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In my head, I kept getting back to texts that inspired me as a child and then as a teen. Alice in Wonderland, Little Prince, GEB, scriptures from different religions, popular science books and math puzzle journal columns. Quirky Systems. What is JS if not another one of those?

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So here we are. The first version of the course is out, several years after we first started discussing it with

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. This is an exciting milestone. It doesn’t *feel* like a lot, and yet it took so much work from the whole team. Huge thanks to all:

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Just JavaScript will help you develop a rock-solid understanding of how JavaScript works through intuitive visual explanations and learning challenges.

If the project receives enough support, we hope to work more on it. There are two primary ways the scope of Just JavaScript could be expanded. One is to write more content on the many topics we haven’t covered yet. But there is also another dimension I want to explore.

One experiment I am exploring is to make the sketching experience itself more interactive — like sitting down with an experienced mentor. What if you could make mistakes, see their consequences, and then correct them?

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Here’s another experiment, where you have less “creative freedom” but more insight into how the system works. This is animation on steroids. You *are* the system.

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I don’t know what the right approach is yet. I only know there is some medium at the intersection of text, animations, sketching, and direct interaction, that works better than either of those four in isolation. I will dig more into research, find it, and bring it into JJS vNext.