"This is a basic intro to MDN and the concept of documentation.",
"MDN, Mozilla Developer Network, is a fanastic open source collaboration that documents not only JavaScript, but many other langauges and topics. If you haven't heard of them, you should check them out now. I get lots of information from developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript",
"When I say documentation, I am talking about information that is provided about the product to its users. The documentation at MDN isn't necessarily written by the people behind JS. Brendan Eich created JS in 1995, but it's now a community driven project that continues to grow.",
"As you continue to learn javascript, jQuery, and pretty much any languages or services for development or programming, documentation is your friend. ",
"The faster you get comfortable reading and refrencing documentation, the faster you will grow as a developer.",
"These videos aren't going to teach you javascript - you will be introduced to terms and concepts that will be valuable as you continue to practice and learn."
"Learn about the three most basic types of values: booleans, strings, and numbers.",
"A boolean is a true or false value. These words are special and reserved. You can't name a variable 'true', because that word is already universal as a boolean (as is 'false').",
"A string is a set of characters that is set between either single (') or double (\") quotation marks. This string can be named 'true', as long as it's between those quotation marks.",
"Numbers are pretty self-explanatory - a number is a value that consists only of digits, though it can also contain a decimal or a negative sign."
"We are going to cover what constitutes a variable, and the reasoning behind camelCase.",
"A variable, also referred to as 'var', is the name or placeholder for a boolean, string, number, or other piece of static information.",
"You can use google dev tools to inspect the Free Code Camp home page and look for some variables.",
"You 'declare' variables the first time with 'var' in front of it, but those can be referenced later in your script.",
"camelCase is the way that JavaScript pushes words together and still keeps them legible. The first letter of the first word is lowercase, along with the remainder of the word, but the first letter of every consecutive word is capitalized. There are no spaces. Examples: brianaLovesHerPets, bestFoodIsCheese, and codeIsWorthLearning.",
"When you name variables, utilize camelCase. Also try to keep the names descriptive and short so that others (and yourself!) can tell what that variable is referring to just by the name."
"If you want to store more than one piece of information to a variable, you can do so by creating an array or an object.",
"**Disclaimer: Objects in JS are not exactly the same as objects in other languages. We will discuss objects here as they pertain to JS.",
"Arrays are sets of data between [square, brackets]. Data is separated by commas. That data can be in the form of a boolean, string, number, or even another array. We call that a nested array.",
"Objects are a type of data that can look or behave similar to an array in the way that it's more data stored in one variable in an organized way. You'll hear it referred to as JSON, and when you make API calls to other sites (getting information to display on your own page) it will frequently be returned in JSON.",
"An example of object notation is: var obj = {'name' : 'Briana', 'food' : 'cheese', 'dog' : 'Maurice'};",
"Notice the curly brackets, the 'keys' with values like name or food,, and the value called a 'property' that is tied to the 'key', like Briana or cheese. These are ALL stored as strings, although booleans, numbers, and other types of data are also valid."
"Objects in JS are slightly different, but as long as you understand the context for JS, you'll be fine until you decide to learn one of those other languages."
"There are many reasons you might need to access a certain piece of data from within a larger set, and you do that by referencing it's index.",
"We won't get into syntax now, but you should know that the first thing in an array is actually index 0.",
"This goes for strings and objects, too. All of these indices start at 0, so if you're looking asking the code to find indexArr[2], you're really going to get the third piece of information in that array."
"Methods and functions are ways you can manipulate variables or other sets of information.",
"Methods are built in to JavaScript, and you will become more familliar with these as you write functions for the bonfires.",
"I'd suggest looking through the MDN (Mozilla Developer Network that we discussed in the first video) to familliarize yourself with the sheer amount and general potential for the methods that exist. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Methods_Index",
"Examples include '.split(' ')', which will turn a string into an array and can do so in many different ways. Methods are powerful - many times when you want your script to do something, there's a method for that.",
"Functions, like variables, are something you define and create.",
"During your algorithm practice at Free Code Camp, you will create functions that take a certain piece of information and manipulate it in whatever way you choose.",
"You'll become more familliar with syntax there, but for now, just remember that with methods and functions you can do almost anything with your code."
"There is a static object named 'Math' in JS with many built in properties and methods.",
"You'll want to investigate this further whenever you're manipulating numbers. Check MDN documentation before writing your own functions, because they may already be defined there.",
"Examples include Math.random() which will return a random number in a given range and Math.round() which will round the input to the nearest integer.",
"I used Math.random() when I built the random quote generator for the Free Code Camp front end development project.",
"When you're working with numbers, you should also be aware that JS has an interesting attribute called 'floating-point format'.",
"Depending on the amount of numbers, the size of those numbers, and the number of computations, JS may return something that is inaccurate by .00004.",
"There are ways around this, and in general it doesn't pose issues, but it's something you should be aware of in the event you run into some problems that aren't making sense."
"If there's a set of data, (we'll use an array for this example, but it doesn't have to be,) and you want to perform the same manipulation to every piece in that set of data, you can use something called a loop.",
"Loops have some complex syntax to get used to at first, but once you have it, they're extremely useful. I used loops in many of my algorithm solutions.",
"You don't need to understand everything here - just know that loops exist when you need to traverse a set of data and they can cut down on the amount of code you need to write."
