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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

JavaScript Multiple Values

The basic data types have been dealt with in the previous chapter. Now it's time to look at a slightly more complicated topic: arrays and objects. In the previous chapter, you saw variables that held just a single value. To allow for more complex programming, objects and arrays can contain multiple values.

You can look at objects as a collection of properties and methods. Properties can be thought of as variables. They can be simple data structures such as numbers and strings, but also other objects. Methods perform actions; they contain a certain number of lines of code that will be executed when the method gets called. We'll explain methods in more detail later in this book and focus on properties for now. An example of an object can be a real-life object, for example, a dog. It has properties, such as name, weight, color, and breed.

We will also discuss arrays. An array is a type of object, which allows you to store multiple values....