JavaScript Fundamentals & The DOM

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course provides a solid foundation in JavaScript and DOM manipulation, essential for web development. By the end, you’ll be able to build interactive web applications. You’ll work through hands-on projects and challenges that reinforce key concepts and make learning engaging. The course starts with JavaScript basics, covering variables, data types, operators, and methods. You’ll then progress to more advanced topics like arrays, objects, functions, and the JavaScript execution context. You’ll also learn logic and control flow, enabling you to write complex decision-making code using if statements, loops, and logical operators. The course further covers high-order array methods and efficient iteration techniques with loops. As you advance, you’ll master the Document Object Model (DOM) to interact with web elements, modify properties, and manage styles and classes. You’ll learn techniques for selecting, appending, replacing, and removing elements, as well as how to handle user events to create interactive webpages. Designed for beginners with no prior programming experience, this course will make you proficient in JavaScript and DOM manipulation. You’ll complete practical coding exercises and a final project, where you'll build a shopping list app, reinforcing your skills and preparing you for more advanced web development challenges.