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JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, 2nd Edition
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JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, 2nd Edition

by Kirupa Chinnathambi
December 2019
Beginner
464 pages
10h 31m
English
Que

Overview

Who knew how simple using JavaScript could be?

Make the most of JavaScript--even if you've never programmed anything before. JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide is the fastest way to learn JavaScript and use it together with CSS3 and HTML5 to create powerful web and mobile experiences. Learn how to do what you want, the way you want, one incredibly easy step at a time. JavaScript has never been this simple!

Here's a small sample of what youll learn:

  • Organize your code with variables

  • Understand how functions make your code reusable

  • Use the popular if/else statement to help make a decision in code

  • Learn about switch statements and when to use them

  • Work with for, while, and do...while loops

  • Learn how to use global and local scope

  • Understand what closures are

  • Learn about the various places your code can live

  • Understand how to write comments and use good commenting practices

  • Learn about the basic types of objects youll run into in JavaScript

  • Find out that pizza has an educational value beyond just being deliciously awesome

  • Learn how to perform common string operations

  • Use arrays to handle lists of data

  • Learn to create custom objects

  • Get up to speed on some of the big ES6 changes

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ISBN: 9780136204213