Eloquent JavaScript (2nd edition)

Description

 

Eloquent JavaScript is a book providing an introduction to the JavaScript programming language and programming in general.

• Introduction
• Basic JavaScript: values, variables, and control flow
• Functions – an introduction to code that a program can go through whenever it wants. They can play the role of pure functions, algorithms, indirections, abstractions, decisions, modules, continuations, data structures, and more
• Data structures: Objects and Arrays – at the same time as solving a few simple problems, this chapter discusses arrays and objects, and examines some related techniques
• Error Handling
• Functional Programming – produces abstraction through clever ways of combining functions
• Searching – goes through the solution to two problems, discussing some interesting algorithms and techniques along the way
• Object-oriented Programming
• Modularity – deals with the process of organising programs
• Regular Expressions – a language for describing patterns in strings. They form a small, separate language, which is embedded inside JavaScript (and in various other programming languages)
• Web programming: A crash course – a quick, superficial introduction to the various elements that make the web work, and the way they relate to JavaScript
• The Document-Object Model
• Browser Events
• HTTP requests

 

Details

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Total pages:224
Author:    Marijn Haverbeke

Contents

1. Introduction

2. (Part 1: Language)Values, Types, and Operators

3. Program Structure
4. Functions
5. Data Structures: Objects and Arrays
6. Higher-order Functions
7. The Secret Life of Objects
8. Project: Electronic Life
9. Bugs and Error Handling
10. Regular Expressions
11. Modules
12. Project: A Programming Language

13. (Part 2: Browser)JavaScript and the Browser

14. The Document Object Model
15. Handling Events
16. Project: A Platform Game
17. Drawing on Canvas
18. HTTP
19. Forms and Form Fields
20. Project: A Paint Program

21. (Part 3: Node)Node.js

22. Project: Skill-Sharing Website

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License/Copyright

Licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license. All code in this book may also be considered licensed under an MIT license.