The title of this post comes from a lyric in “The Scientist” by the band Coldplay. It seemed to best sum up my quest to refresh my perspective on JavaScript by completing a course on Pluralsight called Basics of Programming with JavaScript by Kyle Simpson. I wanted to find out after many years of programming in the language if I had the basics right. The course was very good in both introducing JavaScript but also the concepts of programming itself.
Here is a little breakdown of the concepts that stayed with me following the course (besides calling it JavaScript instead of Javascript after noticing the title and a little Web search. Although, like a number of things to do with the actual language, it’s really not a big concern which one you use).