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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

Summary

Nicely done! You have made a start with JavaScript! In this chapter, we have discussed a lot of context, which you will need to know before starting to code JavaScript. We saw that we can use JavaScript for many purposes, and one of the most popular use cases is the web. Browsers can work with JavaScript because they have a special part, called an interpreter, that can process JavaScript. We saw that we have multiple options for writing JavaScript on our computer. We will need an IDE, a program that we can use to write and run our code.

Adding JavaScript to a web page can be done in several ways. We saw how to include it in the script element and how to add a separate JavaScript file to a page. We ended this chapter with some important general notes on how to write well-structured, readable, and easy-to-maintain code that is well documented with comments. We also saw that we can write to the console with our console.log() method and ask for user input using prompt(). Lastly, we also saw that we can generate random numbers with the Math.random() function.

Next, we'll look at JavaScript's basic data types and the operators that can be used to manipulate them!

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