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JavaScript

Posted by Jason Welsh
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Jason Welsh
Treehouse Project Reviewer

Why is the JavaScript and the DOM course not in the Front End Dev track?

Why is this course not in the front end track? I started taking it despite the fact that I am doing the front end track before I do full stack JS, and I am learning so much about using JS in the DOM and how it handles the front end. It seems odd that it would not be included. Is this not something a front end dev should know?

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Perhaps just because it's new.

It's probably not in the track right now because it was just recently released, and the track was already established for a while before. And bear in mind that while the tracks offer a logical progression of courses in a topic area, they may not cover everything someone working in the field should know.

But since I've been a student, I have seen tracks modified, so I know that happens occasionally. This track could be expanded to include this course at some future point.

Jason Welsh
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Jason Welsh
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Yeah, but it was added to the Full Stack JS track, where it had not previously been. Seems strange.