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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

Operators

After seeing quite a few data types and some ways to convert them, it is time for the next major building block: operators. These come in handy whenever we want to work with the variables, modify them, perform calculations on them, and compare them. They are called operators because we use them to operate on our variables.

Arithmetic operators

Arithmetic operators can be used to perform operations with numbers. Most of these operations will feel very natural to you because they are the basic mathematics you will have come across earlier in life already.

Addition

Addition in JavaScript is very simple, we have seen it already. We use + for this operation:

let nr1 = 12;
let nr2 = 14;
let result1 = nr1 + nr2;

However, this operator can also come in very handy for concatenating strings. Note the added space after "Hello" to ensure the end result contains space characters:

let str1 = "Hello ";
let str2 = "addition";
let...