Who knew how simple using JavaScript could be?
Make the most of JavaScript--even if you've never programmed anything before. JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide 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!
Here's a small sample of what you'll learn:
- 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 use 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
- Learn how to perform common string operations
- Use arrays to handle lists of data
- Learn to create custom objects
- Get up to speed on some of the big ES6 changes
JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide is a quick, easy-to-understand, light-hearted introduction to JavaScript for non-programmers.
- JavaScript has become a vital complement to HTML5 and CSS3 web development - any web designer or developer needs an understanding of at least basic JavaScript
- A new, easily accessible entry-level JavaScript tutorial for the reader with absolutely no programming background. Five new chapters plus a whole new section on Web Components
- Author's popular online site provides additional help and resources for the beginner
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