JavaScript Absolute Beginner’s Guide
- Length: 416 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Que Publishing
- Publication Date: 2016-07-18
- ISBN-10: 0789758067
- ISBN-13: 9780789758064
- Sales Rank: #356979 (See Top 100 Books)
JavaScript Absolute Beginner’s Guide
No experience necessary!
Make the most of JavaScript — even if you’ve never programmed anything before. This book 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!
This is the easiest, most practical beginner’s guide to programming JavaScript with simple, reliable instructions for doing everything you really want to do! Here’s a small sample of what you’ll learn:
- Learn why JavaScript is awesome
- 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 good commenting practices
- Learn about the basic types of objects you’ll run into in JavaScript
- Find out that pizza has an educational value beyond just being deliciously awesome
- Understand how text is treated in JavaScript
- Learn how to perform common string operations
- Use arrays to handle lists of data
- Learn to create custom objects
Purchase of JavaScript Absolute Beginner’s Guide in any format includes free access to the online Web Edition, which provides several special features to help you learn:
- The complete text of the book online
- Short videos by the author introducing each chapter
- Interactive quizzes to test your understanding of the material
- Updates and corrections as they become available
This Web Edition can be viewed on all types of computers and mobile devices with any modern web browser that supports HTML5.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Hello, World!
Part I: The Basic Stuff
Chapter 2 Values and Variables
Chapter 3 Functions
Chapter 4 Conditional Statements: If, Else, and Switch
Chapter 5 Meet the Loops: For, While, and Do…While!
Chapter 6 Timers
Chapter 7 Variable Scope
Chapter 8 Closures
Chapter 9 Where Should Your Code Live?
Chapter 10 Commenting Your Code
Part II: It’s an Object-Oriented World
Chapter 11 Of Pizza, Types, Primitives, and Objects
Chapter 12 Strings
Chapter 13 When Primitives Behave Like Objects
Chapter 14 Arrays
Chapter 15 Numbers
Chapter 16 A Deeper Look at Objects
Chapter 17 Extending Built-in Objects
Chapter 18 Booleans and the Stricter === and !== Operators
Chapter 19 Null and Undefined
Chapter 20 Immediately Invoked Function Expressions
Part III: Working with the DOM
Chapter 21 JS, The Browser, and The DOM
Chapter 22 Finding Elements in the DOM
Chapter 23 Modifying DOM Elements
Chapter 24 Styling Your Content
Chapter 25 Traversing the DOM
Chapter 26 Creating and Removing DOM Elements
Chapter 27 In-Browser Developer Tools
Part IV: Dealing with Events
Chapter 28 Events
Chapter 29 Event Bubbling and Capturing
Chapter 30 Mouse Events
Chapter 31 Keyboard Events
Chapter 32 Page Load Events and Other Stuff
Chapter 33 Handling Events for Multiple Elements
Chapter 34 Conclusion
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