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Object-Oriented JavaScript

Object-Oriented JavaScript

By : Stoyan STEFANOV
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Object-Oriented JavaScript

Object-Oriented JavaScript

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By: Stoyan STEFANOV
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Overview of this book

The book requires no prior knowledge of JavaScript and works from the ground up to give you a thorough grounding in this powerful language. If you do already know some JavaScript, you will find plenty of eye-openers as you discover just what the language can do. This book takes a do-it-yourself approach when it comes to writing code, because the best way to really learn a programming language is by writing code. You are encouraged to type code into Firebug's console, see how it works and then tweak it and play around with it. There are practice questions at the end of each chapter to help review what you have learned.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Object-Oriented JavaScript
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Object-Oriented JavaScript
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
Preface
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Preface
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Introduction
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Introduction
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A Bit of History
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The Winds of Change
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The Present
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The Future
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Object-Oriented Programming
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OOP Summary
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Setting up Your Training Environment
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Using the Firebug Console
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Summary
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Primitive Data Types, Arrays, Loops, and Conditions
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Primitive Data Types, Arrays, Loops, and Conditions
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Variables
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Operators
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Primitive Data Types
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Primitive Data Types Recap
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Arrays
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Conditions and Loops
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Comments
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Summary
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Exercises
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Functions
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Functions
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What is a Function?
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Pre-defined Functions
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Scope of Variables
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Functions are Data
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Closures
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Exercises
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Objects
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Objects
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From Arrays to Objects
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Built-in Objects
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Exercises
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Prototype
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Prototype
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The prototype Property
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Augmenting Built-in Objects
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Exercises
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Inheritance
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Inheritance
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Prototype Chaining
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Inheriting the Prototype Only
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Uber—Access to the Parent from a Child Object
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Isolating the Inheritance Part into a Function
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Copying Properties
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Heads-up When Copying by Reference
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Objects Inherit from Objects
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Deep Copy
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object()
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Using a Mix of Prototypal Inheritance and Copying Properties
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Multiple Inheritance
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Parasitic Inheritance
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Borrowing a Constructor
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Summary
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Case Study: Drawing Shapes
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Exercises
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The Browser Environment
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The Browser Environment
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Including JavaScript in an HTML Page
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BOM and DOM—An Overview
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BOM
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DOM
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Events
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XMLHttpRequest
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Exercises
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Coding and Design Patterns
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Coding and Design Patterns
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Coding Patterns
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Design Patterns
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Reserved Words
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Reserved Words
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Keywords
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Future Reserved Words
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Built-in Functions
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Built-in Functions
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Built-in Objects
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Built-in Objects
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Object
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Array
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Function
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Boolean
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Number
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String
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Date
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Math
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RegExp
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Error Objects
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Regular Expressions
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Regular Expressions
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Index
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Index

Chapter 3. Functions

Mastering functions is an important skill when you learn any programming language and even more so when it comes to JavaScript. This is because JavaScript has many uses for functions, and much of the language's flexibility and expressiveness comes from them. Where most programming languages have a special syntax for some object-oriented features, JavaScript just uses functions. This chapter will cover:

  • How to define and use a function

  • Passing parameters to a function

  • Pre-defined functions that are available to you "for free"

  • The scope of variables in JavaScript

  • The concept that functions are just data, albeit a special type of data

Understanding these topics will provide a solid base that will allow you to dive into the second part of the chapter, which shows some interesting applications of functions:

  • Using anonymous functions

  • Callbacks

  • Self-invoking functions

  • Inner functions (functions defined inside functions)

  • Functions that return functions

  • Functions that redefine themselves...

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