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Joseph Labrecque

Joseph Labrecque is a creative developer, designer, and educator with nearly two decades of experience creating expressive web, desktop, and mobile solutions. He joined the University of Colorado Boulder College of Media, Communication and Information as faculty with the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design in Autumn 2019. His teaching focuses on creative software, digital workflows, user interaction, and design principles and concepts. Before joining the faculty at CU Boulder, he was associated with the University of Denver as adjunct faculty and as a senior interactive software engineer, user interface developer, and digital media designer. Labrecque has authored a number of books and video course publications on design and development technologies, tools, and concepts through publishers which include LinkedIn Learning, Apress, Peachpit, Packt, and Adobe. He has spoken at large design and technology conferences such as Adobe MAX and for a variety of smaller creative communities. He is also the founder of Fractured Vision Media, LLC; a digital media production studio and distribution vehicle for a variety of creative works. Joseph is an Adobe Education Leader, Adobe Community Expert, and member of Adobe Partners by Design. He holds a bachelor's degree in communication from Worcester State University and a master's degree in digital media studies from the University of Denver.

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Jahred Love

Jahred Love is a co-founder and CTO of Xirsys LLC, CPO of Millicast, co-founder and CTO of Innov8Estate and CTO of PLP London. A serial entrepreneur, Jahred has been a software engineer working with JavaScript for the last 20 years, building everything from games and applications to distributed real-time platforms and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Daniel Rosenbaum

Daniel Rosenbaum has more than 20 years of experience as a solutions architect, technical lead, and developer with a demonstrated history of working in information technology for health and financial services. He is a strong engineering professional skilled in enterprise architecture and agile software development of many web-based and back-end data systems.

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Nick Turner

Nick Turner is a software engineer and life-long technology enthusiast. He specializes in building web, mobile, and desktop applications using modern JavaScript frameworks. An advocate of distributed teams, Nick runs a small software company helping its clients to launch exciting, transformative products out into the world.

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Gaurav Mehla

Gaurav Mehla is a full-stack developer who has built web, desktop, and hybrid mobile applications on JavaScript. He has 8 years of solid JavaScript experience. He is currently leading a very productive team in a startup.

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Alonzo L. Hosford

Alonzo L. Hosford is a website developer, trainer, and author. He is the founder CEO of Click Systems Consulting, LLC specializing in WordPress websites and of the Web Skills Bootcamp teaching web developer skill courses. Alonzo is an assistant adjunct professor and curriculum creator of web technology at Raritan Valley Community College.

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Florian Sloot

Florian Sloot is a tech-lover since childhood and during his development years, he learned the importance of teaching and guiding. Therefore, as he got some experience with building applications, he started publishing learning resources himself. To date, he has taught hundreds of students and co-workers.

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Philip Kirkbride

Philip Kirkbride has over 5 years of experience with JavaScript and is based in Montreal. He graduated from a technical college in 2011 and since then he has been working with web technologies in various roles.

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K. Skelton May 27, 2021

I received an e-book copy of this title in exchange for a review. I have been a teaching assistant at code bootcamps as well as in university courses, and I am a full-time professional software engineer.I recommend this book for self learners as well as folks who need a refresher on modern JavaScript. The chapters are well designed: they're dense without being overwhelming; they are well organized with easy to find topics; the examples are typically something that might be part of a larger application. The first chapter is an overview of the history of JS and how it fits into software development as a whole. It sets the tone that the authors want you to explore code and do so using HTML, CSS and JS without over explaining what's going on. You need to trust that the authors will fill in these blanks and from a teaching perspective they're establishing the context of what can be done with the material (code); to use a fishing metaphor they're setting the hook.The remaining chapters cover JS topics, though in such a way that the engineering/science principles are being taught in parallel with the code syntax. Understanding flow control and iterators is core to all programming and those concepts are as well explained as the JS code that makes it happen. In the case where a built-in object is discussed ("Date" comes to mind) the authors include handy tables that include the properties on the object and what it does. Example - Method: getDay() Description: Get the weekday as a number from 0 to 6.Each chapter has several code exercises/examples which I found to be extremely thorough. The jaded might call the examples hand-holding. But for the learner who is new I think having explicit step-by-step instructions and screenshots (as well as information about what should happen with each step) will be very valuable.There is a lot of competition in coding books at this price point. I think this would be a very good investment.

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Mark kho May 27, 2021

I enjoyed reading the JavaScript Workshop. It's a good book for people who would like to learn the fundamentals and also some advanced concepts. If you are in search of a book that will help learn Javascript, this is the book for you!

Amazon Customer Nov 05, 2020

Completed the online JavaScript Workshop and enjoyed it. I have been developing with JavaScript on and off for the past 20 years but wanted to brush up on modern JavaScript development.I found the workshop a good overview of JavaScript. It goes into each topic enough so you have a basic grasp of the functionality and know enough to dive in deeper by yourself.The pacing of the workshop is fast and you need to absorb lots of information but I liked that.Not sure this is the best course for an absolute beginner at JavaScript. Would recommend it for developers who have some JavaScript experience but want to build on that and develop their skills further.

Amazon Customer Jun 28, 2021

Very well written book about the basic JavaScript concepts with each topic divided into separate sections. If you are a new grad and in your journey of job hunt, this would help you in understanding the concepts clearly and help in cracking the interview with core JavaScript concepts such as asynchronous calls, functional programming , getting started with node.js etc., If you just want to refresh you basic js skills right before the interview this book helps in targeting specific topic. Also all the concepts are pretty clear with examples.

david griffin Aug 02, 2021

I have been writing JavaScript code for a couple of years now and I have to say this book is COMPREHENSIVE to say the least. I learned something new every chapter. This is a long book but well worth the read if you are a dev or an aspiring dev. I look forward to reading again soon!

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