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JavaScript Under The Hood
Learn about advanced JavaScript and how it works under the hood
4.7
(24 ratings)
2.9k students enrolledCourse Instructor: Brad TraversyLast updated 09/2023
Course Outcomes
- Thread and Call Stack
- Execution Context in JavaScript
- Memory overview
- JavaScript Engine
- Async JS features
- Task Queues
- Event loops
Description
JavaScript is a scripting language that uses high-level features of the C language and other languages such as Scheme, Perl, Ruby, Python and more. It was designed by Brendan Eich, who also created the Web browser Firefox.
This course will go in depth on how JavaScript works and how it advanced things like queues, call stack, async JS to name a few are used. You will learn about the following things in this course:
- How thread and call stack work in JavaScript
- What is execution context in JavaScript
- How does JS work with memory
- What are different kinds of JavaScript engines
- What are some async JS features
- Event loop working and how task queues work
Course Structure
10 lectures • 1h 16m total duration
Execution Thread And Call Stack (Watch video)
9min
Execution Context (Watch video)
15min
Fix this code (Practice concept)
5min
Async JS, Task Queue, Event Loop (Watch video)
12min
Quiz (Attempt quiz)
1min
Convert to async JS
5min
Featured Review
Ashutosh Kharat
@ashutoshkharat
5.0
Dec 08, 2022
This so far the best explanatory coding course videos. Thank you for great explanations.
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Brad Traversy
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What you will get:
- 1 hours+ on-demand content
- 2 hands-on-keyboard exercises
- 24x7 doubt solving + instant help
- Practice labs and projects included
- Certificate of completion
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