In this course, you'll explore some of JavaScript’s most powerful features to enhance your coding skills. You’ll learn how to design and manage custom objects, as well as work with advanced patterns for handling collections and functions. These concepts will help you write cleaner, more efficient code and leverage JavaScript’s unique capabilities to handle complex scenarios effectively.
Advanced JavaScript 3: Objects, Collections, Functions
This course is part of Advanced JavaScript Specialization
Instructor: Tom Chant
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What you'll learn
Custom objects in JavaScript, including inheritance, method usage, and private property control.
Advanced JavaScript patterns for handling collections, functions, and generators, enabling efficient data management and optimized code execution.
Function techniques such as closures, recursion, and debouncing, improving the performance and scalability of your code.
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In this section, you’ll learn how to create custom objects through factory functions, constructor functions, and classes. We’ll explore inheritance through the prototype chain, as well as the usage of apply(), call(), static methods, and private fields. You’ll also learn how to define getters and setters to control property access in objects.
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JavaScript offers special collections like Map and Set for more efficient data management, which you’ll explore in this section. Additionally, you’ll learn about Symbols, a unique and immutable data type used to create private or globally unique properties on objects.
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1 assignment8 plugins
This section covers advanced techniques for working with functions in JavaScript. You’ll dive into closures, immediately-invoked function expressions (IIFE’s), and recursion for more complex function handling. We’ll also explore throttling and debouncing to control function execution and introduce generators for creating iterable sequences in a more controlled manner.
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