JavaScript Absolute Beginner's Guide, Third Edition

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

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 developers happy and productive as a Product Manager at Google. In his nonwaking hours, he is probably sleeping, joining Meena in running after their daughter Akira, protecting himself from Pixel (aka a T-rex in an unassuming cat's body)…or writing about himself in the third person.

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