser function
9. Exercise - does array contain x
10. Refactor draw triangle program
11. Project - car rental part 1
12. Project - car rental part 2
13. Test your understanding of the module
1. Module introduction
2. Objects
3. An example of using objects
4. Exercise - create user object
5. The object short hand syntax
6. Nested objects part 1
7. Nested objects part 2
8. Object destructuring
9. Test your understanding of the module
1. Module introduction
2. Callback Functions
3. Array for Each function
4. Exercise - square function
5. Array map function
6. Exercise - map the users
7. Anonymous functions
8. Exercise - anonymous square function
9. Array sort function
10. Exercise - sort ice cream flavours
11. Exercise - sort holiday activities
12. Test your understanding of the module
1. Module Introduction
2. Read data from a file using readFileSync
3. Exercise - coffee rating
4. Read data from a file using readFile
5. Callback hell
6. Read data from a file using readFilePromise
7. Comparison of read file strategies
8. Race between read file strategies
9. Using fetch to make a request over the internet
10. Exercise - random joke API
11. Test your understanding of the module
1. Module introduction
2. Creating your own modules
3. Using npm part 1
4. Using npm part 2
5. Codealong - Pizza shop
6. Exercise - number guessing game
7. Shop project part 1
8. Shop project part 2
9. Shop project part 3
10. Shop project part 4
11. Shop project part 5
12. Trouble with npm
13. Creating an Express API
14. API Shop project intro
15. API Shop project part 1
16. API Shop project part 2
17. API Shop project part 3
18. Test your understanding of the module
1. Project introduction
2. Weather fetcher function
3. Interpreting the temperature
4. Interpreting the rest of the forecast
5. Sending mails
6. Creating an app password
7. Preparation for Vercel deployment
8. Deploy to Vercel
9. Environment variables on Vercel
10. Expose dailyWeather as an endpoint
11. Run daily using a cron job
1. Final words
2. Study Guidance
3. Rate the education

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Programming fundamentals

Course curriculum

General Introduction

1. Introduction to programming

2. Setup and programs

3. JavaScript basics

4. Arrays and loops

5. Functions

6. Objects

7. Additional function concepts

8. Asynchronous programming

9. Node modules and user input

10. Project - Daily weather service

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