Javascript Absolute Beginner's Guide, Third Edition: (Absolute Beginner's Guide)

Make the most of today's JavaScript even if you've never programmed anything before. JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, 3rd Edition is the fastest way to learn JavaScript, starting with the basics and gradually going deeper and broader into all the techniques you need to begin building highly scalable, performant web apps and experiences. Do what you want, the way you want, one incredibly easy step at a time! Samples Preview sample pages from JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, 3rd Edition > Learn all this, and much more: Start fast with the basics: values, variables, functions, conditionals, loops, closures, and more Create well-organised, clear code that's easy to reuse and improve Learn proven best practices to build web apps that scale with outstanding performance Make the most of powerful object-oriented techniques to build complex, extensible apps Wrangle data like a pro by learning how to use the popular JSON standard, arrays, web storage, and more Translate your ideas into visually compelling and interactive content by learning how to work with the DOM Identify and fix issues quickly by learning how to use the in-browser development tools Understand the ins and outs of events and how you can use them to react to actions the user or the page will perform Learn how to ensure your code runs lightning-fast with extra coverage of performance optimizations and techniques you can use Learn the basics that set you up to more quickly use modern web frameworks like React, Vue, Next.js, and Nuxt Explore advanced features such as object destructuring, making web requests, the class syntax, accessing your webcam, variable hoisting, and more Get up-to-speed on the latest JavaScript enhancements proposed by the EcmaScript standard

Table of Contents:
1 Hello, World! I The Basic Stuff 2 Values and Variables 3 Functions 4 Conditional Statements: if, else, and switch 5 Looping with for, while, and do…while! 6 Commenting Your Code…FTW! 7 Timers 8 Variable Scope 9 Closures 10 Where Should Your Code Live? 11 Console Logging Basics II It's an Object-Oriented World 12 Of Pizza, Types, Primitives, and Objects 13 Arrays 14 Strings 15 Combining Strings and Variables 16 When Primitives Behave Like Objects 17 Numbers 18 Getters and Setters 19 A Deeper Look at Objects 20 Using Classes 21 Extending Built-in Objects 22 Arrow Functions 23 Making Sense of this and More 24 Booleans and the Stricter 25 Null and Undefined 26 All About JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) III Working with the DOM 27 JS, the Browser, and the DOM 28 Finding Elements in the DOM 29 Modifying DOM Elements 30 Styling Our Content 31 Using CSS Custom Properties 32 Traversing the DOM 33 Creating and Removing DOM Elements 34 Quickly Adding Many Elements into the DOM 35 In-Browser Developer Tools IV Dealing with Events 36 Events 37 Event Bubbling and Capturing 38 Mouse Events 39 Keyboard Events 40 Page Load Events and Other Stuff 41 Loading Script Files Dynamically 42 Handling Events for Multiple Elements V Totally Useful Topics that Only Make Sense Now 43 Using Emojis in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript 44 Making HTTP/Web Requests in JavaScript 45 Accessing the Webcam 46 Array and Object Destructuring 47 Storing Data Using Web Storage 48 Variable and Function Hoisting 49 Working with Sets. 50 Conclusion Glossary

About the Author :
Kirupa Chinnathambi has spent most of his life trying to teach others to love web development as much as he does. In 1999, before blogging was even a word, he started posting tutorials on kirupa.com. In the years since then, he has written hundreds of articles, written a few books, and recorded a bunch of videos you can find on YouTube. When he isn't writing or talking about web development, he spends his waking hours helping make developers happy and productive as a Product Manager at Google.