Programming with JavaScript: Algorithms and Applications for Desktop and Mobile Browsers

CHAPTER 10

Advanced Topics

CHAPTER CONTENTS

10.1  Regular Expressions

10.1.1  Introducing Regular

10.1.2  Capture

10.1.3  Quantifiers

10.1.4  Backreferences

10.1.5  Regex Modifiers

10.1.6  The RegExp Constructor

10.1.7  More on Regular Expressions

10.2  Recursion

10.2.1  What Is Recursion?

10.2.2  Classic Examples of Recursion

10.2.3  Recursion and Family Trees

10.2.4  When Not to Use Recursion

10.3  Caching

10.4  MapReduce

10.4.1  Using map, filter, and reduce

10.4.2  Implementation

10.4.3  MapReduce in Large-Scale Data Processing

10.5  Dynamically Creating Event Handlers

Chapter Summary

Exercises

Introduction

For this last chapter we present a collection of interesting and important topics in programming that we’ve not yet come across. Each ...