Finally, the course’s 2020 vintage offers a subtle lesson in engineering fundamentals. While newer courses cover frameworks like React or Vue immediately, Schmedtmann’s 2020 curriculum forces the student to build projects using vanilla JavaScript, modular patterns, and even the older var keyword in historical context. This is not a flaw but a feature. By understanding how to manipulate the DOM without a framework, or how to structure code using ES6 modules, a student gains the foundational literacy to learn any framework later. The specific lessons of 2020 provide the roots; the student provides the branches.
The fundamental building blocks of the language.
