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Begin to Code with JavaScript, 1st edition

Published by Microsoft Press (September 13, 2021) © 2022

  • Rob Miles

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This full-color book will inspire beginner JavaScript learners to start solving problems and creating programs with JavaScript, even with absolutely no programming experience. It is not just friendly and easy: it is the first JavaScript guide for beginners that puts readers in control of their own learning and empowers them to build unique programs to solve problems they care about. Begin to Code with JavaScript is packed with innovations, including its "Snaps" library of pre-built operations that are easy to combine with their own unique programs, Cookie Cutter templates that give them a flying start, and "Make Something Happen" projects that help them build skills by creating their own programs.

  • The latest Microsoft title in its new series of full-color programming books, designed from the ground up to empower the beginners of today
  • By the author of Begin to Code with C# and Begin to Code with Python, the first guides for beginners to give you creative, hands-on input into how you learn a new programming language
  • Covers HTML and CSS, how JavaScript programs run, game creation, local and remote data storage, JavaScript frameworks, libraries, and more
  • Packed with "Make Something Happen" exercises to show off your growing skills and help you build original code
  • Reflects deep analysis of what has not worked in other guides for beginners, and innovative thinking about how to teach programming more effectively
  • A perfect complement to any other book or course on JavaScript

Part 1: The world of JavaScript

Chapter 1 Running JavaScript

Chapter 2 Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Chapter 3 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

 

Part 2: Coding with JavaScript

Chapter 4 Working with data

Chapter 5 Making decisions in programs

Chapter 6 Repeating actions in programs

Chapter 7 Creating functions

Chapter 8 Storing data

Chapter 9 Objects

 

Part 3: Useful JavaScript

Chapter 10 Advanced JavaScript

Chapter 11 Creating applications

Chapter 12 Creating games

Rob Miles spent more than 30 years teaching programming at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. He now runs a company promoting community uptake of computer technology. He's a Microsoft MVP with a passion for programming and creating new things. If he had any spare time, he'd spend it writing even more code. He loves building devices and then switching them on to see what they do. He reckons that programming is the most creative thing you can learn how to do. He claims to know a lot of really good jokes, but nobody has ever heard him tell one. If you want an insight into the Wacky Worldâ„¢ of Rob Miles, you can read his blog at www.robmiles. com and follow him on Twitter via @RobMiles.

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