Make the most of today's JavaScript--even if you've never programmed
anything before. JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, Third 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!
Learn all this, and much more:
- Start fast with the basics: values, variables, functions,
conditionals, loops, closures, and more
- Create well-organized, 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
