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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

In this chapter we introduced the concept of loops. Loops enable us to repeat a certain block of code. We need some sort of condition when we loop, and as long as that condition is true, we'll keep looping. As soon as it changes to false, we end our loop.

We have seen the while loop, in which we just insert a condition, and as long as that condition is true we keep looping. If the condition is never true, we won't even execute the loop code once.

This is different for the do while loop. We always execute the code once, and then we start to check a condition. If this condition is true, we execute the code again and do so until the condition becomes false. This can be useful when working with input from outside, such as user input. We would need to request it once, and then we can keep on requesting it again until it is valid.

Then we saw the for loop, which has a slightly different syntax. We have to specify a variable, check a condition (preferably using...