Will Sentance

Codesmith

Will Sentance is the founder at Codesmith - a software engineering and machine learning tech residency with 5000+ graduates founding startups and working at organizations from OpenAI, Google, Kaiser Permanente and the UN. He is a Visiting Fellow working on AI at Oxford University, creator of the Hard Parts courses and of Icecomm, a developer platform for P2P video and data communication. Will graduated from Oxford University and Harvard University.

Workshops with Will Sentance

September 17 to 18, 2025 - 9:30am to 4:30pm Central Daylight Time

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JavaScript: The Hard Parts, v3

Will Sentance

Codesmith

Build a robust mental model of callbacks and higher order functions, closure, types & operators, asynchronous JavaScript and object-oriented JavaScript. Improve how you write code, debug more effectively and become the versatile problem-solving developer you aspire to be.

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March 11 to 12, 2026 - 9:30am to 4:30pm Central Daylight Time

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Hard Parts of Vibe Coding

Will Sentance

Codesmith

Build a deep under-the-hood understanding of AI-aided software engineering as an emerging paradigm of programming. Solve AI-enabled development problems via first-principles reasoning, not trial-and-error prompting, and be able to build modular, maintainable AI systems in production.

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What They're Saying

I just completed "JavaScript: The Hard Parts, v2" by Will Sentance on Frontend Masters! Will is such a insightful and funny guy, making this whole learning experience quite entertaining. Can recommend. 100%.

Markus August

sobergklyver

Excellent explanation of the ideas and concepts behind modern UI frameworks like React, simple and detailed and well-explained as usual from Will!

Emad Ashraf

This was the most transformative JavaScript course I’ve ever taken. Will’s teaching style made even the hardest concepts like closures, prototypes, and async feel deeply logical and clear. I finally understand how JS works under the hood. Thank you for this eye-opening journey!

Idrees Malikzai

Fantastic course, as always from the great Will Sentance! The course made some of the concepts in the field of AI less intimidating while building great mental models for understanding.

Samarth Joshi

I just finished "The Hard Parts of JavaScript OOP" by Will Sentance on Frontend Masters! I loved how Will tackled JavaScript object issues and offered diverse solutions until reaching the OOP approach, which just prototypes behind the scenes. Highly insightful! 🚀