Hour 5. Data Processing with Numbers and Words

Without an in-depth knowledge of characters, strings, and numbers, you won’t be able to understand any programming language. This doesn’t mean that you must be a math whiz or an English major. You must, however, understand how languages such as JavaScript represent and work with such data.

In this hour, you will learn more about how JavaScript performs its mathematical calculations. In addition, you will learn how JavaScript represents and works with strings. Along the way, you will discover functions and powerful built-in routines that perform many of the programming chores for you.

The highlights of this hour include

Merging strings together

Understanding internal representation of strings

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