What are computers really? Do they speak programming languages? Is it hard to write your own programs? This course answers these and many other questions and explores the nature of computers, code and some fascinating ideas that allowed us to create modern computers, mobile phones, internet and, you know, pretty much everything we rely on every day.
Goal: Ask and try to answer some simple, but important questions: what's a computer anyway? Is it smart? Does it speak programming languages?
theory (05:32)Goal: Explore the idea os programming languages and figure out what language should you strat with.
theory (05:43)Goal: Write your very first program in JavaScript and get to know the Hexlet's virtual computer that you'll be working in during the course.
theory (05:10) quiz exerciseGoal: Learn about basic math in JavaScript, work with numbers and constants to calculate the total energy of your body using Einstein's famous formula.
theory (05:04) quiz exerciseGoal: Learn about functions — the building blocks of programs, how to create and run functions.
theory (05:11) quiz exerciseGoal: Learn about conditions and boolean algebra, the mechanism that allows programs do one thing or do another thing based on some information.
theory (05:43) quiz exerciseGoal: Understand how errors arise in computer programs, how to recognize them and fix them.
theory (07:54) quiz exerciseGoal: Wrap your head around one very powerful and extremely important concept in programming — recursion.
theory (06:31) quiz exerciseGoal: Recursion is great, but the plain recursive process is not too efficient. Learn about an alternative way to compute recursively.
theory (06:05) quiz exerciseGoal: Learn about variables and a way of repeating code with loops. Understand the important distinction between declarative and imperative programming.
theory (07:14) quiz exerciseGoal: Get to know text data, strings and learn to manipulate them: glue together or take apart.
theory (05:27) quiz exerciseGoal: Learn some arithmetic shortcuts to quickly change the values of variables, and get to know the for loop — another way to create repeating code.
theory (02:36) quiz exerciseGoal: Understand the idea of testing code — writing code that checks the behavior of other code, look at some examples and write your own tests
theory (05:19) quiz exerciseGoal: Understand the important distinction: expressions vs. statements in JavaScript. And learn how this knowledge will help you.
theory (04:38) quizGoal: Understand how and why isolated environments are created in JS, what scoping is and how cool are closures.
theory (07:39) quiz exerciseGoal: Learn about types in JavaScript, and understand the difference between dynamic and static typing and weak and strong typing.
theory (07:22) quiz exerciseGoal: Explore the idea of determinism, side effects, and purity in functions. Get to know the beauty of pure functions.
theory (06:55) quiz exerciseWe recommend you to work on these challenges after completing the course. They will help you obtain more experience in programming and strengthen new skill.
# | Challenge | Success rate |
---|---|---|
1 | Formatted time | 91% |
2 | DNA to RNA | 93% |
3 | Perfect numbers | 93% |
4 | Angle Difference | 89% |
5 | Happy ticket | 93% |
6 | Sum of square | 95% |
7 | Palindrome | 87% |
Co-founder and CEO of Hexlet. Previously — instructor at International IT University, developer (Ericsson Canada, Macadamian Labs).