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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

So, in this chapter, we have seen arrays and objects. Arrays are a list of values. These could be values of the same type, but also values of different types. Every element of the array gets an index. The index of the first element is 0. We can access the elements of the array using this index. We can also use this index to change and delete the element.

We then saw that it is also possible to have arrays containing other arrays; these are multidimensional arrays. To access the elements of a multidimensional array, you would need to use as many indices as you have nested arrays.

Then, we covered objects and learned that arrays are a special kind of object. Objects contain properties and methods. We looked at the properties of objects and saw that these properties are given a name and can be accessed and modified using this name.

We ended this module by looking at how arrays can contain objects, and how objects can contain arrays and more. This enables us to create...