JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

Start your journey towards becoming a JavaScript developer with the help of more than 100 fun exercises and projects.

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format.

Key Features

• Write eloquent JavaScript and employ fundamental and advanced features to create your own web apps
• Interact with the browser with HTML and JavaScript, and add dynamic images, shapes, and text with HTML5 Canvas
• Build a password checker, paint web app, hangman game, and many more fun projects

Book Description

This book demonstrates the capabilities of JavaScript for web application development by combining theoretical learning with code exercises and fun projects that you can challenge yourself with. The guiding principle of the book is to show how straightforward JavaScript techniques can be used to make web apps ranging from dynamic websites to simple browser-based games.

JavaScript from Beginner to Professional focuses on key programming concepts and Document Object Model manipulations that are used to solve common problems in professional web applications. These include data validation, manipulating the appearance of web pages, working with asynchronous and concurrent code.

The book uses project-based learning to provide context for the theoretical components in a series of code examples that can be used as modules of an application, such as input validators, games, and simple animations. This will be supplemented with a brief crash course on HTML and CSS to illustrate how JavaScript components fit into a complete web application.

As you learn the concepts, you can try them in your own editor or browser console to get a solid understanding of how they work and what they do. By the end of this JavaScript book, you will feel confident writing core JavaScript code and be equipped to progress to more advanced libraries, frameworks, and environments such as React, Angular, and Node.js.

What you will learn

• Use logic statements to make decisions within your code
• Save time with JavaScript loops by avoiding writing the same code repeatedly
• Use JavaScript functions and methods to selectively execute code
• Connect to HTML5 elements and bring your own web pages to life with interactive content
• Make your search patterns more effective with regular expressions
• Explore concurrency and asynchronous programming to process events efficiently and improve performance
• Get a head start on your next steps with primers on key libraries, frameworks, and APIs

Who this book is for

This book is for people who are new to JavaScript (JS) or those looking to build up their skills in web development. Basic familiarity with HTML & CSS would be beneficial.

Whether you are a junior or intermediate developer who needs an easy-to-understand practical guide for JS concepts, a developer who wants to transition into working with JS, or a student studying programming concepts using JS, this book will prove helpful.

Table of Contents

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. Appendix – Practice Exercise, Project, and Self-Check Quiz Answers

Laurence Lars Svekis is an experienced web developer and best-selling course creator on Udemy with over 700,000 students. Having authored over 300 web development courses, Laurence regularly produces content to address student needs and real-world requirements for web development.

Maaike van Putten is an experienced software developer and Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, and Bright Boost instructor. She has a passion for software development and helping others get to the next level in their career.

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.