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Web Developer's Reference Guide

You're reading from   Web Developer's Reference Guide A one-stop guide to the essentials of web development including popular frameworks such as jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS, and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783552139
Length 838 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. HTML Elements FREE CHAPTER 2. HTML Attributes 3. CSS Concepts and Applications 4. CSS Properties – Part 1 5. CSS Properties – Part 2 6. CSS Properties – Part 3 7. CSS Functions 8. JavaScript Implementations, Syntax Basics, and Variable Types 9. JavaScript Expressions, Operators, Statements, and Arrays 10. JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming 11. Extending JavaScript and ECMAScript 6 12. Server-side JavaScript – NodeJS 13. Bootstrap – The Stylish CSS Frontend Framework 14. jQuery – The Popular JavaScript Library 15. AngularJS – Google's In-Demand Framework Index

The language syntax


The language syntax is basically a means of communication. In a programming language, it's a formal way of communicating with algorithms, from both algorithms to programmer and programmer to machine. This is because a machine works on given instructions.

These instructions are meant to be written in a specific format, so that a machine could understand and compile it properly. That specific format is defined by some general rules of a programming language, known as language syntax.

A computer contains a list of instructions to be executed. Every computer language has different syntax and rules. To use different languages, we must have knowledge of their language syntax, such as the following:

  • Syntax (a set of symbols and rules)

  • Semantics (for transforming term to term)

  • Pragmatics (the particular construct of a language)

Similarly, other languages in JavaScript have a unique syntax. JavaScript is not a language of Java; these are two different languages and the syntaxes for...

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