Make the most of JavaScript -- even if you've never programmed anything before. This book is the fastest way to learn JavaScript and use it together with CSS3 and HTML5 to create powerful web and mobile experiences. Learn how to do what you want, the way you want, one incredibly easy step at a time. JavaScript has never been this simple!

This is the easiest, most practical beginner’s guide to programming JavaScript with simple, reliable instructions for doing everything you really want to do! Here’s a small sample of what you’ll learn:

Learn why JavaScript is awesome
Organize your code with variables
Understand how functions make your code reusable
Use the popular if/else statement to help make a decision in code
Learn about switch statements and when to use them
Work with for, while, and do...while loops
Learn how to use global and local scope
Understand what closures are
Learn about the various places your code can live
Understand how to write comments and good commenting practices
Learn about the basic types of objects you'll run into in JavaScript
Find out that pizza has an educational value beyond just being deliciously awesome
Understand how text is treated in JavaScript
Learn how to perform common string operations
Use arrays to handle lists of data
Learn to create custom objects

Purchase of JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide in any format includes free access to the online Web Edition, which provides several special features to help you learn:

The complete text of the book online
Short videos by the author introducing each chapter
Interactive quizzes to test your understanding of the material
Updates and corrections as they become available

This Web Edition can be viewed on all types of computers and mobile devices with any modern web browser that supports HTML5.

Contents at a Glance

1 Hello, World!

Part I: The Basic Stuff

2 Values and Variables

3 Functions

4 Conditional Statements: If, Else, and Switch

5 Meet the Loops: For, While, and Do…While!

6 Timers

7 Variable Scope

8 Closures

9 Where Should Your Code Live?

10 Commenting Your Code

Part II: It’s an Object-Oriented World

11 Of Pizza, Types, Primitives, and Objects

12 Strings

13 When Primitives Behave Like Objects

14 Arrays

15 Numbers

16 A Deeper Look at Objects

17 Extending Built-in Objects

18 Booleans and the Stricter === and !== Operators

19 Null and Undefined

20 Immediately Invoked Function Expressions

Part III: Working with the DOM

21 JS, The Browser, and The DOM

22 Finding Elements in the DOM

23 Modifying DOM Elements

24 Styling Your Content

25 Traversing the DOM

26 Creating a

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 (none as good as this one, of course!), 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 the Web more awesome as a Program Manager in Microsoft. In his non-waking hours, he is probably sleeping...or writing about himself in the third person.

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