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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

By : Laurence Lars Svekis, Maaike van Putten, Codestars By Rob Percival
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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

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By: Laurence Lars Svekis, Maaike van Putten, Codestars By Rob Percival

Overview of this book

This book demonstrates the capabilities of JavaScript for web application development by combining theoretical learning with code exercises and fun projects that you can challenge yourself with. The guiding principle of the book is to show how straightforward JavaScript techniques can be used to make web apps ranging from dynamic websites to simple browser-based games. JavaScript from Beginner to Professional focuses on key programming concepts and Document Object Model manipulations that are used to solve common problems in professional web applications. These include data validation, manipulating the appearance of web pages, working with asynchronous and concurrent code. The book uses project-based learning to provide context for the theoretical components in a series of code examples that can be used as modules of an application, such as input validators, games, and simple animations. This will be supplemented with a brief crash course on HTML and CSS to illustrate how JavaScript components fit into a complete web application. As you learn the concepts, you can try them in your own editor or browser console to get a solid understanding of how they work and what they do. By the end of this JavaScript book, you will feel confident writing core JavaScript code and be equipped to progress to more advanced libraries, frameworks, and environments such as React, Angular, and Node.js.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index

Logic Statements

Up to this point, our code has been rather static. It will do the same thing every time we execute it. In this chapter, that is all going to change. We will be dealing with logical statements. Logical statements allow us to make multiple paths in our code. Depending on the outcome of a certain expression, we will follow one code path or another.

There are different logic statements, and we will go over them in this chapter. We will start with if and if else statements. After that, we will be dealing with the ternary operator, and the final one we will be dealing with is the switch statement.

Along the way, we will cover the following topics:

  • if and if else statements
  • else if statements
  • Conditional ternary operators
  • switch statements

    Note: exercise, project and self-check quiz answers can be found in the Appendix.