Module 1 - The JavaScript Engine, Objectives

By the end of this module, a student should be able to:

• Explain the history and usefulness of JavaScript, and why we're learning it in particular vs. other languages
• Explain the order the JS engine evaluates LHS and RHS lookups
• Define asynchronous vs. synchronous
• Explain and utilize callbacks (and other various async implementations)
• Describe and implement a stack data-structure
• Describe and implement a queue data-structure
• Explain the stack, queue and event loop in the JS engine
• Explain how the stack, queue and event loop works in NodeJS
• Explain the difference between ES5, ES6, TypeScript and why they matter.
• Explain and evaluate what loosely typed and dynamic means.
• Define all the data-types in JavaScript.
• Explain what JavaScript's built-in objects are.
• Define what immutable and mutable data types are.
• Utilize var, let and const in the correct context.
• Identify which types/values are truthy/falsey.
• Write and utilize all the logical operators.
• Write and utilize all comparison operators.
• Explain the difference between == and ===
• Explain how functions are objects
• How to invoke functions
• Identify the difference between function expressions and function declarations and why it matters
• Explain What return does
• Utilize some of the basic built-in objects and their methods to solve problems
• Define and identify scopes and how they're created
• Identify and explain what a closure is and why it's useful
• Utilize closures to create modules
• Utilize the forEach, map, filter, find, every, some and reduce helper methods.
• Declare objects using the object literal, object constructor and Object.create syntax
• Set and get object properties
• Identify the nuances of duplicating objects
• Iterating over objects
• Define how this works
• Define and utilize bind
• Use JavaScript arrow functions
• Explain the difference between class inheritance and prototypical inheritance and its impact on JavaScript
• Define and utilize prototypes in JavaScript
• Define and utilize the new keyword
• Explain why new might be considered old and outdated
• Utilize call to set the correct this context
• Mimic classes in JavaScript, though it's not suggested
• Identify and utilize ES6 classes and subclasses
• Explain why many developers see Object Oriented JavaScript as a bad thing
• Utilize prototypes to delegate behavior between objects
• Explain why immutability is important in functional programming
• Explain one way to create immutable data Structures