Javascript Primer

Our concentrations are designed to give you a flavor of how AI techniques are being applied in the industry as well as a deep dive into one challenging problem in each domain. Most applications today are being deployed over the web, and for that purpose, Javascript is becoming a popular language for implementing intelligent solutions.

In the Computer Vision and Voice User Interfaces concentrations, your first project will require you to implement some code in Javascript. If you haven't used Javascript before, or need a refresher, you can go through this free course on Udacity, or use other online resources:

Introduction to Javascript

You don't need to master Javascript or front-end web development! You only need to implement small snippets of code and a few functions as per given instructions. For that, you'll need to be familiar with the syntax of Javascript (which is not too different from Java or C/C++), and some of the basic constructs (like if…else, for loops, arrays, functions, etc.).