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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

Now, let's wrap things up. In this chapter, we have covered conditional statements. We started with if else statements. Whenever the condition associated with the if is true, the if block gets executed. If the condition is false and there is an else block present, that will be executed. We have also seen ternary operators and the funky syntax they bring to the table. It is a short way of writing an if-else statement if you only need one statement per block.

And lastly, we have seen switch statements and how they can be used to optimize our conditional code. With the switch statement, we can compare one condition with many different cases. When they are equal (value and type), the code associated with the case gets executed.

In the next chapter, we are going to add loops to the mix! This is going to help us write more efficient code and algorithms.

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