JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide

by Kirupa Chinnathambi  (Author)



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

Contents at a Glance

1 Hello, World!

Part I: The Basic Stuff
2 Values and Variables
3 Functions
4 Conditional Statements: If, Else, and Switch
5 Meet the Loops: For, While, and Do…While!
6 Timers
7 Variable Scope
8 Closures
9 Where Should Your Code Live?
10 Commenting Your Code

Part II: It’s an Object-Oriented World
11 Of Pizza, Types, Primitives, and Objects
12 Strings
13 When Primitives Behave Like Objects
14 Arrays
15 Numbers
16 A Deeper Look at Objects
17 Extending Built-in Objects
18 Booleans and the Stricter === and !== Operators
19 Null and Undefined
20 Immediately Invoked Function Expressions

Part III: Working with the DOM
21 JS, The Browser, and The DOM
22 Finding Elements in the DOM
23 Modifying DOM Elements
24 Styling Your Content
25 Traversing the DOM
26 Creating and Removing DOM Elements
27 In-Browser Developer Tools

Part IV: Dealing with Events
28 Events
29 Event Bubbling and Capturing
30 Mouse Events
31 Keyboard Events
32 Page Load Events and Other Stuff
33 Handling Events for Multiple Elements
34 Conclusion

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