Javascript is Easy 

I've been a front-end developer for 5 years and this is one of the best introductions to Javascript I have seen. Nothing in depth; just the basics everyone should know.

I'm currently learning Javascript and my main problem has been that most resources just show you what to do, but none of them actually explain why it does it. I'm one of those odd people who has a hard time with that apparently. I need to understand the logic behind something before I can really get it. Now I do, this is exactly what I was looking for! Now when I go back and start writing functions, I understand what the hell I'm actually doing. haha Thank you so much! :-)

Thank you!! Ivan on tech sent me over!

You brothers are thought-driven, teachers at 'root level' of Javascript. I appreciate it!

I remember watching this same video when I was first learning 6 months ago. I'm re-watching it for the first time since then, and most of it seems like review now. It sucks really bad in the beginning especially if this is your first language. If anyone new is reading this, just keep at it. Do not learn/memorize any frameworks - jquery/react/node untill you master Vanilla JS. Godspeed.

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Since I have always been a true Javascript idiot, this video really did explain the basic framework that I feel I needed to even begin to understand Javascript. I especially like the way this video was made because with Ben and Jared together, it's like informal, social learning--the best way to learn in my opinion. Thank you!

As an artist myself, the tag and bag analogy was excellent for helping me grasp the concept of an object. Thanks a million, guys!

Hi , I am learning JavaScript for about a week and finding a bit hard ... when I came to this video every doubt just got cleared and both of you really rock . This really help me. Thanks.

This video marks the difference between learning JavaScript and UNDERSTANDING JavaScript! I swear 99.99% of all tutorials and online lessons teach you to learn javascript (i.e. memorize, replicate) but they don't explain JavaScript - like this video does. I personally can't learn something until I understand it. Kudos to you two for doing this! I look forward to your next videos!

I know this was made a while back but seriously, you guys are phenomenal. This was incredibly helpful. Happy holidays to you both

I vote for you guys to have your own tv show. Awesome fellas!

The visualization really helped. I need to visualize everything, and that's how it sticks in my brain. Great video!

Great video. Thank you, guys, for spending your time recording this video. While there are lots of critics in the comments below sharing their opinion on how Javascript is easy or not, they are not the ones getting off their butts and making a video. It is easy to talk, but not to easy to take action. Thanks again!

Watching this 2019 still great foundation about basics, probably the best explanation on RU-vid to get into JavaScript/programming

FANTASTIC job, guys! I love the informal tone of this presentation and the clear-cut explanations. Keep up the good work.

Been struggling to find the 'right' video for me as an absolute beginner until I found this! I watched many JS tutorial for beginner but I found this very simple and super basic analogy and teaching helps my struggling head to get a better click/understanding with the JS logic. I'm not genius but I'm not stupid either..I just need to find 'the right method' for my brain to work better.. haha... thank you sooo much for making this video, guys!! Oh you two are funny, it put a lot of big smiles on my face when watching this video :D

I really love the way you both took the role of teaching each other the language. You created a salubrious method that not only made the information clear by way of appreciating the process of learning, but also steered completely clear of typical pretentious beleaguerment. Thank you.

Great video

THIS! This is extraordinary, this is the video i was searching for half a year, now everything goes into their places, you guys are awesome! Have a good luck!!!!!

Thank you for clarifying the basic structure that every other resource seems to breeze past. This helped me a great deal!

Your conceptual approach is such a time saver. Thank you for distilling your hard slog up the learning curve and teaching me enough about the language to start coding in it and reading existing code. I am really looking forward to learning more.

actually primitive types are: - numbers - strings - booleans - undefined - null and (=) is not equal operator it's assignment operator.

goodnesss i wasn't expecting to learn anything here. i saw this video the other day popup on my youtube home recommendations and i added it to watch later like i do for tens of different videos and never watch them.i do watch a few based upon their clickbait value and this grossed my list at clickbait level 1000. i just wanted to see how can someone call javascript easy and damm benny.Mate you made it easier than gulping down an ice cream cone and jared, boyy you are the chocolate in which the coned is dipped and it holds the whole ice cream together at mcdonalds(i don't know if they sell something like that in the US !!!). Anyways, i have felt the kick that it is probably easy. As i now have the technical jargon that all others used that a layman never gets a hang and decides to leave. this is a comment on your channel after 2 years but you guys made me all excited and i had to right down this short speech of appreciation. cheers!!!!!

