Skillshare – A Playful Introduction to JavaScript Learn to Create the Classic Minesweeper Game

But why should you learn JavaScript? – because JavaScript skill is essential for Web Development. JavaScript is used for both frontend and backend web development Some of the popular frontend frameworks are React, Vue, Angular; and to learn any of them you must know how to code in JavaScript. Similarly, JavaScript’s backend framework Node.js is one of the most popular frameworks according to the StackOverflow developer survey. Not only web development mobile cross-platform native mobile apps can be developed using JavaScript framework React Native and using Electron.js cross-platform desktop apps are developed. There is plenty of reason to learn JavaScript

The best way to learn a programming language is to have a project where you can apply the concepts immediately after learning them. Knowing about the situations where you can apply a particular concept helps you learn it better. In this class, you will learn JavaScript in a similar manner

I have divided the bigger task of creating the Minesweeper game into some smaller steps Each of these steps has some problems to be solved. In each step, I’ll teach you only those concepts that you’ll need to complete the step. For example, when we have the task to create 10 rows for the board I’ll teach you to create one row and use a for to run that code 10 times

In this way, after completing all the steps you’ll have a good understanding of the basic concepts of Javascript and also your own Minesweeper game will be live on the internet