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Web Developer's Reference Guide

By : Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea
Book Image

Web Developer's Reference Guide

By: Joshua Johanan, Talha Khan, Ricardo Zea

Overview of this book

This comprehensive reference guide takes you through each topic in web development and highlights the most popular and important elements of each area. Starting with HTML, you will learn key elements and attributes and how they relate to each other. Next, you will explore CSS pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, followed by CSS properties and functions. This will introduce you to many powerful and new selectors. You will then move on to JavaScript. This section will not just introduce functions, but will provide you with an entire reference for the language and paradigms. You will discover more about three of the most popular frameworks today—Bootstrap, which builds on CSS, jQuery which builds on JavaScript, and AngularJS, which also builds on JavaScript. Finally, you will take a walk-through Node.js, which is a server-side framework that allows you to write programs in JavaScript.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Web Developer's Reference Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
JavaScript Expressions, Operators, Statements, and Arrays
Index

Operators


In programming languages, operators are operations to be performed on operands. Basically, operators are symbols used to perform various operations. Consider the following example:

9 + 11 = 20

In the preceding example, 9 and 11 are operands and + is the additional operator.

Overview

Like other languages, in JavaScript, there are several operators to perform an operation, such as addition, multiplication, subtraction, and so on.

In JavaScript, there are different operators such as:

  • The logical operator

  • The bitwise operator

  • The conditional operator

  • The arithmetic operator

  • The assignment operator

Binary operator

As the name suggests, binary operators require two operands; for example:

A + B

Here, A and B are operands and + is the operator to perform addition between them.

Unary operator

In programming languages, unary operators have just one operand and operator with them, for example:

A++;

This can also be written as:

++A;

Note

A++ is a post increment operator. It will first evaluate A and then increment...