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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

Concepts

Web Programming

Authors (3):

Laurence Lars Svekis

Maaike van Putten

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

Chapter 1, Getting Started with JavaScript

Practice exercises

Practice exercise 1.1

4 + 10
14
console.log("Laurence");
Laurence
undefined

Practice exercise 1.2

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
  <title>Tester</title>
</head>
 
<body>
  <script>
    console.log("hello world");
  </script>
</body>
 
</html>

Practice exercise 1.3

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
  <title>Tester</title>
</head>
 
<body>
  <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
 
</html>

Practice exercise 1.4

let a = 10; // assign a value of 10 to variable a
console.log(a); // This will output 10 into the console
/*
This is a multi-line
Comment
*/

Projects

Creating an HTML file and a linked JavaScript file

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>JS Tester</title>
  </head>
...

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Authors (3)

Laurence Lars Svekis

Laurence Svekis is an experienced web application developer. He has worked on multiple enterprise-level applications, hundreds of websites, business solutions, and many unique and innovative web applications. He has expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, and MySQL and is also passionate about web technologies, web application development, programming, and online marketing with a strong focus on social media and SEO. He is always willing to help his students experience what technology has to offer and looks forward to sharing his knowledge and experiences with the world.

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Maaike van Putten

Maaike is a software consultant and trainer with a passion for sharing her expertise to empower others in their careers. Her love for software development shows in the numerous software development projects she participated in and the many certifications she obtained. She has designed and delivered a broad spectrum of training courses catering to beginners and seasoned developers in Java, Python, C# and many other languages and frameworks. Next to that, she has authored multiple books and online courses through multiple platforms reaching over 500,000 learners across the globe.

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Codestars By Rob Percival

Rob Percival is a highly regarded web developer and Udemy instructor with over 1.7 million students. Over 500,000 of them have taken Rob's Complete Web Developer Course 2.0, as well as his Android Developer and iOS Developer courses.

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