JavaScript from Beginner to Professional: Learn JavaScript quickly by building fun, interactive, and dynamic web apps, games, and pages
This book serves as a comprehensive guide for aspiring developers looking to master JavaScript, offering a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical application. It is designed to take readers from foundational concepts to professional-level skills through a project-based learning approach. The text covers essential programming topics such as logic statements, loops, functions, and classes, while also exploring advanced features like concurrency and asynchronous programming. By integrating over 100 exercises and projects, including a password checker and a hangman game, the book ensures that learners can actively apply what they study to build functional web applications. A significant portion of the content focuses on the interaction between JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to create dynamic and interactive web experiences. Readers will learn to manipulate the Document Object Model (DOM), validate data, and utilize the HTML5 Canvas for adding graphics and animations. The guide emphasizes writing eloquent code and solving common problems encountered in professional web development. It also provides a brief crash course on HTML and CSS to contextualize how JavaScript fits into the broader web ecosystem, ensuring a holistic understanding of front-end development. Targeted at beginners, students, and junior developers, this resource aims to build confidence in writing core JavaScript code before introducing more complex environments. It acts as a stepping stone for those preparing to work with popular frameworks and libraries such as React, Angular, and Node.js. By the end of the book, readers will have gained a solid understanding of how to structure scripts, process events efficiently, and create responsive web pages. The inclusion of practice exercises and self-check quizzes further reinforces the material, making it a practical tool for anyone transitioning into a career in web development.
About the Authors
Laurence Lars Svekis, Maaike van Putten, Rob Percival
