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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

You're reading from  JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562523
Pages 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Laurence Lars Svekis Laurence Lars Svekis
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Maaike van Putten Maaike van Putten
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Codestars By Rob Percival Codestars By Rob Percival
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with JavaScript 2. JavaScript Essentials 3. JavaScript Multiple Values 4. Logic Statements 5. Loops 6. Functions 7. Classes 8. Built-In JavaScript Methods 9. The Document Object Model 10. Dynamic Element Manipulation Using the DOM 11. Interactive Content and Event Listeners 12. Intermediate JavaScript 13. Concurrency 14. HTML5, Canvas, and JavaScript 15. Next Steps 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix – Practice Exercise, Project, and Self-Check Quiz Answers

Loops

We are starting to get a good basic grasp of JavaScript. This chapter will focus on a very important control flow concept: loops. Loops execute a code block a certain number of times. We can use loops to do many things, such as repeating operations a number of times and iterating over data sets, arrays, and objects. Whenever you feel the need to copy a little piece of code and place it right underneath where you copied it from, you should probably be using a loop instead.

We will first discuss the basics of loops, then continue to discuss nesting loops, which is basically using loops inside loops. Also, we will explain looping over two complex constructs we have seen, arrays and objects. And finally, we will introduce two keywords related to loops, break and continue, to control the flow of the loop even more.

There is one topic that is closely related to loops that is not in this chapter. This is the built-in foreach method. We can use this method to loop over...

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