1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:05,190 Now that we finished up our first application, I want to give you a quick overview on how this course 2 00:00:05,190 --> 00:00:05,790 is structured. 3 00:00:06,210 --> 00:00:09,900 Now, as soon as I say that you might be looking for the skip button and trying to skip over to the 4 00:00:09,900 --> 00:00:12,870 next video, but I beg you, please stick around. 5 00:00:12,870 --> 00:00:13,760 Just watch this video. 6 00:00:13,770 --> 00:00:15,720 I'm going to make it as short as I possibly can. 7 00:00:16,050 --> 00:00:20,370 It's really important you watch this video because it's going to really frame how you approach and learn, 8 00:00:20,370 --> 00:00:20,910 TypeScript. 9 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,020 So let me just dive right in so I don't waste any time. 10 00:00:25,050 --> 00:00:29,130 All right, so when we think about learning the typescript language, there's really two distinct categories 11 00:00:29,130 --> 00:00:30,180 of knowledge that we need. 12 00:00:30,750 --> 00:00:34,360 On the one hand, we need to understand the syntax and features of the language. 13 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:39,450 So, for example, we need to understand what an interface is, you know, where do we use interface? 14 00:00:39,450 --> 00:00:40,200 How do we use it? 15 00:00:40,770 --> 00:00:44,310 And we also need to understand the syntax for defining an interface as well. 16 00:00:45,350 --> 00:00:49,790 So that's kind of like one category of knowledge, so we have to pick up the other category of knowledge 17 00:00:49,790 --> 00:00:52,700 we have to pick up is design patterns using typescript. 18 00:00:53,220 --> 00:00:55,690 So it's not enough to just know what an interface is. 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,350 I want you to understand how to use an interface to actually write some amount of reusable code. 20 00:01:02,150 --> 00:01:03,920 This is the big focus of this course. 21 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,770 This is what I really want to focus the entire course on. 22 00:01:06,950 --> 00:01:08,990 I want you to understand design patterns. 23 00:01:09,710 --> 00:01:13,970 At the end of the day, the official documentation is actually pretty strong for TypeScript. 24 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:19,270 And you could understand some basic syntax and features pretty darn well by reading that documentation. 25 00:01:19,970 --> 00:01:23,120 So because of that, that's why I want to focus on design patterns. 26 00:01:23,780 --> 00:01:24,950 So why am I telling you this? 27 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:26,570 Well, to be honest. 28 00:01:27,660 --> 00:01:32,630 Of course, you're watching right now, I've been working on for about six weeks, like six weeks of 29 00:01:32,630 --> 00:01:39,470 full time work, I've been working on this course and I've recorded about a total of 20 hours of content 30 00:01:39,470 --> 00:01:44,450 for this course up to this point, like in the last six weeks, and I've thrown it all away. 31 00:01:44,910 --> 00:01:45,620 Why is that? 32 00:01:46,250 --> 00:01:50,990 Well, I tried to initially design this course to focus 100 percent on design patterns and just pick 33 00:01:50,990 --> 00:01:52,940 up some syntax and features along the way. 34 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:59,390 It turns out after all these six weeks of time working on this, it just doesn't work to pick up typescript 35 00:01:59,390 --> 00:02:00,070 in that fashion. 36 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:05,660 Honestly, the most effective way to pick up TypeScript correctly or very quickly is to first focus 37 00:02:05,660 --> 00:02:11,780 on the syntax and features with some kind of like dry, boring lectures and then start to focus on the 38 00:02:11,780 --> 00:02:12,700 design patterns. 39 00:02:13,430 --> 00:02:14,450 So here's what we're going to do. 40 00:02:14,450 --> 00:02:19,790 We're going to focus on the basic syntax and features and then start to move on to some projects where 41 00:02:19,790 --> 00:02:22,070 we're going to focus on understanding design patterns. 42 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,870 And the reason I'm showing you this, I'm telling you all this stuff, is that in the coming videos, 43 00:02:26,870 --> 00:02:32,090 as we start to focus on syntax and features, some of them are going to be honestly kind of boring. 44 00:02:32,410 --> 00:02:34,100 You're going to make it as interesting as I can. 45 00:02:34,250 --> 00:02:38,930 But when we are just talking about plain syntax, we have to work with like tiny little toy examples 46 00:02:39,110 --> 00:02:41,690 that just don't reflect the real world a lot of the time. 47 00:02:42,620 --> 00:02:48,200 So I would love to skip over the stuff, I would love to just ignore syntax and features, but we have 48 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:49,600 to do it just unequivocally. 49 00:02:49,730 --> 00:02:51,580 You have to understand the syntax. 50 00:02:52,130 --> 00:02:56,600 So we're going to blaze through the stuff as quickly as we can, and we're going to move on to the design 51 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:01,190 patterns where we're going to be working on a bunch of projects that will really show you how to leverage 52 00:03:01,190 --> 00:03:03,170 TypeScript to write reusable code. 53 00:03:04,220 --> 00:03:08,360 All right, so having said all that, as we're going through these early sections around syntax and 54 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:13,340 whatnot, if you're getting bored, totally fine, just skip ahead and go take a look at some of the 55 00:03:13,340 --> 00:03:13,940 projects. 56 00:03:14,370 --> 00:03:18,650 If you start working on a project and you realize, oh, my gosh, I've got no idea what's going on 57 00:03:18,650 --> 00:03:23,610 here, you can always go back and take a look at the lectures on features and syntax and whatnot. 58 00:03:24,470 --> 00:03:26,750 OK, so thank you for sticking around if you did. 59 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:28,040 Let's take a pause right now. 60 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:32,420 When we come back in the next video, we're going to dive into our first kind of features and syntax 61 00:03:32,450 --> 00:03:33,560 style lecture. 62 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:34,970 So I'll see you in just a minute.