Just starting out as a web developer and this video was the best one I could find anywhere, period. You really broke it down to the basics for me which I definitely needed. Thanks much and I hope all is well.

I want to thank you guys! This was one of the first videos I watched when first learning JavaScript. This helped me understand JS so much.

seriously good break down of the actual dynamic of the relationships, so few good sources on the web like this one

Fan-bloody-tastic! You really drove home those basic concepts which have caused issues for me. thank you so much guys!

omg. now that i watch the Jared's part i understand more why this video hooked me! I'm a bit of artist and a visual learner, that's why this video style works really well for me. Awesome!

Guys! Please do more chill videos like this where you create programs together on a white board and call them code sessions or something. This is a great teaching approach that kept a lot of people engaged for over 45 minutes. You did a great job. Now you can take the formula of the delivery and implement it to teach a bunch of cool things in a really cool way. You could combine the idea with screenshot coding to put two environments together.

Guys, thank you so much! I have watched plenty of videos, but 99% of them lack explanation on what's the logic behind the language and you just explained it to me so that it'll save me hours probably :)

I followed along sooooo well with a smile on my face because I was finally actually understanding this stuff. The first guy was explaining it perfectly, and dumbed down/simplified just how I like it, but when the second guy got on I started to not follow. Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy I can tell, but he was talking a bit to fast and his explanations were confusing because I felt he was going back and forth a bit between things. Great video non the less, I kept going back to parts until I could understand.

Thank you for making this. The invoking a function within a function was particularly helpful to me!

Great tutorial, you two work well together! As a designer/front end developer it really helped to have both explanation and visual! Thanks a lot!

Excellent! I love the teaching style in this video. I'm a super visual person and being able to see the instructor write on the board is great. you guys explain things in easy to understand terminology. other videos I've watched just have a slideshow with a guy talking in the background and makes me feel like there's no way I'll ever learn coding. But you guys are amazing!

Just started recently learning Javascript. Thanks for this tutorial. after watching this everything made sense that I've learned!

Great tutorial! I'm excited for the next few tutorials you guys have made. You make it very easy to understand.

Cute to watch an English major (Jared here) try to translate Javascript instruction! Much appreciated!

Wow. You two should be teaching Javascript to everyone. Literally the best, most easy to understand explanation I’ve seen anywhere.

I've been watching JavaScript videos for 2-3 months now and you guys just made it easier for me. Now I now what all the values, expressions, and functions mean and how things work. It's very similar to database design creating tables, attributes, nested...and sql. I'm creating a new playlist for you guys, thanks

thanks for this video! i've been using javascript for a little while, but i never bothered to learn the proper terminology until i had a teacher who was asking me what things were in my code. so this really helped me take a step back and relearn it all :))

I loved this video!! This is the clearest explanation of any imperative language I have been exposed to in my journey to learn coding so far. Thank you!!

Excellent, I've been on a fundamentals bootcamp that helped us learn to plug code but have been searching for the inherent "meaning" of it to aide me in my creativity and purpose. This was a big help!

A total beginner to tech, watched this many times this tutorial awesome to learn values operators boolean objects function strings and JavaScript code 👍👍

Really enjoyed this video, thank you! Ben's explanations were extremely helpful and lucid.

You guys rock. I'm a designer who also works as an ESL English teacher. I've recently gotten interested in coding, but I can't seem to find someone who'll just teach the ABCs and 123s of Javascript before trying to get me to read a whole paragraph. My goal (if I finally figure it out) is to help other total beginners by explaining it like they're five. You hit the nail on the head by showing that your kids can understand it first. More people would learn to code if it was explained like this. Thanks.

finally!!! thank you so much, I was pretty much lost in javascript for about 3 weeks until now. thank you so much

Great approach: simple, yet precise. Even for someone who (says) know javascript, really helped to better understand basic terms and structure of the language. Keep on it! We'll follow.

you guys did a great job explaining the basics of javascript and programming in general.

