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This course is part of Essential Frontend Developer Career Skills Specialization
Instructor: Dylan Israel
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Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of JavaScript. Try Scrimba's Learn JavaScript course here on Coursera.
Recommended experience
Intermediate level
Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of JavaScript. Try Scrimba's Learn JavaScript course here on Coursera.
Identify and apply best practices for clean, readable code.
Refactor code to enhance clarity, efficiency, and maintainability.
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Learning clean code is one of the best career investments you can make. By spending one hour to learn the fundamentals, you get to reap the benefits across all your future code bases. It's 10x the payoff for the effort.
In this course, developer and popular coding YouTuber Dylan Israel shares expert tips to help you elevate your code. You'll learn how to write cleaner, more professional code that's easy to read, understand, and maintain—while minimizing bugs along the way. Employers value the skill of writing clean code. Not only that, clean code practices will make it easier for you and your colleagues to understand your code in the future. This course will benefit a wide range of coders, including aspiring software engineers, juniors, seniors, and Quality Assurance Testers. It will also be helpful to those looking to better understand JavaScript. In just one hour, you’ll cover how to improve your variables, functions, comments, and more! By the end, you’ll have the knowledge to improve your existing and future projects and ensure that your code is as searchable, readable and understandable as possible.
Discover the basics of clean code in this one-hour intro.
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