JavaScript for Web Developers: Understanding the Basics

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M. SimonJavaScript for Web Developershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9774-2_2

2. Project: A Simple Guessing Game

Mark Simon¹  

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Ivanhoe, VIC, Australia

 

JavaScript can be used to write some pretty sophisticated games, but that’s not going to happen here. Instead, we’ll write a very simple guessing game. This will help us to develop skills in some of the important concepts in the JavaScript language.

In this chapter, we’ll learn about

• Writing a basic JavaScript

• Interacting with the user

• Basic JavaScript structures

• Functions

• Repetition with do ... while blocks

• Conditional coding with if ... then ... else blocks

• Refining the script

The point of this ...