Begin to code with JavaScript

Begin to code with JavaScript

Rob Miles

Book - 2022

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Subjects
JavaScript (Computer program language)
Published
[Upper Saddle River, New Jersey] : Published with the authorization of Microsoft Corporation by Pearson Education, Inc [2022]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Microsoft Corporation
Main Author
Rob Miles (author)
Corporate Author
Microsoft Corporation (contributor)
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
xix, 491 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN
9780136870722
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. The world of JavaScript
  • 1. Running JavaScript
  • What is JavaScript?
  • JavaScript origins
  • JavaScript and the web browser
  • Our first brush with JavaScript
  • Tools
  • Getting Git
  • Getting Visual Studio Code
  • Getting the sample files
  • Working on files with Visual Studio Code
  • What you have learned
  • 2. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
  • HTML and the World Wide Web
  • Fetching web pages
  • What is HTML?
  • Display symbols
  • Lay out text in paragraphs
  • Create headings
  • Use preformatted text
  • Add comments to documents
  • Add images to web pages
  • The HTML document
  • Linking HTML documents
  • Making active web pages
  • Using a button
  • Reading input from a user
  • Display text output
  • Egg timer
  • Adding sound to the egg timer
  • Controlling audio playback
  • An image display program
  • What you have learned
  • 3. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • Putting on the style
  • Splashing some color
  • Work with fonts
  • Text alignment
  • Make a ticking clock
  • Create a ticking clock
  • Margins around text
  • Creating style classes
  • Formatting parts of a document using and
  • Cascading styles
  • Color highlighting using selectors
  • What you have learned
  • Part 2. Coding with JavaScript
  • 4. Working with data
  • Computers as data processors
  • Programs as data processors
  • JavaScript as a data processor
  • Process data with expressions
  • Data and information
  • Variables in programs
  • JavaScript identifiers
  • Performing calculations
  • Whole numbers and real numbers
  • Real numbers and floating-point numbers
  • Creating random dice
  • Working with text
  • JavaScript string delimiters
  • Escape sequences in strings
  • Working with strings and numbers
  • Converting strings into numbers
  • Make an adding machine
  • Making applications
  • Calculating a pizza order
  • Converting between Fahrenheit and centigrade
  • Adding comments
  • Global and local variables
  • Global variables
  • What you have learned
  • 4. Making decisions in programs
  • Boolean thinking
  • Boolean values in JavaScript
  • Boolean expressions
  • Logical operators
  • The if construction
  • Adding an else part
  • Use decisions to make an application
  • Build the user interface
  • Add the code
  • Using the switch construction
  • What you have learned
  • 6. Repeating actions in programs
  • App development
  • Adding data attributes to HTML elements
  • Using an unordered list as a container
  • The JavaScript for loop
  • Work through collections using for-of
  • Building web pages from code
  • Deleting elements from a document
  • What you have learned
  • 7. Creating functions
  • What makes a function?
  • Give information to functions
  • Arguments and parameters
  • Multiple parameters in a function
  • Using references as function arguments
  • Arrays of arguments
  • Returning values from function calls
  • Add error handling to an application
  • Local variables in JavaScript functions
  • What you have learned
  • 8. Storing data
  • Collections of data
  • Ice Cream Sales
  • Creating an array
  • Processing data in an array
  • Build a user interface
  • Arrays as lookup tables
  • Creating fixed with layouts
  • What you have learned
  • 9. Objects
  • Make a tiny contacts app
  • Prototype HTML
  • Prototype style sheet
  • Prototype JavaScript
  • Storing contact details
  • Finding contacts
  • Displaying contacts
  • Saving a contact
  • Finding a contact
  • Use an object to store contact details
  • Use an object in the Tiny Contacts program
  • Store data in JavaScript local storage
  • Use JSON to encode object data
  • Use property accessors
  • Use a data schema
  • Build HTML from a schema
  • Build a data object from a schema
  • Improving the user interface
  • Add "Super Search" to Tiny Contacts
  • What you have learned
  • Part 3. Useful JavaScript
  • 10. Advanced JavaScript
  • Manage errors with exceptions
  • Catching exceptions
  • Class design
  • Fashion Shop application
  • Object-oriented design
  • Store data in a class hierarchy
  • Add a method to give an object a behavior
  • Overriding methods in subclasses
  • Static class members
  • Data storage
  • Build a user interface
  • Exploring the Fashion Shop application
  • What you have learned
  • 11. Creating applications
  • Data analysis
  • Fashion Shop stock list
  • Fashion Shop data analysis
  • Work with array methods
  • Read the weather
  • Fetch data from a server
  • Node.js
  • Create a web server with Node.js
  • Node package manager
  • Deploying a Node.js server
  • What you have learned
  • 12. Creating games
  • Use the HTML Canvas
  • Canvas coordinates
  • Computer art
  • Draw images on a canvas
  • Animate images
  • Control gameplay
  • Window events
  • Control object position with a keyboard
  • Use keydown and keyup events
  • Create game objects
  • Game sprites
  • The game object
  • Starting the game
  • Add a cheese sprite
  • Add a Cracker sprite
  • Add lots of crackers
  • Catch the crackers
  • Add sound
  • Adding scores
  • Add a killer tomato
  • Create timed sprites
  • Complete the game
  • Add a start screen
  • Start the game running
  • What you have learned
  • Index

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