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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

Chapter projects

Employee tracking app

Create a class to track the employees of a company:

  1. Use first names, last names, and the number of years worked as values in the constructor.
  2. Create two or more people with values for their first names, last names, and the number of years they've worked at the company. Add the people into an array.
  3. Set up a prototype to return the details of the person's first and last names and how long they've worked at the company.
  4. Iterate the contents of the array to output the results into the console, adding some text to make the output a full sentence.

Menu items price calculator

Create a class which will allow you to work out the combined price of a number of items, and interact with it to work out the total cost of different orders.

  1. Create a class that contains the prices of two menu items as private field declarations.
  2. Use the constructor in the class to get the argument values...