If you like this come check out my site www.brian-best.com for more blogs! The following blog is apart of my growing list of guides for teachers and students of online tutorials in web technology. To help judge what a tutorial expects of the reader to know before taking. This time we’re talking about JavaScript, but check out my other guides for and . HTML CSS JS is a big one, growth in it has just exploded in the past ten years. What used to be a system for adding a sprinkling of logic to a page can now run entire websites, hardware, and 3D games. For this guide, I’m only covering Vanilla JS as it exists on the front end in a browser. Later on, I’ll make other blogs to include more advanced features including various frameworks like , , as well as the backend side of JavaScript with Node.js. React Vue For this scale, I will use Beginner, Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced to indicate what prior knowledge a student should know before taking on a tutorial. For each level, the student should know or have: Beginner No previous knowledge of JavaScript Basic JavaScript intermediate knowledge of both and HTML CSS variables, and how to declare them operators, like , , etc. + - functions What an API is How to access and query the DOM Intermediate JavaScript Loops Create and render new elements on to the DOM. How and when JS renders on a web page Events. How to listen for events and create your own. Function and variable scopes, you should know what is this Anonymous functions and Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE) Browser support for new JS features and how to use polyfills to fill in support when needed Advanced JavaScript How to make an AJAX request How to use promises and know when you get data. The differences in var, let, and const to declare variables. What closures are and how to utilize them What Object-Oriented Programming, or OOP, is and how it can happen in Javascript Optimization of logic for speed This blog is only a guideline, of course, there are plenty of cases where some overlap of knowledge will be required. Example being a basic tutorial requiring some intermediate knowledge. For students, just remember Googling for terms you don’t completely understand is encouraged. For educators, it’s not a bad thing to go into more detail on what you think might be necessary knowledge.
