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Discussion on: What do you wish to know about JavaScript when you were in university?

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

Hi, I am a university student and here are some of the things that a lot of people in my college don't know about :

  • a lot of people don't know what ES6 is or in general what javascript versions are and how javascript has changed over the past.

  • Some of my classmates are too confused about React vs Angular vs Vue and they just try to rank them (XYZ is the best framework etc) so maybe you can tell the advantages and disadvantages of every framework and their use cases.

  • You can tell them about the local javascript communities, conferences, and meetups and maybe encourage them to join these communities if they are interested in javascript

  • Also, you can encourage them to join dev.to, GitHub and other websites like this.

Good luck with your talk!

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Natalia

Hmmm, do you think I should talk about the latest changes in JS version or talk about the most interesting changes that happened?

You can tell them about the local javascript communities, conferences, and meetups
This is really great point! Thank you! :D

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

I guess the interesting one's! It's fine if they don't know flatmap or even async await etc but maybe just go for things that they'll understand easily.

Like you can show them how difficult it was to do xmlHttpRequest but fetch just made things easier.
Same with prototyping vs es6 classes.
Also, people from my class have no idea what "asynchronous" is so you probably would have to start from explaining how javascript works different from python or other general languages and then if you have time left, you can talk about promises and then maybe give a short intro to async await.

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Natalia

Like you can show them how difficult it was to do xmlHttpRequest but fetch just made things easier.

That's really great thing to do :D Thank you :D

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

Glad it helped! good luck with your talk :D !