Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 28 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Ray Viljoen
Rating
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Course Overview
A complete guide for learning the WebAssembly JavaScript API and Emscripten toolset.
*** UPDATED FOR EMSCRIPTEN v2.0 ***
Learn to create and use WebAssembly Modules from scratch using Emscripten.
Bring your skills up to date with the very latest technology in Web Development.
This course is suitable for both beginners and experienced developers looking to get started with WebAssembly.
Understand what WebAssembly is and how it speeds up the web
Use native JavaScript APIs to load and run WebAssembly modules
Learn to use Emscripten and compile your own C or C++ code as a WebAssembly module
Use WebAssembly in a real-world project and micro benchmark
An invaluable skill for any developer looking to future-proof their skills
WebAssembly is the most promising new technology for the web, allowing browsers, and other JavaScript environments, to run blazing-fast raw binary modules, compiled directly from C, C++ and many other languages.
Understanding WebAssembly is an invaluable skill for anyone working with JavaScript or compiled languages, allowing you to bridge the gap between native software development and web-based JavaScript.
This course will provide a very practical and concise approach to learning WebAssembly & Emscripten, and will give you a solid base to immediately start creating and implementing fast, optimised WebAssembly modules.
Content and Overview
This course aims to teach a solid foundational understanding of what WebAssembly is, and why it's so powerful.
Section one starts with an overview of WebAssembly and a detailed setup lesson to help you follow along every step of the way.
Section two covers the native JavaScript browser API for loading and running WebAssembly modules. This section also includes importing and exporting functions to and from a WebAssembly module, and shows how to access WebAssembly memory.
The third and most substantial part of the course, covers Emscripten in-depth. Teaching everything from installing Emscripten on either Mac, Windows or Linux, compiling C code from scratch and the general Module runtime cycle.
This Emscripten section also teaches some more advanced features of Emscripten, including calling JavaScript from a WebAssembly module and vice-versa.
The final section of the course is a practical 4-part lesson, teaching how to implement a fully animated HTML5 Canvas project using WebAssembly as the main processor.
Upon completion of this course you will have the practical skills to immediately start creating high performance WebAssembly modules.
This course is to the point and everything is demonstrated in the most simple, yet practical ways.
Course Content
- 5 section(s)
- 23 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Overview
- Section 2 WebAssembly Browser API
- Section 3 Getting Started with Emscripten
- Section 4 Practical WebAssembly
- Section 5 Outro
What You’ll Learn
- Understand what WebAssembly is and how it will impact Web Development
- Learn to load and run WebAssembly modules, using native JavaScript browser APIs
- Compile C and C++ code using Emscripten
- Advanced Emscripten features such as calling JS from WA and vice-versa
Reviews
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PPaulo Duarte
Good introduction for Emscripten and WASM. Didn't give 5 stars as the course is a bit outdated and some examples won't work as expected.
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MMichael David Webb
Easy to understand. Easy to follow.
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MMarcelo Aguilera
Great
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EEvaldas Naujanis
Nice course. Great intro to WASM. Well for me at least. However it's first part is outdated. And probably that's a blocker for a lot of new people, who are just starting to know WASM. And it is sad, because I think those 3rd part wasm compilation tools aren't really needed. Course should be reorganised. Just give the wasm files in resources, and update flow accordingly, remove dependency from those 3rd party tools. Some wasm files can be found in later lessons resources. So there is a workaround to this problem if you don't follow it step by step... But people pay money for this - it is unfair to sell them a broken thing.
