📘 JavaScript to React Mastery: 24-Hour
Learning Checklist
### ✅ Session 1 (Hours 1–6): Foundations
Hour 1: Basic Syntax and Variables
- [ ] Understand `var`, `let`, `const`
- [ ] Data types (`string`, `number`, `boolean`, `null`, `undefined`, `object`, `array`)
- [ ] Input/output: `[Link]`, `alert`, `prompt`
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Hour 2: Operators and Conditionals
- [ ] Arithmetic, assignment, comparison, logical operators
- [ ] `if`, `else`, `else if`, `switch`
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Hour 3: Loops
- [ ] `for`, `while`, `do...while`
- [ ] `for...of`, `forEach`
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Hour 4: Functions
- [ ] Function declarations and expressions
- [ ] Parameters vs arguments
- [ ] Return values and scope
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Hour 5: Arrow Functions & Template Literals
- [ ] Arrow functions (`=>`)
- [ ] Default parameters
- [ ] Template literals (``)
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Hour 6: Practice Problems
- [ ] FizzBuzz
- [ ] Palindrome checker
- [ ] Mini challenges
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### ✅ Session 2 (Hours 7–12): Data Structures & ES6
Hour 7: Arrays
- [ ] Basic methods: `push`, `pop`, `shift`, `unshift`
- [ ] Indexing, looping over arrays
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Hour 8: Array Methods
- [ ] `map`, `filter`, `reduce`, `find`, `some`, `every`
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Hour 9: Objects
- [ ] Creating and accessing properties
- [ ] Nesting, updating, deleting properties
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Hour 10: Destructuring & Spread/Rest
- [ ] Array/Object destructuring
- [ ] Spread (`...`) and rest operator
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Hour 11: ES6 Features
- [ ] Ternary operator
- [ ] Optional chaining (`?.`)
- [ ] Nullish coalescing (`??`)
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Hour 12: Practice Array/Object Challenges
- [ ] Solve 3+ problems involving nested data
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### ✅ Session 3 (Hours 13–18): Functions, Scope, OOP
Hour 13: Higher-Order Functions & Callbacks
- [ ] Function as argument/return value
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Hour 14: Scope, Closures, Hoisting
- [ ] Scope types
- [ ] Closures
- [ ] Hoisting
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Hour 15: JavaScript OOP
- [ ] Constructor functions
- [ ] Classes and inheritance
- [ ] The `this` keyword
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Hour 16: DOM Basics
- [ ] DOM selectors (`getElementById`, `querySelector`)
- [ ] Event handling (`addEventListener`)
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Hour 17: Mini DOM Project
- [ ] Build a to-do list or similar app
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Hour 18: Practice
- [ ] Apply objects, functions, and DOM manipulation together
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### ✅ Session 4 (Hours 19–24): Async JavaScript & Prep for React
Hour 19: Timing Functions
- [ ] `setTimeout`, `setInterval`
- [ ] Callback hell understanding
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Hour 20: Promises
- [ ] Creating and resolving promises
- [ ] `.then()` chaining
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Hour 21: Async/Await
- [ ] Writing `async` functions
- [ ] `try/catch` error handling
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Hour 22: Fetch API
- [ ] Fetching data (GET/POST)
- [ ] Displaying response data
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Hour 23: JavaScript Modules
- [ ] `import`, `export`
- [ ] Organizing code into modules
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Hour 24: Final Mini Project
- [ ] Use async + DOM to build app (e.g., user fetcher)
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🎯 After This:
You're ready to begin your React journey. Keep this checklist as a reference and resume it
anytime you need a JS refresh!