E16 | A Conversation about Javascript | Dan Cortes

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In this episode I’ll be chatting all about Javascript with my guest Daniel Cortes, a self taught developer who’s been working on web projects for the last 8 years. Daniel is currently a lead front end developer at Albert, an ed tech company.

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Questions Asked

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• Tell us about your background.
  
• What attracted you to Javascript?
  
• What do you like the most from Javascript?
  
• What would you like to see change in Javascript?
  
• Is there a standard way of coding in Javascript?
  
• What's the difference between vanilla Javascript and a Javascript Framework?
  
• Can you learn Javascript Frameworks without understanding fully vanilla Javascript?
  
• Is Javascript synchronous or asynchronous?
  
• What is the "await" keyword?
  
• What's the difference between prototypes and ES6 Classes?
  
• What are arrow functions?
  
• How's the "this" keyword treated with arrow functions?
  
• What are promises in Javascript?
  
• What is a use case for a promise?
  
• What are callbacks?
  
• Tell us about the spread operator in Javascript.
  
• What are symbols in Javascript?
  
• What are primitives?
  
• What are classes and objects?
  
• What are generator functions?
  
• What are proxies?
  
• What are Javascript modules?
  
• What are Javascript closures?
  
• What would you like to see in Javascript in the future?
  

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Reference Links

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• Dan’s Website (https://dancortes.dev/)
  
• Dan’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/dan_cortes_)