Great video! Hope you have many more to come!

Loved the analogies used to explain functions. You have consolidated my understanding of javascript and thank you for that. This is a great video of giving a great foundation to learning to code. From my experience i find that writing code is not the difficult part, it's reading code and trying to understand what it's doing is the main problem. Well done again and keep up the good work.

I like the interaction between you guys. It make the lecture much more engaging! Thanks for sharing this knowledge.

This was an excellent video! Really like the "pair programming" aspect going on. I found in tremendously helpful.

I'm enrolled in Ivan on tech academy and he sends me here. I'm newbie at JS and now I have in my mind like a graphic and idea of what functions do. Thanks a lot. I'll subscribed to your channel right now.

Best damn explanation for OOP in JavaScript tutorial.

Wow, I just started learning JavaScript and felt overwhelmed. After watching this, I have a better understanding of what the functions are doing. Hopefully, I'll be able to translate this to my project. I was not understanding how to frame the function. I'm a visual artist and it helps to see the visuals to understand. Thanks for breaking that down.

Thanks for the great tutorial. I am in the early stages of learning JavaScript.

Right at the 39 min mark it is stated that args and params are the same thing - This isn't essentially true. If you reference an arg when you mean a param you're going to confuse the person you're talking to. The values placed in the function signature at it's declaration are parameters. The values placed in the function call are arguments. function makeDistinction(param1, param2) {

This is a good double act, kept simple regarding defining the language by using existing understanding!

You guys are awesome. You need a TV Show. Seriously. Great explanations! Gonna show this to my nephew and niece! Thanks for clarifying this stuff!

Very useful guys. I've been a dev for years. I have been trying to get js but since I am not a 'clean slate' I think too much like a dev. I can't wait for the next video. Please keep up the format and good work!

Explained very well. I knew absolutely nothing about JavaScript(coding for that matter) before this video and now I can explain to my friends the basics of it. Thank you so much

You guys are awesome, very crisp foundations and very important information for anyone that's starting with javascript.Thank you for creating the training video!

great video I'm currently enrolled in a full stack bootcamp understanding why I should do something is very important to me thanks guys thumbs up!!

Thank you so much for this video. I just recently got involved in JavaScript and this tutorial has cleared up the one thing that had me confused the most. And that is how to use the same variables in different functions and this video does a great job explaining just that, and also made me realize some other very cool things I wanted to do but didn't know how. It is just a matter of understanding and if you have a good imagination you can do awesome stuff with this.

seems like both of you enjoying doing all of those teaching things, keep it up. I enjoyed too, thanks anyway for making this video

Guys thank you for making this video i understand this 100% very clear please keep doing more.

This was great!!! I am a visual learner and I was able to grasp the concepts much easier this way then in many other videos! I am excited to see your other Videos. I Have been procrastinating beause I was fearful I wouldn't get it. Thank you for breaking it down so well!

Great job explaining basic javascript foundations, especially objects. Keep up the good work, I look forward to watching more videos to come

very useful...love the bag (var) example and function add and avg explained....really appreciated

Excellent video, guys! Such a great basic foundation from which to master the JavaScript language. I've watched many videos, read books and taken courses on JavaScript and I don't think any of them explained the fundamentals this well. Make more videos!

Awesome grounding for beginners, I had my boys watch this and they thought it helped with their understanding... Keep it up!

Really nice video. Good job. I know a little of Javascript but I forgot the fundamentals of programming. This video helped me. I think I'll teach my kids programming in the way you did :)

Just found this video..Started with Js and got confused with functions.. but this video cleared everything. i thought you were going to use the 12 you got from countApple and add it to 3 + 9 and divide by 2😅😅😅😅. but rather its called back the countApples (3, 9) from the previous function😁😁😁.. GOOD INFO.. SO HAPPY I FOUND OUT THIS CHANNEL.

