Welcome to jQuery 101, jQuery for beginners.
Let's start with the big question.
Is jQuery still used?
And the answer is absolutely yes.
Jquery is responsible for the JavaScript on hundreds of millions of websites.
I'm going to repeat that.
Jquery is responsible for the JavaScript on hundreds of millions of websites.
Jquery was originally created to bridge a gap between
browsers before JavaScript started becoming more standardized,
Internet Explorer and Firefox use JavaScript differently.
Chrome and Safari implemented JavaScript differently.
And jQuery was how you could rate one language that just worked.
Look, I know lots of people say you should skip learning jQuery altogether,
but consider this if it's used by over
a 100 million websites and still favored by
organizations like Django and the jangle framework,
then there is clearly a market demand for this skill.
If you're getting into JavaScript recently,
this course is for you.
If you're a back-end developer and you want to write
nice JavaScript without needing to learn an entire framework like react,
this course is for you.
To get the most out of this course.
You will need to know a little bit of HTML.
And if you know a little CSS,
that's going to be helpful, but it's not required.
And to really make the most out of jQuery,
you should know some plain old just vanilla JavaScript.
Hi, I'm Caleb, tell me and I've been using jQuery since it was invented in 2006.
I've taught over 300 thousand students and worked with clients such as nasa,
Mozilla, the Arctic Research Foundation,
Samaritans, and the National Health Service in the UK.
And this is my jQuery 101 class.
Thanks for watching this introduction video,
and I'll see you inside.