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JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts - The First 3.5 Hours

The first 3.5 hours of Tony Alicea's Udemy course on JavaScript's inner workings, covering topics such as first-class functions, closures, prototypal inheritance and how the language behaves under the hood.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters call it one of the best JavaScript courses: rigorous and deep but not boring, and freely available.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Tony Alicea
Topic
javascript internals
Format
course
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
5
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2019

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • If anyone has ever tried Anthony Alicea's JS/NodeJS/Angular1 course[1],[2],[3], please let me know if rithmschool's or any other course holds a candle to it. I really really liked Tony's course as it gave quite a deep look into topics, which are usually only attainable from …

    sjnair96 on Hacker News · 2016-09
    In Free Beginner and Intermediate JavaScript Courses
  • We're two sides of the same coin - I know some JS (can't say I have any sort of mastery though) but don't have good HTML/CSS foundations. Let's trade resources? Here's the one I found to be the best by far - Anthony Alicea's Javascript …

    sjnair96 on Hacker News · 2016-09
    In Free Beginner and Intermediate JavaScript Courses
  • Once again I am going to shamelessly plug my favorite course author Anthony Alicea and his JS/NodeJS/Angular1 course[1],[2],[3]. I really really liked Tony's course as it gave quite a deep look into topics, which are usually only attainable from books, while at the same time …

    sjnair96 on Hacker News · 2016-12
    In Learning Advanced JavaScript (2008)

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