You guys made it very easy to understand. exactly what i was looking for.Thanks.

This is really good stuff, guys. As with practically everything, the BASICS is where it's at and you've explained them very well. Just one thing, strictly speaking, parameters and arguments aren't the same thing. Google "formal parameters vs actual arguments" or any similar phrase.

Thanks for the video, very well explained! I personaly liked the grafic representation with bags, just what I needed.

Nice way to bring things to the bare basics. Plus showing this on a whiteboard keeps it even more simple as opposed to showing a screencast of your laptop screen. Thank you.

Good Job you guys. I intend to show this to my kids 7 and 12. Really easy way of understanding objects in Java/Javascipt. Cheers.

Another world opened for me after this video. Thank you! I finally have acquired the logic.

OMG.. awesome video guys. I'm a total newbie in programming and this somewhat gave me an undrestanding of programming and also the "bag" tutorial helped me a lot too understanding a little bit the meaning of "values" and "expressions" etc. it was a great idea to draw it out since I am very visual as well lol Thanks Guys I look forward to my next videos. I did get a little confused at the end when you threw in the last bit about 3+9=12 divide by 2.. i wasn't sure why you did that step?! Maybe just to show another step.

Thanks guys, by far the best breakdown of JavaScript on RU-vid.

Thank you, you two make a great team to learn from!

Great humor but very simplistic for us beginners. Thanks.

Wow, thank you so much!!! I used your method to explain JS to my kids and they totally got it. Wow, wow, thank you!!!

Thanks Guys this is the best beginner explanation I have found for Java script an d it has renewed my interest in trying to learn JavaScript. Dont listen to all of the folks that say its too simple.. Its supposed to be as you mentioned for Beginners!! Thanks again and I will be watching more of your videos for future explanations :) Thanks Guys your awesome

the best explaination, i actually understand it now, please keep making more video regarding coding

People are concerned about the name of video, but they forget to watch the awesome analogy that helps begginers to better learn

This is really interesting guys and enjoyable. I understood it all and no one is more surprised about that than me!! Do you know what would be really useful? If you took a common javascript (for example, something that's used on a lot of websites like image transitions or something commonly used) and broke it apart in to it's smallest components. So basically, starting from the top working down rather than from primitives upwards . . . . seeeeee, I'm learning the terminology (almost!). Nice work, keep it up.

Thank you guys for this awesome explanation of JS, its really helping me being a new to this whole programming world. I am not sure which video/s I should be watching next so it would be really helpful if you can number your current and future videos and recommend which videos to watch next. Please have these wonderful videos coming. Thank you again...!

Here on recommendation from IvanonTech , thanks for the great video Source Decoded ,the objects and bags analogy is perfect.

Really nice explanations of basics, the dot notation method never seemed to be so clear in my mind! Good enticement how to teach and learn basic programming!

So detailed , I wish I found this when i was learning for the first time

I just took a 8 week JavaScript class at my local college and it turned out to be so much more complicated than I imagine. Granted that it was my preconception going in that was the problem. I though it was just related to the browser so how difficult can that be? But it was so involved and so powerful so that’s what made it difficult. I did not expect such a huge range of functionalities.

having the basics put into simplicity is a great way of starting to understand JS on a higher level

I can't express to you may gratitude. Starting coding reminds me of starting martial arts. Its like everyone who is supposed to be helping you it only concerned in showing the world how much they know. I got my ass kicked harder trying to learn the basics of code then I did learning basic head movement. Thank you for setting the ego aside and putting the training wheels on! I might actually learn this shit now.

Oh my god! you are the best teacher I have ever seen... please keep making videos for us. Your class is very enjoyable... you are the boss.

Your videos are great and so easy to understand! Thanks guys!

great stuff ... don't stop the narrative - very very useful - thanQ

Very good job on the visual explanations you guys. Also keep up the switch of roles as leader it really helps to get another view of the problem at hand before the lecture gets too far and looses the viewers! I got alot from it.