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Sonyl Nagale
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Chicago-born, Iowa-raised, Los Angeles-seasoned, and now New York City-flavored, Sonyl Nagale started his career as a graphic designer focusing on web, which led down the slippery slope to becoming a full-stack technologist instead. With an eye toward the client use case and conversation with the creative side, he prides himself on taking a holistic approach to software engineering. Having worked at start-ups and global media companies using a variety of languages and frameworks, he likes solving new and novel challenges. Passionate about education, he's always excited to have great teachable moments complete with laughter and seeing the Aha! moments in students eyes.
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Arrays and sets

Any programming language has some conception of an array or a collection of items that all share some common features or use. JavaScript has a few of them: arrays and sets. Both of these structures contain items, and in many ways, they are similar in usage, too, in that they can be enumerated, iterated over, and displayed for purposes of logical construction.

Let's first look at arrays.

Arrays

Arrays can contain different data types. This is a fully viable array:

const myArray = ['hello',1,'goodbye',null,true,1,'hello',{ 0 : 1 }]

It contains strings, numbers, Booleans, null, and an object. This is fine! While in practice you may not be mixing data types, there's nothing preventing you from doing so.

There is a quirk about using typeof() on arrays: since they're not true primitives, typeof(myArray) will return object. You should keep that in mind as you write JavaScript.

As we saw before in Chapter 3, Nitty-Gritty Grammar, ...

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Sonyl Nagale

Chicago-born, Iowa-raised, Los Angeles-seasoned, and now New York City-flavored, Sonyl Nagale started his career as a graphic designer focusing on web, which led down the slippery slope to becoming a full-stack technologist instead. With an eye toward the client use case and conversation with the creative side, he prides himself on taking a holistic approach to software engineering. Having worked at start-ups and global media companies using a variety of languages and frameworks, he likes solving new and novel challenges. Passionate about education, he's always excited to have great teachable moments complete with laughter and seeing the Aha! moments in students eyes.
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