Reasoning About Asynchronous Javascript

This course will help you learn to take advantage of JavaScript's single-threaded nature, as opposed to being caught off guard by it. You'll walk away being able to effortlessly reason about when things execute in JavaScript.

When it comes to writing asynchronous code in JavaScript, callbacks can be a hassle. In this course, you'll see alternatives to callbacks, including ES6 promises, and how to combine generators with promises to write async code in a synchronous style.

Get comfortable with the latest evolutions of the JavaScript language and new ES6 features.

Praised by the American Journal of Physics as "an outstanding and ambitious textbook for nonscience majors," this book introduces the uses of probability and statistics in the physical sciences, focusing on thermal and statistical physics.

Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread with surprising speed and intensity.