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JavaScript Absolute Beginner’s Guide

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JavaScript Absolute Beginner’s Guide

No experience necessary!

Make the most of JavaScript — although you’ve never programmed anything before. This book is the fastest way to learn JavaScript and use it along with CSS3 and HTML5 to create powerful web and mobile experiences. Learn how to do what you need, the way you need, 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 actually 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 observation to help decide in code
  • Learn about switch statements and when to use them
  • Work with for, Even as, and do…Even as loops
  • Learn how to use global and local scope 
  • Understand what closures are 
  • Learn about the quite a lot of places your code can live 
  • Understand how to write comments and good commenting practices
  • Learn about the basic types of objects you can 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 creator 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.

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, Even as, and Do…Even as!
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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